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The significant advancements in visual understanding and instruction following from Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have opened up more possibilities for broader applications in diverse and universal human-centric scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Keliang Li , Zaifei Yang , Jiahe Zhao , Hongze Shen , Ruibing Hou , Hong Chang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Visual reasoning, a cornerstone of human intelligence, encompasses complex perceptual and logical processes essential for solving diverse visual problems. While advances in computer vision have produced powerful models for various…

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Vision-language models(VLMs) are increasingly applied to visual stock price forecasting, yet existing benchmarks inadequately evaluate their understanding of stock price in candlestick charts. First, prior studies fail to isolate VLMs'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Kaiqi Hu , Linda Xiao , Shiyue Xu , Ziyi Tang , Mingwen Liu

With the rapid development of MLLMs, evaluating their visual capabilities has become increasingly crucial. Current benchmarks primarily fall into two main types: basic perception benchmarks, which focus on local details but lack deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Chenhui Qiang , Zhaoyang Wei , Xumeng Han , Zipeng Wang , Siyao Li , Xiangyuan Lan , Jianbin Jiao , Zhenjun Han

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown great potential in perception and interpretation tasks, but their capabilities in predictive reasoning remain under-explored. To address this gap, we introduce a novel benchmark that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Mingwei Zhu , Leigang Sha , Yu Shu , Kangjia Zhao , Tiancheng Zhao , Jianwei Yin

Current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in general visual reasoning but remain underexplored in Abstract Visual Reasoning (AVR), which demands higher-order reasoning to identify abstract rules beyond simple perception.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yanbei Jiang , Yihao Ding , Chao Lei , Jiayang Ao , Jey Han Lau , Krista A. Ehinger

Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) as reasoning modules that can deconstruct complex tasks into more manageable sub-tasks, particularly when applied to visual reasoning tasks for images. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ahmad Mahmood , Ashmal Vayani , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in chart understanding, largely driven by supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on increasingly large synthetic datasets. However, scaling SFT data alone is inefficient and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jianzhu Bao , Haozhen Zhang , Kuicai Dong , Bozhi Wu , Sarthak Ketanbhai Modi , Zi Pong Lim , Yon Shin Teo , Wenya Wang

Charts are essential to data analysis, transforming raw data into clear visual representations that support human decision-making. Although current vision-language models (VLMs) have made significant progress, they continue to struggle with…

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have made significant progress in chart understanding. However, financial charts, characterized by complex temporal structures and domain-specific terminology, remain notably underexplored. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Dong Shu , Haoyang Yuan , Yuchen Wang , Yanguang Liu , Huopu Zhang , Haiyan Zhao , Mengnan Du

Chart interpretation is crucial for visual data analysis, but accurately extracting information from charts poses significant challenges for automated models. This study investigates the fine-tuning of DEPLOT, a modality conversion module…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Archita Srivastava , Abhas Kumar , Rajesh Kumar , Prabhakar Srinivasan

Large vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on multimodal tasks but often suffer from hallucination and poor grounding in knowledge-intensive reasoning. We propose SmoGVLM, a small, graph-enhanced VLM that integrates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Debjyoti Mondal , Rituraj Singh , Subhadarshi Panda

Reinforcement Learning Finetuning (RFT) has significantly advanced the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by enabling long chains of thought, self-correction, and effective tool use. While recent works attempt to extend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Mingyuan Wu , Jingcheng Yang , Jize Jiang , Meitang Li , Kaizhuo Yan , Hanchao Yu , Minjia Zhang , Chengxiang Zhai , Klara Nahrstedt

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable versatility but face challenges in demonstrating true visual understanding, particularly in chart reasoning tasks. Existing benchmarks like ChartQA reveal significant reliance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yuyang Ji , Haohan Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) for Graph Reasoning have been extensively studied over the past two years, involving enabling LLMs to understand graph structures and reason on graphs to solve various graph problems, with graph algorithm…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yuwei Hu , Xinyi Huang , Zhewei Wei , Yongchao Liu , Chuntao Hong

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) and their multimodal variants (LVLMs) hold immense promise for scientific and engineering applications, particularly in processing visual information like scientific diagrams. However, their practical deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Minghao Zhou , Rafael Souza , Yaqian Hu , Luming Che

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown unprecedented capabilities in advancing various vision-language tasks. However, MLLMs face significant challenges with hallucinations, and misleading outputs that do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shengqiong Wu , Hao Fei , Liangming Pan , William Yang Wang , Shuicheng Yan , Tat-Seng Chua

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for post-training large language models (LLMs), achieving state-of-the-art performance on tasks with structured, verifiable answers. Applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yiqing Liang , Jielin Qiu , Wenhao Ding , Zuxin Liu , James Tompkin , Mengdi Xu , Mengzhou Xia , Zhengzhong Tu , Laixi Shi , Jiacheng Zhu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved significant advances in integrating visual and linguistic information, yet their ability to reason about complex and real-world scenarios remains limited. The existing benchmarks are…