nvBench 2.0: Resolving Ambiguity in Text-to-Visualization through Stepwise Reasoning

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Luo, Tianqi, Huang, Chuhan, Shen, Leixian, Li, Boyan, Shen, Shuyu, Zeng, Wei, Tang, Nan, Luo, Yuyu
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866909980486008832
author Luo, Tianqi
Huang, Chuhan
Shen, Leixian
Li, Boyan
Shen, Shuyu
Zeng, Wei
Tang, Nan
Luo, Yuyu
author_facet Luo, Tianqi
Huang, Chuhan
Shen, Leixian
Li, Boyan
Shen, Shuyu
Zeng, Wei
Tang, Nan
Luo, Yuyu
contents Text-to-Visualization (Text2VIS) enables users to create visualizations from natural language queries, making data insights more accessible. However, Text2VIS faces challenges in interpreting ambiguous queries, as users often express their visualization needs in imprecise language. To address this challenge, we introduce nBench 2.0, a new benchmark designed to evaluate Text2VIS systems in scenarios involving ambiguous queries. nvBench 2.0 includes 7,878 natural language queries and 24,076 corresponding visualizations, derived from 780 tables across 153 domains. It is built using a controlled ambiguity-injection pipeline that generates ambiguous queries through a reverse-generation workflow. By starting with unambiguous seed visualizations and selectively injecting ambiguities, the pipeline yields multiple valid interpretations for each query, with each ambiguous query traceable to its corresponding visualization through step-wise reasoning paths. We evaluate various Large Language Models (LLMs) on their ability to perform ambiguous Text2VIS tasks using nBench 2.0. We also propose Step-Text2Vis, an LLM-based model trained on nvBench 2.0, which enhances performance in ambiguous scenarios through step-wise preference optimization. Our results show that Step-Text2Vis outperforms all baselines, setting a new state-of-the-art for ambiguous Text2VIS tasks. Our source code and data are available at https://nvbench2.github.io/
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2503_12880
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle nvBench 2.0: Resolving Ambiguity in Text-to-Visualization through Stepwise Reasoning
Luo, Tianqi
Huang, Chuhan
Shen, Leixian
Li, Boyan
Shen, Shuyu
Zeng, Wei
Tang, Nan
Luo, Yuyu
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Text-to-Visualization (Text2VIS) enables users to create visualizations from natural language queries, making data insights more accessible. However, Text2VIS faces challenges in interpreting ambiguous queries, as users often express their visualization needs in imprecise language. To address this challenge, we introduce nBench 2.0, a new benchmark designed to evaluate Text2VIS systems in scenarios involving ambiguous queries. nvBench 2.0 includes 7,878 natural language queries and 24,076 corresponding visualizations, derived from 780 tables across 153 domains. It is built using a controlled ambiguity-injection pipeline that generates ambiguous queries through a reverse-generation workflow. By starting with unambiguous seed visualizations and selectively injecting ambiguities, the pipeline yields multiple valid interpretations for each query, with each ambiguous query traceable to its corresponding visualization through step-wise reasoning paths. We evaluate various Large Language Models (LLMs) on their ability to perform ambiguous Text2VIS tasks using nBench 2.0. We also propose Step-Text2Vis, an LLM-based model trained on nvBench 2.0, which enhances performance in ambiguous scenarios through step-wise preference optimization. Our results show that Step-Text2Vis outperforms all baselines, setting a new state-of-the-art for ambiguous Text2VIS tasks. Our source code and data are available at https://nvbench2.github.io/
title nvBench 2.0: Resolving Ambiguity in Text-to-Visualization through Stepwise Reasoning
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12880