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The fast advancement of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) has shown immense potential. These models are increasingly capable of tackling abstract visual tasks. Geometric structures, particularly graphs with their inherent flexibility and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Camilo Chacón Sartori , Christian Blum , Filippo Bistaffa

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

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

Data visualization principles, derived from decades of research in design and perception, ensure proper visual communication. While prior work has shown that large language models (LLMs) can generate charts or flag misleading figures, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Martin Sinnona , Valentin Bonas , Viviana Siless , Emmanuel Iarussi

Charts are very popular for analyzing data, visualizing key insights and answering complex reasoning questions about data. To facilitate chart-based data analysis using natural language, several downstream tasks have been introduced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Ahmed Masry , Parsa Kavehzadeh , Xuan Long Do , Enamul Hoque , Shafiq Joty

Visual question answering (VQA) in medical imaging aims to support clinical diagnosis by automatically interpreting complex imaging data in response to natural language queries. Existing studies typically rely on distinct visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yuanhe Tian , Chen Su , Junwen Duan , Yan Song

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

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

Scientific Literature charts often contain complex visual elements, including multi-plot figures, flowcharts, structural diagrams and etc. Evaluating multimodal models using these authentic and intricate charts provides a more accurate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Lingdong Shen , Qigqi , Kun Ding , Gaofeng Meng , Shiming Xiang

Vision Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate promising chart comprehension capabilities. Yet, prior explorations of their visualization literacy have been limited to assessing their response correctness and fail to explore their internal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Lianghan Dong , Anamaria Crisan

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

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

Chart question answering (ChartQA) tasks play a critical role in interpreting and extracting insights from visualization charts. While recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) like GPT-4o have shown promise in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Yifan Wu , Lutao Yan , Leixian Shen , Yunhai Wang , Nan Tang , Yuyu Luo

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown promising capabilities in interpreting visualized graph data, offering a new perspective for graph-structured reasoning beyond traditional Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Qihang Ai , Ruizhou Li , Menghui Wang , Haiyun Jiang

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…

Recent advancements in large vision-language models (LVLMs) have led to significant progress in generating natural language descriptions for visual content and thus enhancing various applications. One issue with these powerful models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Kung-Hsiang Huang , Mingyang Zhou , Hou Pong Chan , Yi R. Fung , Zhenhailong Wang , Lingyu Zhang , Shih-Fu Chang , Heng Ji

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly used to automate chart generation from data tables, enabling efficient data analysis and reporting but also introducing new misuse risks. In this work, we introduce ChartAttack, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Jesus-German Ortiz-Barajas , Jonathan Tonglet , Vivek Gupta , Iryna Gurevych

Visualizations help communicate data insights, but deceptive data representations can distort their interpretation and propagate misinformation. While recent Vision Language Models (VLMs) perform well on many chart understanding tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Harsh Nishant Lalai , Raj Sanjay Shah , Hanspeter Pfister , Sashank Varma , Grace Guo

Counterfactual explanations promote explainability in machine learning models by answering the question "how should an input instance be perturbed to obtain a desired predicted label?". The comparison of this instance before and after…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Jing Ma , Ruocheng Guo , Saumitra Mishra , Aidong Zhang , Jundong Li

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in table Question Answering (Table QA). However, extending these capabilities to multi-table QA remains challenging due to unreliable schema linking across complex tables. Existing methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xixi Wang , Miguel Costa , Jordanka Kovaceva , Shuai Wang , Francisco C. Pereira