ChartAnno: Evaluating MLLMs for Chart Annotation Generation
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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. 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. To address this gap, we introduce ChartAnno, a benchmark for evaluating MLLMs on chart annotation generation. It contains 1,200 real-world charts with paired code and anno
Key takeaways
- 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.
- 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.
- To address this gap, we introduce ChartAnno, a benchmark for evaluating MLLMs on chart annotation generation.
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