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Many real-world tasks require an agent to reason jointly over text and visual objects, (e.g., navigating in public spaces), which we refer to as context-sensitive text-rich visual reasoning. Specifically, these tasks require an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Rohan Wadhawan , Hritik Bansal , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng

Given the ubiquity of charts as a data analysis, visualization, and decision-making tool across industries and sciences, there has been a growing interest in developing pre-trained foundation models as well as general purpose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ahmed Masry , Megh Thakkar , Aayush Bajaj , Aaryaman Kartha , Enamul Hoque , Shafiq Joty

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have become a powerful tool for integrating visual and textual information. Despite their exceptional performance on visual understanding benchmarks, measuring their ability to reason abstractly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Nilay Yilmaz , Maitreya Patel , Yiran Lawrence Luo , Tejas Gokhale , Chitta Baral , Suren Jayasuriya , Yezhou Yang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently demonstrated strong efficacy as visual assistants that can parse natural queries about the visual content and generate human-like outputs. In this work, we explore the ability of these models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yangyi Chen , Karan Sikka , Michael Cogswell , Heng Ji , Ajay Divakaran

The frequent need for analysts to create visualizations to derive insights from data has driven extensive research into the generation of natural Language to Visualization (NL2VIS). While recent progress in large language models (LLMs)…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Xinyu Wang , Chenwei Liang , Shunyuan Zheng , Jinyuan Liang , Guozheng Li , Yu Zhang , Chi Harold Liu

Humans develop perception through a bottom-up hierarchy: from basic primitives and Gestalt principles to high-level semantics. In contrast, current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are trained directly on complex downstream tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jen-Tse Huang , Dasen Dai , Jen-Yuan Huang , Youliang Yuan , Xiaoyuan Liu , Wenxuan Wang , Wenxiang Jiao , Pinjia He , Zhaopeng Tu , Haodong Duan

This paper introduces Code-Vision, a benchmark designed to evaluate the logical understanding and code generation capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). It challenges MLLMs to generate a correct program that fulfills…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Hanbin Wang , Xiaoxuan Zhou , Zhipeng Xu , Keyuan Cheng , Yuxin Zuo , Kai Tian , Jingwei Song , Junting Lu , Wenhui Hu , Xueyang Liu

Data visualization principles, derived from decades of research in design and perception, ensure proper visual communication. While prior work has shown that large language models (LLMs) can generate charts or flag misleading figures, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Martin Sinnona , Valentin Bonas , Viviana Siless , Emmanuel Iarussi

Although multimodal large language models (MLLMs) show promise in generating chart rendering code, editing charts via code presents a greater challenge. This task demands MLLMs to integrate chart understanding and reasoning capacities,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xuanle Zhao , Xuexin Liu , Haoyue Yang , Xianzhen Luo , Fanhu Zeng , Jianling Li , Qi Shi , Chi Chen

This paper introduces the novel task of multimodal puzzle solving, framed within the context of visual question-answering. We present a new dataset, AlgoPuzzleVQA designed to challenge and evaluate the capabilities of multimodal language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Deepanway Ghosal , Vernon Toh Yan Han , Chia Yew Ken , Soujanya Poria

Chart question-answering (QA) benchmarks aim to pose questions that require visual reasoning to correctly answer, but models can often reach solutions through shortcuts or prior familiarity with a chart based on their own background…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yifan Jiang , Dae Yon Hwang , Jesse C. Cresswell , Freda Shi

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in complex multimodal tasks. However, these models still suffer from hallucinations, particularly when required to implicitly recognize or infer diverse visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Ashish Seth , Dinesh Manocha , Chirag Agarwal

Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multimodal perception capabilities, garnering significant attention. While numerous evaluation studies have emerged, assessing LVLMs both holistically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Hong-Tao Yu , Yuxin Peng , Serge Belongie , Xiu-Shen Wei

Multimodal Vision Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as a transformative topic at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, enabling machines to perceive and reason about the world through both visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zongxia Li , Xiyang Wu , Hongyang Du , Fuxiao Liu , Huy Nghiem , Guangyao Shi

Data visualizations like charts are fundamental tools for quantitative analysis and decision-making across fields, requiring accurate interpretation and mathematical reasoning. The emergence of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Anku Rani , Aparna Garimella , Apoorv Saxena , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan , Paul Pu Liang

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has significantly broadened the scope of applications in natural language processing, with multi-modal LLMs extending these capabilities to integrate and interpret visual data. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Bingchen Zhao , Yongshuo Zong , Letian Zhang , Timothy Hospedales

The rapid progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has unlocked the potential for enhanced 3D scene understanding and spatial reasoning. A recent line of work explores learning spatial reasoning directly from multi-view images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Kanghee Lee , Injae Lee , Minseok Kwak , Jungi Hong , Kwonyoung Ryu , Jaesik Park

Imagine observing someone scratching their arm; to understand why, additional context would be necessary. However, spotting a mosquito nearby would immediately offer a likely explanation for the person's discomfort, thereby alleviating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Nitzan Bitton-Guetta , Aviv Slobodkin , Aviya Maimon , Eliya Habba , Royi Rassin , Yonatan Bitton , Idan Szpektor , Amir Globerson , Yuval Elovici

Recent advances in CoT reasoning and RL post-training have been reported to enhance video reasoning capabilities of MLLMs. This progress naturally raises a question: can these models perform complex video reasoning in a manner comparable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Junhao Cheng , Yuying Ge , Teng Wang , Yixiao Ge , Jing Liao , Ying Shan

MLLMs MLLMs are beginning to appear in clinical workflows, but their ability to perform complex medical reasoning remains unclear. We present Med-CMR, a fine-grained Medical Complex Multimodal Reasoning benchmark. Med-CMR distinguishes from…