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Chart visualizations, while essential for data interpretation and communication, are predominantly accessible only as images in PDFs, lacking source data tables and stylistic information. To enable effective editing of charts in PDFs or…

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Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities across various language tasks, notably through instruction-tuning methods. However, LLMs face challenges in visualizing complex, real-world data through charts and plots.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Fatemeh Pesaran Zadeh , Juyeon Kim , Jin-Hwa Kim , Gunhee Kim

Code editing encompasses a variety of pragmatic tasks that developers deal with daily. Despite its relevance and practical usefulness, automatic code editing remains an underexplored area in the evolution of deep learning models, partly due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Kaixin Li , Qisheng Hu , Xu Zhao , Hui Chen , Yuxi Xie , Tiedong Liu , Qizhe Xie , Junxian He

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in code generation across various domains. However, their ability to replicate complex, multi-panel visualizations from real-world data remains largely unassessed. To…

In this study, we address the growing issue of misleading charts, a prevalent problem that undermines the integrity of information dissemination. Misleading charts can distort the viewer's perception of data, leading to misinterpretations…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Leo Yu-Ho Lo , Huamin Qu

Generating diverse, readable statistical charts from tabular data remains challenging for LLMs, as many failures become apparent after rendering and are not detectable from data or code alone. Existing chart datasets also rarely provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Pavlin G. Poličar , Andraž Pevcin , Blaž Zupan

Chart understanding is a quintessential information fusion task, requiring the seamless integration of graphical and textual data to extract meaning. The advent of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has revolutionized this domain, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Zhihang Yi , Jian Zhao , Jiancheng Lv , Tao Wang

Instructed code editing, where LLMs directly modify a developer's existing code based on a user instruction, is becoming a widely used interaction mode in AI coding assistants. However, few benchmarks directly evaluate this capability and…

Charts are the dominant medium for visualizing data, discovering patterns and trends, and communicating data driven insights, yet designing them still requires expensive human effort and expertise, such as selecting appropriate chart types,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mohammed Afaan Ansari , Aniruddh Bansal , Tianyi Zhou

Chart descriptions are essential for accessibility, cross-modal retrieval, and assisting readers in extracting insights from complex visualizations. As multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly adopted for automated chart…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Fen Wang , Zekai Shao , Qiman Kang , Chunran Hu , Zhixuan Zhang , Lexu Xie , Chao Liu , Siming Chen

Chart understanding presents a unique challenge for large vision-language models (LVLMs), as it requires the integration of sophisticated textual and visual reasoning capabilities. However, current LVLMs exhibit a notable imbalance between…

Despite the ability to train capable LLMs, the methodology for maintaining their relevancy and rectifying errors remains elusive. To this end, the past few years have witnessed a surge in techniques for editing LLMs, the objective of which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yunzhi Yao , Peng Wang , Bozhong Tian , Siyuan Cheng , Zhoubo Li , Shumin Deng , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) for code are increasingly used in software development, but they remain static after pretraining while APIs and software libraries continue to evolve. Model editing offers a lightweight alternative to retraining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Vinaik Chhetri , Moghis Fereidouni , A. B Siddique , Umar Farooq

Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated increasingly impressive performance in chart understanding, most of them exhibit alarming hallucinations and significant performance degradation when handling non-annotated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xiao Zhang , Dongyuan Li , Liuyu Xiang , Yao Zhang , Cheng Zhong , Zhaofeng He

Recent studies customizing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for domain-specific tasks have yielded promising results, especially in the field of scientific chart comprehension. These studies generally utilize visual instruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Wan-Cyuan Fan , Yen-Chun Chen , Mengchen Liu , Lu Yuan , Leonid Sigal

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have garnered significant attention for their strong visual-semantic understanding. Most existing chart benchmarks evaluate MLLMs' ability to parse information from charts to answer questions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xiangnan Chen , Yuancheng Fang , Qian Xiao , Juncheng Li , Jun Lin , Siliang Tang , Yi Yang , Yueting Zhuang

A number of tasks have been proposed recently to facilitate easy access to charts such as chart QA and summarization. The dominant paradigm to solve these tasks has been to fine-tune a pretrained model on the task data. However, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Xuan Long Do , Mohammad Hassanpour , Ahmed Masry , Parsa Kavehzadeh , Enamul Hoque , Shafiq Joty

Chart editing reduces manual effort in visualization design. Typical benchmarks limited in data diversity and assume access to complete chart code, which is seldom in real-world scenarios. To address this gap, we present ChartEditVista, a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Liangyu Chen , Yichen Xu , Jianzhe Ma , Yuqi Liu , Donglu Yang , Liang Zhang , Wenxuan Wang , Qin Jin

Recent progress in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has enabled step-by-step multi-modal mathematical reasoning by performing visual operations based on the textual instructions. A promising approach uses code as an intermediate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Xiaoyuan Li , Moxin Li , Wenjie Wang , Rui Men , Yichang Zhang , Fuli Feng , Dayiheng Liu

Multi-modal large language models have demonstrated impressive performances on most vision-language tasks. However, the model generally lacks the understanding capabilities for specific domain data, particularly when it comes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yucheng Han , Chi Zhang , Xin Chen , Xu Yang , Zhibin Wang , Gang Yu , Bin Fu , Hanwang Zhang