ChartMimic: Evaluating LMM's Cross-Modal Reasoning Capability via Chart-to-Code Generation

ICLR 2025 Conference Submission723 Authors

Keywords: Dataset and Benchmark, Code generation, Chart Understand and Reasoning

TL;DR: A benchmark for evaluating LMM’s cross-modal reasoning capability via chart-to-code generation

Abstract:

We introduce a new benchmark, ChartMimic, aimed at assessing the visually-grounded code generation capabilities of large multimodal models (LMMs). ChartMimic utilizes information-intensive visual charts and textual instructions as inputs, requiring LMMs to generate the corresponding code for chart rendering.
ChartMimic includes $4,800$ human-curated (figure, instruction, code) triplets, which represent the authentic chart use cases found in scientific papers across various domains (e.g., Physics, Computer Science, Economics, etc). These charts span $18$ regular types and $4$ advanced types, diversifying into $201$ subcategories.
Furthermore, we propose multi-level evaluation metrics to provide an automatic and thorough assessment of the output code and the rendered charts.
Unlike existing code generation benchmarks, ChartMimic places emphasis on evaluating LMMs' capacity to harmonize a blend of cognitive capabilities, encompassing visual understanding, code generation, and cross-modal reasoning. The evaluation of $3$ proprietary models and $14$ open-weight models highlights the substantial challenges posed by ChartMimic. Even the advanced GPT-4o, InternVL2-Llama3-76B only achieve an average score of $82.2$ and $61.6$, respectively, indicating significant room for improvement.
We anticipate that ChartMimic will inspire the development of LMMs, advancing the pursuit of artificial general intelligence.

Primary Area: datasets and benchmarks

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Submission Number: 723