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We present a new dataset for chart question answering (CQA) constructed from visualization notebooks. The dataset features real-world, multi-view charts paired with natural language questions grounded in analytical narratives. Unlike prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Maeve Hutchinson , Radu Jianu , Aidan Slingsby , Jo Wood , Pranava Madhyastha

Documents are fundamental to preserving and disseminating information, often incorporating complex layouts, tables, and charts that pose significant challenges for automatic document understanding (DU). While vision-language large models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Negar Foroutan , Angelika Romanou , Matin Ansaripour , Julian Martin Eisenschlos , Karl Aberer , Rémi Lebret

We introduce InterChart, a diagnostic benchmark that evaluates how well vision-language models (VLMs) reason across multiple related charts, a task central to real-world applications such as scientific reporting, financial analysis, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Anirudh Iyengar Kaniyar Narayana Iyengar , Srija Mukhopadhyay , Adnan Qidwai , Shubhankar Singh , Dan Roth , Vivek Gupta

Charts are widely used to present complex information. Deriving meaningful insights in real-world contexts often requires interpreting multiple related charts together. Research on understanding multi-chart images has not been extensively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Azher Ahmed Efat , Seok Hwan Song , Wallapak Tavanapong

Charts are ubiquitous as they help people understand and reason with data. Recently, various downstream tasks, such as chart question answering, chart2text, and fact-checking, have emerged. Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) show promise…

Chart question answering (CQA) is a crucial area of Visual Language Understanding. However, the robustness and consistency of current Visual Language Models (VLMs) in this field remain under-explored. This paper evaluates state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Srija Mukhopadhyay , Adnan Qidwai , Aparna Garimella , Pritika Ramu , Vivek Gupta , Dan Roth

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

Visually-situated languages such as charts and plots are omnipresent in real-world documents. These graphical depictions are human-readable and are often analyzed in visually-rich documents to address a variety of questions that necessitate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Anran Wu , Luwei Xiao , Xingjiao Wu , Shuwen Yang , Junjie Xu , Zisong Zhuang , Nian Xie , Cheng Jin , Liang He

The emergence of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) presents new opportunities for chart understanding. However, due to the fine-grained nature of these tasks, applying MLLMs typically requires large, high-quality datasets for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yifan Wu , Lutao Yan , Leixian Shen , Yinan Mei , Jiannan Wang , Yuyu Luo

Charts provide visual representations of data and are widely used for analyzing information, addressing queries, and conveying insights to others. Various chart-related downstream tasks have emerged recently, such as question-answering and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Ahmed Masry , Mehrad Shahmohammadi , Md Rizwan Parvez , Enamul Hoque , Shafiq Joty

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

Understanding infographic charts with design-driven visual elements (e.g., pictograms, icons) requires both visual recognition and reasoning, posing challenges for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, existing visual-question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Tianchi Xie , Minzhi Lin , Mengchen Liu , Yilin Ye , Changjian Chen , Shixia Liu

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has unlocked great opportunities in complex data management tasks, particularly in question answering (QA) over complicated multi-table relational data. Despite significant progress, systematically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zipeng Qiu , You Peng , Guangxin He , Binhang Yuan , Chen Wang

Natural language is a powerful complementary modality of communication for data visualizations, such as bar and line charts. To facilitate chart-based reasoning using natural language, various downstream tasks have been introduced recently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Mohammed Saidul Islam , Raian Rahman , Ahmed Masry , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Mir Tafseer Nayeem , Enamul Hoque

In recent years, multimodal benchmarks for general domains have guided the rapid development of multimodal models on general tasks. However, the financial field has its peculiarities. It features unique graphical images (e.g., candlestick…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Ziliang Gan , Yu Lu , Dong Zhang , Haohan Li , Che Liu , Jian Liu , Ji Liu , Haipang Wu , Chaoyou Fu , Zenglin Xu , Rongjunchen Zhang , Yong Dai

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in multimodal understanding, yet their capabilities for scientific reasoning remain inadequately assessed. Current multimodal benchmarks predominantly evaluate generic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ai Jian , Weijie Qiu , Xiaokun Wang , Peiyu Wang , Yunzhuo Hao , Jiangbo Pei , Yichen Wei , Yi Peng , Xuchen Song

Chart question answering (CQA) is a task used for assessing chart comprehension, which is fundamentally different from understanding natural images. CQA requires analyzing the relationships between the textual and the visual components of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Matan Levy , Rami Ben-Ari , Dani Lischinski

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) highlight the need for benchmarks that rigorously evaluate structured chart comprehension. Chart grounding refers to the bidirectional alignment between a chart's visual appearance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xinhang Li , Jingbo Zhou , Pengfei Luo , Yixiong Xiao , Tong Xu

Solving complex chart Q&A tasks requires advanced visual reasoning abilities in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), including recognizing key information from visual inputs and conducting reasoning over it. While fine-tuning MLLMs for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wei He , Zhiheng Xi , Wanxu Zhao , Xiaoran Fan , Yiwen Ding , Zifei Shan , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly popularized in the multilingual world, ensuring hallucination-free factuality becomes markedly crucial. However, existing benchmarks for evaluating the reliability of Multimodal Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yexing Du , Kaiyuan Liu , Youcheng Pan , Zheng Chu , Bo Yang , Xiaocheng Feng , Ming Liu , Yang Xiang