ChartLens: Fine-grained Visual Attribution in Charts

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Autores principales: Suri, Manan, Mathur, Puneet, Lipka, Nedim, Dernoncourt, Franck, Rossi, Ryan A., Manocha, Dinesh
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Publicado: 2025
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author Suri, Manan
Mathur, Puneet
Lipka, Nedim
Dernoncourt, Franck
Rossi, Ryan A.
Manocha, Dinesh
author_facet Suri, Manan
Mathur, Puneet
Lipka, Nedim
Dernoncourt, Franck
Rossi, Ryan A.
Manocha, Dinesh
contents The growing capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced tasks like chart understanding. However, these models often suffer from hallucinations, where generated text sequences conflict with the provided visual data. To address this, we introduce Post-Hoc Visual Attribution for Charts, which identifies fine-grained chart elements that validate a given chart-associated response. We propose ChartLens, a novel chart attribution algorithm that uses segmentation-based techniques to identify chart objects and employs set-of-marks prompting with MLLMs for fine-grained visual attribution. Additionally, we present ChartVA-Eval, a benchmark with synthetic and real-world charts from diverse domains like finance, policy, and economics, featuring fine-grained attribution annotations. Our evaluations show that ChartLens improves fine-grained attributions by 26-66%.
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spellingShingle ChartLens: Fine-grained Visual Attribution in Charts
Suri, Manan
Mathur, Puneet
Lipka, Nedim
Dernoncourt, Franck
Rossi, Ryan A.
Manocha, Dinesh
Computation and Language
The growing capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced tasks like chart understanding. However, these models often suffer from hallucinations, where generated text sequences conflict with the provided visual data. To address this, we introduce Post-Hoc Visual Attribution for Charts, which identifies fine-grained chart elements that validate a given chart-associated response. We propose ChartLens, a novel chart attribution algorithm that uses segmentation-based techniques to identify chart objects and employs set-of-marks prompting with MLLMs for fine-grained visual attribution. Additionally, we present ChartVA-Eval, a benchmark with synthetic and real-world charts from diverse domains like finance, policy, and economics, featuring fine-grained attribution annotations. Our evaluations show that ChartLens improves fine-grained attributions by 26-66%.
title ChartLens: Fine-grained Visual Attribution in Charts
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19360