EvoChart: A Benchmark and a Self-Training Approach Towards Real-World Chart Understanding

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Hauptverfasser: Huang, Muye, Lai, Han, Zhang, Xinyu, Wu, Wenjun, Ma, Jie, Zhang, Lingling, Liu, Jun
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author Huang, Muye
Lai, Han
Zhang, Xinyu
Wu, Wenjun
Ma, Jie
Zhang, Lingling
Liu, Jun
author_facet Huang, Muye
Lai, Han
Zhang, Xinyu
Wu, Wenjun
Ma, Jie
Zhang, Lingling
Liu, Jun
contents Chart understanding enables automated data analysis for humans, which requires models to achieve highly accurate visual comprehension. While existing Visual Language Models (VLMs) have shown progress in chart understanding, the lack of high-quality training data and comprehensive evaluation benchmarks hinders VLM chart comprehension. In this paper, we introduce EvoChart, a novel self-training method for generating synthetic chart data to enhance VLMs' capabilities in real-world chart comprehension. We also propose EvoChart-QA, a noval benchmark for measuring models' chart comprehension abilities in real-world scenarios. Specifically, EvoChart is a unique self-training data synthesis approach that simultaneously produces high-quality training corpus and a high-performance chart understanding model. EvoChart-QA consists of 650 distinct real-world charts collected from 140 different websites and 1,250 expert-curated questions that focus on chart understanding. Experimental results on various open-source and proprietary VLMs tested on EvoChart-QA demonstrate that even the best proprietary model, GPT-4o, achieves only 49.8% accuracy. Moreover, the EvoChart method significantly boosts the performance of open-source VLMs on real-world chart understanding tasks, achieving 54.2% accuracy on EvoChart-QA.
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spellingShingle EvoChart: A Benchmark and a Self-Training Approach Towards Real-World Chart Understanding
Huang, Muye
Lai, Han
Zhang, Xinyu
Wu, Wenjun
Ma, Jie
Zhang, Lingling
Liu, Jun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Chart understanding enables automated data analysis for humans, which requires models to achieve highly accurate visual comprehension. While existing Visual Language Models (VLMs) have shown progress in chart understanding, the lack of high-quality training data and comprehensive evaluation benchmarks hinders VLM chart comprehension. In this paper, we introduce EvoChart, a novel self-training method for generating synthetic chart data to enhance VLMs' capabilities in real-world chart comprehension. We also propose EvoChart-QA, a noval benchmark for measuring models' chart comprehension abilities in real-world scenarios. Specifically, EvoChart is a unique self-training data synthesis approach that simultaneously produces high-quality training corpus and a high-performance chart understanding model. EvoChart-QA consists of 650 distinct real-world charts collected from 140 different websites and 1,250 expert-curated questions that focus on chart understanding. Experimental results on various open-source and proprietary VLMs tested on EvoChart-QA demonstrate that even the best proprietary model, GPT-4o, achieves only 49.8% accuracy. Moreover, the EvoChart method significantly boosts the performance of open-source VLMs on real-world chart understanding tasks, achieving 54.2% accuracy on EvoChart-QA.
title EvoChart: A Benchmark and a Self-Training Approach Towards Real-World Chart Understanding
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01577