End-to-End Chart Summarization via Visual Chain-of-Thought in Vision-Language Models
Automated chart summarization is crucial for enhancing data accessibility and enabling efficient information extraction from visual data. While recent advances in visual-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated promise, existing methods often suffer from limitations in matching the generated summary to the chart data and in reasoning about complex chart patterns. This paper introduces End-to-End Visual Chain-of-Thought (V-CoT) for chart summarization, a novel approach optimized for Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). Our method directly trains an LVLM to process chart images and generate textual summaries in an end-to-end fashion, eliminating the need for explicit chart parsing modules. We incorporate a visual Chain-of-Thought mechanism through instruction fine-tuning, implicitly guiding the LVLM to perform visual reasoning steps during summary generation. Evaluated on the large-scale Chart-Sum-QA dataset, our V-CoT method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines across a range of automatic metrics, including BLEU, BLEURT, CIDEr, and CS, and demonstrates superior matching degree and reasoning correctness in human evaluations. Ablation studies and detailed analyses further validate the effectiveness and robustness of our proposed approach, establishing a new benchmark for end-to-end chart summarization.
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