arXiv AI By Jiawei Lu, Chen Zhang, Jinwei Lu, Yuanwei Song, Yuanfeng Song, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

RSIV-Harness: A Recursive Self-Improvement Harness Framework for Open-Domain Conversational Text-to-Visualization

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RSIV-Harness is a framework that keeps language model weights fixed while recursively improving the surrounding harness based on failure traces, using a four-layer evaluation to ensure stability. It addresses challenges in open-domain conversational text-to-visualization, such as ambiguous user requests, data source discovery, and iterative chart refinement. The introduced ODAC-Vis benchmark evaluates these capabilities across 640 tasks, and experiments show significant gains in executability and chart structure after a single RSIV-Harness iteration.

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