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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

Understanding data visualizations like charts and plots requires reasoning about both visual elements and numerics. Although strong in extractive questions, current chart visual question answering (chart VQA) models suffer on complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Zhuowan Li , Bhavan Jasani , Peng Tang , Shabnam Ghadar

Recent works focus on synthesizing Chart Understanding (ChartU) training sets to inject advanced chart knowledge into Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), where the sufficiency of the knowledge is typically verified by quantifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jiapeng Liu , Liang Li , Bing Li , Peng Fu , Xiyan Gao , Chengyang Fang , Xiaoshuai Hao , Can Ma

Text documents with numerical values involved are widely used in various applications such as scientific research, economy, public health and journalism. However, it is difficult for readers to quickly interpret such data-involved texts and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Songheng Zhang , Lei Wang , Toby Jia-Jun Li , Qiaomu Shen , Yixin Cao , Yong Wang

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…

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for chart comprehension. However, they heavily rely on extracted content via OCR, which leads to numerical hallucinations when chart textual annotations are sparse.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhengzhuo Xu , SiNan Du , Yiyan Qi , SiwenLu , Chengjin Xu , Chun Yuan , Jian Guo

Current multimodal large language models (MLLMs), while effective in natural image understanding, struggle with visualization understanding due to their inability to decode the data-to-visual mapping and extract structured information. To…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Can Liu , Chunlin Da , Xiaoxiao Long , Yuxiao Yang , Yu Zhang , Yong Wang

Chart-to-code reconstruction -- the task of recovering executable plotting scripts from chart images -- provides important insights into a model's ability to ground data visualizations in precise, machine-readable form. Yet many existing…

The rise of Visual-Language Models (LVLMs) has unlocked new possibilities for seamlessly integrating visual and textual information. However, their ability to interpret cartographic maps remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Huy Quang Ung , Guillaume Habault , Yasutaka Nishimura , Hao Niu , Roberto Legaspi , Tomoki Oya , Ryoichi Kojima , Masato Taya , Chihiro Ono , Atsunori Minamikawa , Yan Liu

Complex chart understanding tasks demand advanced visual recognition and reasoning capabilities from multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, current research provides limited coverage of complex chart scenarios and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Duo Xu , Hao Cheng , Xin Lin , Zhen Xie , Hao Wang

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

Although great progress has been made by previous table understanding methods including recent approaches based on large language models (LLMs), they rely heavily on the premise that given tables must be converted into a certain text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Mingyu Zheng , Xinwei Feng , Qingyi Si , Qiaoqiao She , Zheng Lin , Wenbin Jiang , Weiping Wang

Recent large vision-language models (LVLMs) for video understanding are primarily fine-tuned with various videos scraped from online platforms. Existing datasets, such as ActivityNet, require considerable human labor for structuring and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhende Song , Chenchen Wang , Jiamu Sheng , Chi Zhang , Shengji Tang , Jiayuan Fan , Tao Chen

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

Recent multimodal LLMs have shown promise in chart-based visual question answering, but their performance declines sharply on unannotated charts-those requiring precise visual interpretation rather than relying on textual shortcuts. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Rachneet Kaur , Nishan Srishankar , Zhen Zeng , Sumitra Ganesh , Manuela Veloso

This paper proposes LayoutLLM, a more flexible document analysis method for understanding imaged documents. Visually Rich Document Understanding tasks, such as document image classification and information extraction, have gained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Masato Fujitake

The widespread use of charts and infographics as a means of data visualization in various domains has inspired recent research in automated chart understanding. However, information extraction from chart images is a complex multitasked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Osama Mustafa , Muhammad Khizer Ali , Momina Moetesum , Imran Siddiqi

Charts are high-density visualization carriers for complex data, serving as a crucial medium for information extraction and analysis. Automated chart understanding poses significant challenges to existing multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Muye Huang , Lingling Zhang , Jie Ma , Han Lai , Fangzhi Xu , Yifei Li , Wenjun Wu , Yaqiang Wu , Jun Liu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across a range of tasks that integrate visual and textual understanding, such as image captioning and visual question answering. These models are trained on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xiaomei Zhang , Hanyu Zheng , Xiangyu Zhu , Jinghuan Wei , Junhong Zou , Zhen Lei , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Charts play an important role in visualization, reasoning, data analysis, and the exchange of ideas among humans. However, existing vision-language models (VLMs) still lack accurate perception of details and struggle to extract fine-grained…

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