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 1,000 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 191 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 11 open-weight models highlights the substantial challenges posed by ChartMimic. Even the advanced GPT-4V, Claude-3-opus only achieve an average score of 73.2 and 53.7, respectively, indicating significant room for improvement. We anticipate that ChartMimic will inspire the development of LMMs, advancing the pursuit of artificial general intelligence.
You can directly download our data from Huggingface datasets. For guidance on how to access and utilize the data, please consult our instructions on Github.
@article{
shi2024chartmimic,
title={ChartMimic: Evaluating LMM’s Cross-Modal Reasoning Capability via Chart-to-Code Generation},
author={Chufan Shi and Cheng Yang and Yaxin Liu and Bo Shui and Junjie Wang and Mohan Jing and Linran Xu and Xinyu Zhu and Siheng Li and Yuxiang Zhang and Gongye Liu and Xiaomei Nie and Deng Cai and Yujiu Yang},
year={2024},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.09961},
}
If you have any inquiries about ChartMimic, feel free to reach out to us at chartmimic@gmail.com, {scf22, yangc21}@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn or raise an issue on Github.