arXiv:2608.03464v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Annotations are essential to communicative visualization, helping explain data, emphasize key findings, and guide attention. While multimodal large...
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: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:2609.08657v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Charts are structured visual compositions whose elements have distinct functional roles, semantic correspondences, and visibility relations. This str...
By Xiaochuan Zhong, Yifan Hou, Chenxi Pang, Shaobo Cui
The paper introduces LayerWiseBench, a benchmark that evaluates visual language models on layer-wise chart understanding and editing. It focuses on three core concepts—layer attribution, layer binding, and visibility ordering—by pairing rendered charts with spatially aligned per-layer RGBA assets and functional role labels. The benchmark includes 2,800 charts, 7,329 understanding questions, and 53,791 editing variants, revealing that models excel at attribution and binding but struggle with visibility ordering, especially when editing overlapping components.
arXiv:2604. 02794v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Charts are ubiquitous in scientific and financial literature for presenting structured data.
By Situo Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Zichen Zhu, Da Ma, Lei Pan, Danyang Zhang, Zihan Zhao, Lu Chen, Kai Yu
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:2609.26208v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Data visualization is central to analytical reasoning, but real-world analysis increasingly requires language-driven interactive interfaces rather than...
By Mizanur Rahman, Aaryaman Kartha, Enamul Hoque Prince
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:2609.24210v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Building strong chart-to-code systems increasingly relies on reinforcement learning, whose effectiveness depends critically on the quality of the rewar...
By Lijian Wu, Henry Hengyuan Zhao, Zijian Zhang, Jiahao Tang, Jiajun Wu, Alex Jinpeng Wang
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.
Chart2SVG is a multimodal large language model that transforms static raster chart images into editable SVGs enriched with semantic structure. By embedding chart‑specific semantic tokens into a vision‑language framework and training on the Beagle+ dataset of 33K distilled chart samples, the model captures both geometric primitives and their functional roles. The resulting SVGs are visually accurate and structurally consistent, and the accompanying Chart Structure Graph (CSG) exposes visual dependencies for interactive exploration, chart repurposing, and layout reuse.
By Jinning Cui, Lu Chen, Haoyan Shi, Yue He, Chenglong Wang, Mengyu Zhou, Weidong Huang, Yunhai Wang
ChartRevise is a new dataset and evaluation protocol designed for exact chart editing via code. It contains 92,438 records covering 344 edit types across 20 chart types and three plotting libraries, built using the grammar of graphics and source‑program checks to ensure applicability. The protocol measures atomic requirement completion, detects gratuitous changes and missed coupled updates, and combines these with execution and rendering success to determine exact‑edit success.
By Jiaxiang Tang, Yi Zhou, Chad DeLuca, Rogerio Feris, Ahmed Khalil Omran, Zhi-Li Zhang, Pengyuan Li, Ali Anwar