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ChartQA: A Benchmark for Question Answering about Charts with Visual and Logical Reasoning

2022/03/19 by Ahmed Masry, Masry, Ahmed, Do Xuan Long +7 · 297 citations
Computer Science · #Advanced Text Analysis Techniques #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Data Management and Algorithms #Data Visualization and Analytics #FOS: Computer and information sciences

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2203.10244

openalex publication_date 2022/03/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Charts are very popular for analyzing data. When exploring charts, people often ask a variety of complex reasoning questions that involve several logical and arithmetic operations. They also commonly refer to visual features of a chart in their questions. However, most existing datasets do not focus on such complex reasoning questions as their questions are template-based and answers come from a fixed-vocabulary. In this work, we present a large-scale benchmark covering 9.6K human-written questions as well as 23.1K questions generated from human-written chart summaries. To address the unique challenges in our benchmark involving visual and logical reasoning over charts, we present two transformer-based models that combine visual features and the data table of the chart in a unified way to answer questions. While our models achieve the state-of-the-art results on the previous datasets as well as on our benchmark, the evaluation also reveals several challenges in answering complex reasoning questions.

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