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.
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...
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.
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...
arXiv:2607. 25911v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Annotation is among the most demanding visualization tasks to automate, as it simultaneously requires correctly navigating visual, semantic, and stylistic constraints.
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 (...
arXiv:2604. 02794v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Charts are ubiquitous in scientific and financial literature for presenting structured data.
arXiv:2607. 25021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can connect visualization patterns to external causes, consequences, and domain knowledge, but the evidential basis of these interpretations is often unclear.
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.
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.
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: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.