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: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
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:2607. 14499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made substantial advances on benchmarks, yet their real-world effectiveness remains uncertain.
By Yijiang Li, Huiqi Zou, Bingyang Wang, Ziang Xiao
arXiv:2608. 00076v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) increasingly support high-stakes decision making by combining complementary information from images and text.
By Vahidin Hasic, Chao Wang, Luis C. Garcia-Peraza-Herrera, David Watson, Senka Krivic
arXiv:2607. 14152v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The persuasive power of data visualizations can go awry: for instance, in an explainable AI (XAI) context, visualizations can produce over-trust of predictive models.
By Michael Correll, Lucy Havens, Mahsan Nourani
arXiv:2608. 16259v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid progress of image generation models calls for AI-generated image (AIGI) detectors that are not only accurate but also explainable and reliable.
By Bowen Deng, Jiahui Zhan, Yikun Ji, Haozhen Yan, Jianfu Zhang
arXiv:2605. 28215v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) enables multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to classify images from a few labelled examples.
By Carmen Quiles-Ram\'irez, Leticia L. Rodr\'iguez, Nicol\'as Martorell, Natalia D\'iaz-Rodr\'iguez
arXiv:2607. 02995v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models can exhibit visual concept-conditioned divergence: given images containing demographic features, corporate logos, or ideological symbols, some models produce unusually uniform responses that differ from what peer models say about the same input.
By Junchi Liao, Jiawen Deng, Fuji Ren
arXiv:2606. 07613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual evidence has long been treated as a reliable form of legal proof, but advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are undermining that assumption.
By Jinzhe Tan, Ali Ekber Cinar, Karim Benyekhlef
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. 09281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) perform strongly on engineering imagery, yet existing benchmarks mostly test drawing recognition, information extraction, or compliance checking, leaving open whether models can combine distributed visual evidence with engineering principles to reach a conclusion.
By Chenxu Du, Kang An, Tengyue Wang, Zhongyu Yang, Xinqi Yang, Yuanchi Zhu, Hebao Zhu, Ziliang Wang, Faqiang Qian, Yunli Yang, Qibing Ren