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  1. A Stevens's Power Law Check-up of GPT-5.5's Implicit Reading of Visual Encoding

    Oct 6, 2026Kaichun Yang, Jian ChenVLM EvaluationChart Understanding

    The Ohio State University

  2. ChartDensity-Bench: Benchmarking MLLMs for Numerical Data Reconstruction under Visual Density

    Sep 30, 2026Xinhe Wu, Yadong JinMultimodal RobustnessChart Data Extraction

    iSoftStone AI Research Lab (ISSAIR) iSoftStone Beijing, China

  3. LegendBench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Legend Understanding with Counterfactual Interventions

    Sep 21, 2026Xinnuo Zhang, Zhike Tang, Jing Xu +2VLM EvaluationCounterfactual Evaluation of VLMs

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  4. Monitorable Chart Reasoning Agents via Verifiable Process Rewards

    Sep 21, 2026Sanchit Sinha, Oana Frunza, Kashif Rasul +1AI Agent MonitoringReinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA · Morgan Stanley, USA

  5. LinePilot Digitizer: Line-Plot Recovery with Manual and Automatic Calibration

    Sep 16, 2026Fengbo Ma, Rayan Akhtar, Aakash H. Joshi +5Chart Data ExtractionChart Understanding

    University of Georgia · University of Pennsylvania

  6. Charts Are Beyond Pixels: Probing for Layer-Wise Chart Understanding and Editing

    Sep 8, 2026Xiaochuan Zhong, Yifan Hou, Chenxi Pang +1VLM EvaluationChart QA

    DeepDelta Lab, School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · ETH Zurich · Google DeepMind

  7. DVBench: Benchmarking MLLMs for Understanding Dynamic Charts and Narratives in Data Videos

    Aug 30, 2026Bomiao Wang, Zekai Shao, Jiexiang Lan +3Video UnderstandingVideo-Language Model Evaluation

    Fudan University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  8. Chartography: A Benchmark for Professional Chart Understanding

    Aug 11, 2026Suhaas Garre, Chris Mutty, Sushant Mehta +1Data VisualizationChart QA

    Surge AI*

  9. ChartAnno: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Chart Annotation Generation

    Aug 4, 2026Zhenghan Chen, Zekai Shao, Lidan Tan +10Data VisualizationMultimodal Large Language Models

    Fudan University · Sun Yat-sen University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) +1

  10. Do Maps Still Matter for Machines: Revisiting the Role of Choropleth Maps in Foundation Model Spatial Understanding

    Jul 20, 2026Zhiwei Wei, Yonghe Sun, Zhenjia Liu +5Data VisualizationSpatial Reasoning Benchmarks

    aSchool of Geographic Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China · bHunan Key Laboratory of Geospatial Big Data Mining and Application, Changsha, China · cSchool of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China +3

  11. Attention-Guided Saliency Maps for Interpreting Visualization Literacy in VLMs

    Jul 17, 2026Maeve Hutchinson, Abderrahmane Wassim Mehdaoui, Pranava MadhyasthaData VisualizationVisual Attention

    City St George’s · City St George’s, University of London · The Alan Turing Institute

  12. A Multimodal Reasoning Typology for Grounding Chart-Image Coherence in Science Communication

    Jul 6, 2026Avina Nakarmi, Sohom Sen, Xun Song +2Multimodal GroundingScientific Communication

    Department of Data Science New Jersey Institute of Technology · Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology · Department of Computer Science New Jersey Institute of Technology +1

  13. What You See Is What You Get: Observation-Aligned Supervision for Chart-to-Code Generation

    Jul 6, 2026Tianhao Niu, Qingfu Zhu, Wanxiang CheData VisualizationCode Generation

    Research Center for Social Computing and Interactive Robotics Harbin Institute of Technology, China

  14. RiverONE: Generating Knowledge-Intensive VLM by Simulated Quantum Machines

    Jun 29, 2026Xindian Ma, Xinyu Long, Yefei Zhang +11Vision-Language ModelsQuantum-Inspired ML

    Thewake RiverYtz Lab

  15. Making Multimodal LLMs Reliable Chart Data Extractors: A Benchmark and Training Framework

    Jun 29, 2026Yuchen He, Peizhi Ying, Liqi Cheng +4Document Information ExtractionMultimodal Large Language Models

