ChartM$^3$: Benchmarking Chart Editing with Multimodal Instructions

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Main Authors: Yang, Donglu, Zhang, Liang, Yue, Zihao, Chen, Liangyu, Xu, Yichen, Wang, Wenxuan, Jin, Qin
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author Yang, Donglu
Zhang, Liang
Yue, Zihao
Chen, Liangyu
Xu, Yichen
Wang, Wenxuan
Jin, Qin
author_facet Yang, Donglu
Zhang, Liang
Yue, Zihao
Chen, Liangyu
Xu, Yichen
Wang, Wenxuan
Jin, Qin
contents Charts are a fundamental visualization format widely used in data analysis across research and industry. While enabling users to edit charts based on high-level intentions is of great practical value, existing methods primarily rely on natural language instructions, which are often too ambiguous to support fine-grained editing. In this work, we introduce a novel paradigm for multimodal chart editing, where user intent is expressed through a combination of natural language and visual indicators that explicitly highlight the elements to be modified. To support this paradigm, we present Chart$\text{M}^3$, a new benchmark for Multimodal chart editing with Multi-level complexity and Multi-perspective evaluation. Chart$\text{M}^3$ contains 1,000 samples spanning four levels of editing difficulty. Each sample includes triplets in the form of (chart, code, multimodal instructions). To comprehensively evaluate chart editing models, Chart$\text{M}^3$ provides metrics that assess both visual appearance and code correctness. Our benchmark reveals significant limitations in current multimodal large language models (MLLMs), including GPT-4o, particularly in their ability to interpret and act on visual indicators. To address this, we construct Chart$\text{M}^3$-Train, a large-scale training set with 24,000 multimodal chart editing samples. Fine-tuning MLLMs on this dataset leads to substantial improvements, demonstrating the importance of multimodal supervision in building practical chart editing systems. Our datasets, codes, and evaluation tools are available at https://github.com/MLrollIT/ChartM3. %https://github.com/MLrollIT/ChartM3Our datasets, codes, and evaluation tools are available at https://github.com/yaolinli/VCE.
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spellingShingle ChartM$^3$: Benchmarking Chart Editing with Multimodal Instructions
Yang, Donglu
Zhang, Liang
Yue, Zihao
Chen, Liangyu
Xu, Yichen
Wang, Wenxuan
Jin, Qin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Charts are a fundamental visualization format widely used in data analysis across research and industry. While enabling users to edit charts based on high-level intentions is of great practical value, existing methods primarily rely on natural language instructions, which are often too ambiguous to support fine-grained editing. In this work, we introduce a novel paradigm for multimodal chart editing, where user intent is expressed through a combination of natural language and visual indicators that explicitly highlight the elements to be modified. To support this paradigm, we present Chart$\text{M}^3$, a new benchmark for Multimodal chart editing with Multi-level complexity and Multi-perspective evaluation. Chart$\text{M}^3$ contains 1,000 samples spanning four levels of editing difficulty. Each sample includes triplets in the form of (chart, code, multimodal instructions). To comprehensively evaluate chart editing models, Chart$\text{M}^3$ provides metrics that assess both visual appearance and code correctness. Our benchmark reveals significant limitations in current multimodal large language models (MLLMs), including GPT-4o, particularly in their ability to interpret and act on visual indicators. To address this, we construct Chart$\text{M}^3$-Train, a large-scale training set with 24,000 multimodal chart editing samples. Fine-tuning MLLMs on this dataset leads to substantial improvements, demonstrating the importance of multimodal supervision in building practical chart editing systems. Our datasets, codes, and evaluation tools are available at https://github.com/MLrollIT/ChartM3. %https://github.com/MLrollIT/ChartM3Our datasets, codes, and evaluation tools are available at https://github.com/yaolinli/VCE.
title ChartM$^3$: Benchmarking Chart Editing with Multimodal Instructions
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21167