Generating high-quality charts with Large Language Models (LLMs) presents significant challenges due to limited data and the high cost of scaling through human curation. $\langle \text{instruction}, \text{data}, \text{code} \rangle$ triplets are scarce and expensive to manually curate as their creation demands technical expertise. To address this scalability challenge, we introduce a reference-free automatic feedback generator, which eliminates the need for costly human intervention. Our novel framework, C$^2$, consists of (1) an automatic feedback provider (ChartAF) and (2) a diverse, reference-free dataset (ChartUIE-8K). The results are compelling: in our first experiment, 74% of respondents strongly preferred, and 10% preferred, the results after feedback. The second post-feedback experiment demonstrates that ChartAF outperform nine baselines. Moreover, ChartUIE-8K significantly improves data diversity by increasing queries, datasets, and chart types by 5982%, 1936%, and 91%, respectively, over benchmarks. Finally, a study of LLM users revealed that 94% of participants preferred ChartUIE-8K's queries, with 93% deeming them aligned with real-world use cases. Core contributions are available as open-source at chartsquared.github.io, with ample qualitative examples.
From Pixels to Insights: A Survey on Automatic Chart Understanding in the Era of Large Foundation Models
Salesforce AI Research(Salesforce AI研究院);University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校);University of California, Los Angeles(加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校);Capital One(第一资本金融公司);NTU(南洋理工大学);Columbia University(哥伦比亚大学)
CharTool: Tool-Integrated Visual Reasoning for Chart Understanding
X-LANCE Lab, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学计算机科学与工程学院X-LANCE实验室);Jiangsu Key Lab of Language Computing(江苏省语言计算重点实验室);Suzhou Laboratory(苏州实验室);AISpeech Co., Ltd.(思必驰科技股份有限公司)
ChartMoE: Mixture of Diversely Aligned Expert Connector for Chart Understanding
International Digital Economy Academy(国际数字经济学院);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Peking University(北京大学);Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州))
Distill Visual Chart Reasoning Ability from LLMs to MLLMs
School of Computer Science, Fudan University(复旦大学计算机学院);Weixin Group, Tencent(腾讯Weixin部门);Shanghai Innovation Institute(上海创新研究院);Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing(上海智能信息处理重点实验室)
Toward Relieving Clinician Burden by Automatically Generating Progress Notes using Interim Hospital Data
Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications(利斯特希尔生物医学通信中心);National Library of Medicine(国家医学图书馆);National Institutes of Health(美国国立卫生研究院)
ChartPoint: Guiding MLLMs with Grounding Reflection for Chart Reasoning
Tsinghua University(清华大学);International Digital Economy Academy(国际数字经济学院);Beihang University(北航);Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州))
ChartAttack: Testing the Vulnerability of LLMs to Malicious Prompting in Chart Generation
INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"(INSAIT索菲亚大学"圣克莱门特·欧赫里迪斯基");Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE(无处不在知识处理实验室(UKP实验室)、计算机科学系、图腾达姆斯塔特大学和应用网络安全国家研究中心ATHENE);Arizona State University(亚利桑那州立大学)
ChartFI: Benchmarking Faithfulness and Insightfulness of Chart Descriptions from Multimodal Large Language Models
School of Data Science, Fudan University(复旦大学数据科学学院);Zhengzhou Zhongke Institute of Integrated Circuit and System Application(郑州中凯集成电路与系统应用研究院);School of Computer Science, Fudan University(复旦大学计算机科学学院)
Is this chart lying to me? Automating the detection of misleading visualizations
Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE(普遍知识处理实验室(UKP实验室)、计算机科学系、图腾斯大学(TU Darmstadt)及应用网络安全国家研究中心ATHENE);Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven(电子工程系、鲁文大学);Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven(计算机科学系、鲁文大学)
Benchmarking Multimodal RAG through a Chart-based Document Question-Answering Generation Framework
College of Computer Science, Chongqing University(重庆大学计算机学院);Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院空天信息创新研究院);Kuaishou Technology(快手科技)
Language Models for Automated Classification of Brain MRI Reports and Growth Chart Generation
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)(费城儿童医院);Lifespan Brain Institute (LiBI)(Lifespan脑研究所);Penn Medicine(宾夕法尼亚大学医学院);University of Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚大学);Geisinger(盖辛格医疗中心);Drexel University(德雷塞尔大学)
ASTA: Learning Analytical Semantics over Tables for Intelligent Data Analysis and Visualization
Beijing Normal University(北京师范大学);ETH Zurich(苏黎世联邦理工学院);Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学);Xi’an Jiaotong University(西安交通大学);Microsoft Research(微软研究院)