    State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University · Zhejiang University Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · Guangdong University of Technology Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

  16. ChartLens: A Dual-Branch Framework for Chart Data Correction and Factual Summary Refinement

    Jun 9, 2026Hao Liu, Ruping Cao, Kun Wang +4Document Information ExtractionChart Data Extraction

    1Shandong University · 2Southeast University · 3Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)

  17. Disentangling Visual and Factual Correctness in LVLMs' Visualization Literacy

    Jun 2, 2026Soohyun Lee, Jaeyoung Kim, Seokhyeon Park +5VLM EvaluationData Visualization

    Seoul National University · MADI Co., Ltd. · Hankuk University of Foreign Studies +1

  18. Encoded but Not Routed: Explaining the Table-Chart Gap in Scientific Claim Verification

    Jun 1, 2026Sunisth Kumar, Xanh Ho, Tim Schopf +3VLM InterpretabilityChart Understanding

    The University of Tokyo · NII LLMC · National Institute of Informatics +2

  19. ChartArena: Benchmarking Chart Parsing across Languages, Scenarios, and Formats

    May 31, 2026Shangpin Peng, Gengluo Li, Xingyu Wan +10VLM EvaluationData Visualization

    1Large Language Model Department, Tencent · 3Shenzhen Loop Area Institute · 5Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +2

  20. EdgeFlow: Edge-Map Augmented VLM-Based Flowchart Processing for Industrial Requirements Engineering

    May 26, 2026Zhifei Dou, Shabnam Hassani, Ou WeiRequirements EngineeringVision-Language Models

    Huawei Research Canada

  21. Self-Ensembling Vision-Language Models for Chart Data Extraction

    May 26, 2026Thomas Berkane, Qianyi Wang, Maimuna S. MajumderData VisualizationEnsemble Learning

    Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School

  22. EpiCurveBench: Evaluating VLMs on Epidemic Curve Digitization

    May 26, 2026Thomas Berkane, Maimuna S. MajumderVLM EvaluationChart Data Extraction

    Computational Health Informatics Program Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School

  23. ChartAct: A Benchmark for Dynamic Chart Understanding

    May 26, 2026Muye Huang, Lin Wu, Lingling Zhang +5Data VisualizationChart QA

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University · 2MOE KLNN Lab, Xi’an Jiaotong University

  24. PathWISE: Multi-Agent Cancer Pathway Triaging Ontology Learning from Clinical Flowcharts

    May 25, 2026Sofiat Abioye, Ufaq Khan, Shazad Ashraf +6HealthcareClinical Triage

    Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE · University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK +2

  25. From Data to Insights: Exploring Program-of-Thoughts Prompting for Chart Summarization

    May 25, 2026Yutong Qu, Wei ZhangData VisualizationVLM Reasoning

    Adelaide University · Adelaide, SA, Australia

  26. ChartFI: Benchmarking Faithfulness and Insightfulness of Chart Descriptions from Multimodal Large Language Models

    May 22, 2026Fen Wang, Zekai Shao, Qiman Kang +5Data VisualizationMultimodal Large Language Models

    School of Data Science, Fudan University · Zhengzhou Zhongke Institute of Integrated Circuit and System Application · School of Computer Science, Fudan University

  27. (How) Do Large Language Models Understand High-Level Message Sequence Charts?

    May 13, 2026Mohammad Reza MousaviLLM EvaluationChart Understanding

    Department of Informatics, King’s College London

  28. Learning More from Less: Exploiting Counterfactuals for Data-Efficient Chart Understanding

    May 11, 2026Jianzhu Bao, Haozhen Zhang, Kuicai Dong +5Data VisualizationVLM Adaptation

    1Nanyang Technological University · 2Aumovio Singapore Pte. Ltd.

  29. ChartREG++: Towards Benchmarking and Improving Chart Referring Expression Grounding under Diverse referring clues and Multi-Target Referring

    May 8, 2026Tianhao Niu, Ziyu Han, Xuan Dong +2Referring Image SegmentationVisual Grounding

    Research Center for Social Computing and Interactive Robotics Harbin Institute of Technology, China

  30. PlotPick: AI-powered batch extraction of numerical data from scientific figures

    May 7, 2026Tommy CarstensenData VisualizationVision-Language Models

    Copenhagen Research Centre for Biological and Precision Psychiatry, Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark