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Despite the promising results of large multimodal models (LMMs) in complex vision-language tasks that require knowledge, reasoning, and perception abilities together, we surprisingly found that these models struggle with simple tasks on…

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Chart question answering (CQA) has become a critical multimodal task for evaluating the reasoning capabilities of vision-language models. While early approaches have shown promising performance by focusing on visual features or leveraging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jingxuan Wei , Nan Xu , Junnan Zhu , Yanni Hao , Gaowei Wu , Bihui Yu , Lei Wang

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) perform strongly on single-turn chart generation, their ability to support real-world exploratory data analysis remains underexplored. In practice, users iteratively refine visualizations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Manav Nitin Kapadnis , Lawanya Baghel , Atharva Naik , Carolyn Rosé

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

Understanding and reasoning over diagrams is a fundamental aspect of human intelligence. While Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various tasks, existing benchmarks lack comprehensive evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Fengji Zhang , Linquan Wu , Huiyu Bai , Guancheng Lin , Xiao Li , Xiao Yu , Yue Wang , Bei Chen , Jacky Keung

The chart-to-code generation task requires MLLMs to convert chart images into executable code. This task faces two main challenges: limited data diversity and the difficulty of maintaining visual consistency between generated charts and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Wentao Tan , Qiong Cao , Chao Xue , Yibing Zhan , Changxing Ding , Xiaodong He

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

Automated data visualization plays a crucial role in simplifying data interpretation, enhancing decision-making, and improving efficiency. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating visualizations from natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Mizanur Rahman , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Shafiq Joty , Enamul Hoque

Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have attracted increasing research attention due to their powerful visual understanding capabilities. While they have achieved impressive results on various vision tasks, their performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chengzhi Xu , Yuyang Wang , Lai Wei , Lichao Sun , Weiran Huang

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

Translating chart images into executable plotting scripts-referred to as the chart-to-code generation task-requires Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to perform fine-grained visual parsing, precise code synthesis, and robust…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zhihan Zhang , Yixin Cao , Lizi Liao

Image-to-code generation tests whether a vision-language model (VLM) can recover the structure of an image enough to express it as executable code. Existing benchmarks either focus on narrow visual domains, depend on paired executable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ajay Vikram Periasami , Junlin Wang , Bhuwan Dhingra

Chart-to-code generation converts a chart image into an executable plotting script, enabling faithful reproduction and editable visualizations. Existing methods are largely Python-centric, limiting practical use and overlooking a critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhihan Zhang , Lizi Liao

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

Programming often involves converting detailed and complex specifications into code, a process during which developers typically utilize visual aids to more effectively convey concepts. While recent developments in Large Multimodal Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Kaixin Li , Yuchen Tian , Qisheng Hu , Ziyang Luo , Zhiyong Huang , Jing Ma

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

Recently, large language models have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities through long-chain reasoning before responding. However, how to extend this capability to visual reasoning tasks remains an open challenge. Existing multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Caijun Jia , Nan Xu , Jingxuan Wei , Qingli Wang , Lei Wang , Bihui Yu , Junnan Zhu

Although most current large multimodal models (LMMs) can already understand photos of natural scenes and portraits, their understanding of abstract images, e.g., charts, maps, or layouts, and visual reasoning capabilities remains quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wenqi Zhang , Zhenglin Cheng , Yuanyu He , Mengna Wang , Yongliang Shen , Zeqi Tan , Guiyang Hou , Mingqian He , Yanna Ma , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

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

Understanding charts requires models to jointly reason over geometric visual patterns, structured numerical data, and natural language -- a capability where current vision-language models (VLMs) remain limited. We introduce ChartNet, a…