arXiv:2510.17932v5 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: We introduce Chart2Code, a new benchmark for evaluating the chart understanding and code generation capabilities of large multimodal models (...
By Jiahao Tang, Henry Hengyuan Zhao, Lijian Wu, Zijian Zhang, Yifei Tao, Dongxing Mao, Yang Wan, Jingru Tan, Min Zeng, Min Li, Alex Jinpeng Wang
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
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.
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: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: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: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: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: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
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
arXiv:2609.01409v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong performance in generating scientific figures from text or images. However, producing publication-ready...
By Christian Greisinger, Zhixue Zhao, Steffen Eger