GENFIG1 is a new benchmark that tests whether vision-language models can create effective Figure 1 visuals capturing the central scientific idea from paper text.
DVQA: Understanding Data Visualizations via Question Answering
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Bar charts are an effective way to convey numeric information, but today's algorithms cannot parse them. Existing methods fail when faced with even minor variations in appearance. Here, we present DVQA, a dataset that tests many aspects of bar chart understanding in a question answering framework. Unlike visual question answering (VQA), DVQA requires processing words and answers that are unique to a particular bar chart. State-of-the-art VQA algorithms perform poorly on DVQA, and we propose two strong baselines that perform considerably better. Our work will enable algorithms to automatically extract numeric and semantic information from vast quantities of bar charts found in scientific publications, Internet articles, business reports, and many other areas.
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GENFIG1: Visual Summaries of Scholarly Work as a Challenge for Vision-Language Models
GENFIG1 is a new benchmark that tests whether vision-language models can create effective Figure 1 visuals capturing the central scientific idea from paper text.
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ChartVerse: Scaling Chart Reasoning via Reliable Programmatic Synthesis from Scratch
ChartVerse uses Rollout Posterior Entropy and truth-anchored inverse QA synthesis to produce 640K high-quality chart reasoning samples, training an 8B model that surpasses its 30B teacher.
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Chart-RL: Policy Optimization Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Visual Reasoning in Chart Question Answering with Vision Language Models
Chart-RL uses RL policy optimization and LoRA to boost VLM chart reasoning, enabling a 4B model to reach 0.634 accuracy versus 0.580 for an 8B model with lower latency.