arXiv:2608. 03464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant progress in chart understanding, generation, and editing, but their ability to annotate existing charts remains underexplored.
By Zhenghan Chen, Zekai Shao, Lidan Tan, Xin Lin, Xingchen Zeng, Yi Shan, Ziyue Lin, Xiaoliang Fu, Xinyuan Liu, Yuetong Guo, Fen Wang, Bongshin Lee, Siming Chen
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: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:2608. 15510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chart-to-code generation requires a model to read the fine-grained visual details of a chart and write executable code that reproduces it.
By Qinghao Fu, Yarong Wang, Shunlei Ning, Yilin Wang, Shunwen Bai, Xinda Wang, Jiaotuan Wang, Yinan Nie, Wei Zhou
arXiv:2607. 22600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Information visualizations are widely used to communicate patterns, trends, and outliers, yet deceptive design choices-such as truncated or inverted axes, distorted aspect ratios, inappropriate encodings, and misleading color mappings-can systematically alter interpretation while preserving the underlying data.
By Ridwan Mahbub, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mizanur Rahman, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Enamul Hoque
arXiv:2606. 10334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Code-generating large language models (LLMs) increasingly produce visual artifacts such as charts, web pages, and slides by writing programs that are executed by non-differentiable renderers, committing to code before observing the render.
By Haoyu Dong
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. 15272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Editing the figures in a research paper is a routine and time-consuming part of everyday research practice: authors relabel components, rearrange panels, and restyle visuals as they revise their manuscripts.
By Yasheng Sun, Zezi Zeng, Yifan Yang, Chong Luo, Wenyi Wang, Ziwei Liu, J\"urgen Schmidhuber
arXiv:2608. 12611v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing screenshot-to-code systems face a trade-off between flexibility and controllability.
By Houston H. Zhang, Tao Zhang, Li Gu, Linfeng Ye, Yuanhao Yu, Xinxin Zuo, Yang Wang, Zhixiang Chi
arXiv:2502. 11140v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have become a cornerstone for automated visualization code generation, enabling users to create charts through natural language instructions.
By Wonduk Seo, Daye Kang, Hyunjin An, Taehan Kim, Soohyuk Cho, Seungyong Lee, Minhyeong Yu, Jian Park, Yi Bu, Seunghyun Lee
arXiv:2601. 04390v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-quality methodology figures are central to scientific communication, yet they remain difficult and time-consuming to create.
By Siyuan Huang, Yifan Zhou, Yutong Gao, Zi Yin, Juyang Bai, Xinxin Liu, Rama Chellappa, Chun Pong Lau, Cheng Peng, Sayan Nag, Shraman Pramanick
arXiv:2607. 00969v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual analytics (VA) plays an increasingly important role in supporting machine learning (ML) workflows.
By Yiwen Xing, Philip Beaucamp, Joyraj Chakraborty, Afrah Farea, Yuanzhe Jin, Saiful Khan, Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Min Chen