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Bar charts are an effective way to convey numeric information, but today's algorithms cannot parse them. Existing methods fail when faced with even minor variations in appearance. Here, we present DVQA, a dataset that tests many aspects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Kushal Kafle , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Christopher Kanan

Charts are widely used for data visualization across various fields, including education, research, and business. Chart Question Answering (CQA) is an emerging task focused on the automatic interpretation and reasoning of data presented in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Muye Huang , Lingling Zhang , Lai Han , Wenjun Wu , Xinyu Zhang , Jun Liu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has been a popular task that combines vision and language, with numerous relevant implementations in literature. Even though there are some attempts that approach explainability and robustness issues in VQA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Theodoti Stoikou , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Stamou

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

Visual question answering (VQA) models respond to open-ended natural language questions about images. While VQA is an increasingly popular area of research, it is unclear to what extent current VQA architectures learn key semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Gabriel Grand , Aron Szanto , Yoon Kim , Alexander Rush

Vision Language Models (VLMs) often struggle with chart understanding tasks, particularly in accurate chart description and complex reasoning. Synthetic data generation is a promising solution, while usually facing the challenge of noise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Gongyao Jiang , Qiong Luo

Charts are a universally adopted medium for data communication, yet existing chart understanding benchmarks are overwhelmingly English-centric, limiting their accessibility and relevance to global audiences. To address this limitation, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yichen Xu , Liangyu Chen , Liang Zhang , Jianzhe Ma , Wenxuan Wang , Qin Jin

Whilst fact verification has attracted substantial interest in the natural language processing community, verifying misinforming statements against data visualizations such as charts has so far been overlooked. Charts are commonly used in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Mubashara Akhtar , Nikesh Subedi , Vivek Gupta , Sahar Tahmasebi , Oana Cocarascu , Elena Simperl

We introduce CHARTOM, a visual theory-of-mind benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal large language models' capability to understand and reason about misleading data visualizations though charts. CHARTOM consists of carefully designed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shubham Bharti , Shiyun Cheng , Jihyun Rho , Jianrui Zhang , Mu Cai , Yong Jae Lee , Martina Rau , Xiaojin Zhu

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have recently shown significant advancements in video understanding, especially in feature alignment, event reasoning, and instruction-following tasks. However, their capability for counterfactual reasoning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yuefei Chen , Jiang Liu , Xiaodong Lin , Ruixiang Tang

Information visualizations such as bar charts and line charts are very common for analyzing data and discovering critical insights. Often people analyze charts to answer questions that they have in mind. Answering such questions can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Enamul Hoque , Parsa Kavehzadeh , Ahmed Masry

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

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have garnered significant attention for their strong visual-semantic understanding. Most existing chart benchmarks evaluate MLLMs' ability to parse information from charts to answer questions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xiangnan Chen , Yuancheng Fang , Qian Xiao , Juncheng Li , Jun Lin , Siliang Tang , Yi Yang , Yueting Zhuang

Chart understanding presents a unique challenge for large vision-language models (LVLMs), as it requires the integration of sophisticated textual and visual reasoning capabilities. However, current LVLMs exhibit a notable imbalance between…

In the fields of computer vision and natural language processing, multimodal chart question-answering, especially involving color, structure, and textless charts, poses significant challenges. Traditional methods, which typically involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Jingxuan Wei , Nan Xu , Guiyong Chang , Yin Luo , BiHui Yu , Ruifeng Guo

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) achieve strong performance on visual question answering benchmarks, yet often rely on spurious correlations rather than genuine causal reasoning. Existing evaluations primarily assess the correctness of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Dhita Putri Pratama , Soyeon Caren Han , Yihao Ding

Information visualizations are powerful tools that help users quickly identify patterns, trends, and outliers, facilitating informed decision-making. However, when visualizations incorporate deceptive design elements-such as truncated or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Ridwan Mahbub , Mohammed Saidul Islam , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Mizanur Rahman , Mir Tafseer Nayeem , Enamul Hoque

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at multimodal reasoning, yet it remains unclear whether their answers are grounded in visual evidence or driven by learned language and world priors. Counting provides a precise testbed: when visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Reem Alzahrani , Hassan Alshanqiti , Bushra Bin Hemid , Zaid Alyafeai , Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Bernard Ghanem

The recent advancements in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated progress toward true intelligence requiring robust reasoning capabilities. Beyond pattern recognition, linguistic reasoning must integrate with visual comprehension,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yunfei Bai , Amit Dhanda , Shekhar Jain

Counterfactual explanations are viewed as an effective way to explain machine learning predictions. This interest is reflected by a relatively young literature with already dozens of algorithms aiming to generate such explanations. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Raphael Mazzine , David Martens