arXiv AI

DEEPCHART: How Far are LLMs from Faithful Data-Science Chart Generation?

DEEPCHART is a new benchmark that evaluates large language models (LLMs) on faithful data‑science chart generation. It contains 1,482 expert‑annotated instances from scientific papers, financial filings, and ecosystem reports, and assesses chart creation through an Extract–Reason–Visualize pipeline. Experiments show that while LLMs can produce visually plausible charts, they frequently hallucinate data at the extraction and reasoning stages, especially in long, noisy, and multimodal contexts.

arXiv AI
Jun 10

ChartAgent: A Multimodal Agent for Visually Grounded Reasoning in Complex Chart Question Answering

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 AI
Aug 5

ChartAnno: Evaluating MLLMs for Chart Annotation Generation

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 4

ChartAnno: Evaluating MLLMs for Chart Annotation Generation

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 Machine Learning
Jun 3

DiffUNet^2: Bidirectional Prediction, Probabilistic Generation and Collaborative Visual Discovery for Scientific Data

arXiv:2606. 03926v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modeling temporal evolution is important to analyzing and reasoning about scientific phenomena, yet most machine learning methods provide deterministic forward predictions that overlook multiple plausible outcomes and rarely support backward reasoning, limiting their usefulness in practical scientific workflows.

By Mengdi Chu, Jiaxin Yang, Angus G. Forbes, Nathan Debardeleben, Earl Lawrence, Ayan Biswas, Han-Wei Shen
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Chart Deception in Vision-Language Models: From Vulnerability to Mitigation

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 AI
Jun 4

Towards Verifiable Multimodal Deep Research: A Multi-Agent Harness for Interleaved Report Generation

arXiv:2605. 29861v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced autonomous agents from deep search, which retrieves concise factual answers, to deep research, which synthesizes scattered evidence into long-form reports.

By Chenghao Zhang, Guanting Dong, Yufan Liu, Tong Zhao, Xiaoxi Li, Zhicheng Dou