Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant progress in chart understanding, generation, and editing, but their ability to annotate existing charts remains underexplored. Annotating charts is a common yet challenging communicative task, requiring models to infer intended messages, interpret chart semantics, and place appropriate textual or graphical elements.
arXiv:2607. 25911v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Annotation is among the most demanding visualization tasks to automate, as it simultaneously requires correctly navigating visual, semantic, and stylistic constraints.
By Md Rahat-uz-Zaman, Md Dilshadur Rahman, Andrew McNutt, Paul Rosen
arXiv:2606. 29808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chart data extraction, which reverse-engineers data tables from chart images, is essential for reproducibility, analysis, retrieval, and redesign.
By Yuchen He, Peizhi Ying, Liqi Cheng, Kuilin Peng, Yuan Tian, Dazhen Deng, Yingcai Wu
arXiv:2607. 25021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can connect visualization patterns to external causes, consequences, and domain knowledge, but the evidential basis of these interpretations is often unclear.
By Ishrat Jahan Eliza, Md Dilshadur Rahman
arXiv:2510. 04514v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 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.
By Rachneet Kaur, Nishan Srishankar, Zhen Zeng, Sumitra Ganesh, Manuela Veloso
arXiv:2607. 04726v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chart-to-code generation is commonly trained with supervised fine-tuning on reference plotting scripts, implicitly treating the gold code as a fully observable target.
By Tianhao Niu, Qingfu Zhu, Wanxiang Che
arXiv:2608. 12262v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have been growing the capability for scientific writing and collaboration.
By Weihao Bo, Shan Zhang, Yanpeng Sun, Jie Liu, Yongke Yao, Jinhao Du, Wei He, Kai Zou, Zechao Li, Jingdong Wang
Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong capabilities in generating visualization code from textual or visual specifications. However, real-world visualization authoring is inherently iterative: users frequently revise existing visualizations to repair flawed charts or adapt them to desired styles.
arXiv:2607. 04727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic data visualization generation has advanced rapidly with multi-modal large language models, yet existing efforts largely focus on static charts and overlook the interactive dashboards commonly used for real-world data exploration.
By Tianhao Niu, Ziyu Han, Qiguang Chen, Shiqi Zhou, Baocai Shan, Hengjie Fang, Qingfu Zhu, Wanxiang Che
Automatic data visualization generation has advanced rapidly with multi-modal large language models, yet existing efforts largely focus on static charts and overlook the interactive dashboards commonly used for real-world data exploration. We introduce Dashboard2Code, a novel task that requires a model to proactively explore an interactive dashboard, acquire and integrate feedback from its own interactions (e.
arXiv:2511. 14967v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise in generating structured diagrams from natural language descriptions, particularly Mermaid sequence diagrams for software engineering.
By Basel Shbita, Farhan Ahmed, Chad DeLuca
arXiv:2507. 19634v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in large language models have laid the foundation for multimodal LLMs (MLLMs), which unify text, speech, and vision within a single framework.
By Sara Papi, Maike Z\"ufle, Marco Gaido, Beatrice Savoldi, Danni Liu, Ioannis Douros, Luisa Bentivogli, Jan Niehues