# lmm-graphical-perception

**Repository Path**: mirrors_microsoft/lmm-graphical-perception

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: lmm-graphical-perception
- **Description**: Evaluating Graphical Perception of Large Multimodal Models
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

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- **Created**: 2025-03-14
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-07

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## README

## Evaluating Graphical Perception of Large Multimodal Models
Source code and data for the Graphical Perception Evaluation and Study: [Zhang et al. 2025](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10857)


### Chart Reasoning (RQ1 and RQ2 in the paper)
To get started, copy `openai-keys.env.template` into a file named `openai-keys.env` and fill necessary environment variables (supports only AzureOpenAI keys at the moment). 
Azure OpenAI keys will be used by `agents/client.py` to initialize models.

#### Env Setup
```bash
conda create --prefix ./env/graphical_perception  python=3.9 -y

conda activate ./env/graphical_perception

pip install -r requirements.txt
```
#### Vis-text Data Downloading

```bash
cd data
chmod 777 download_data.sh
./download_data.sh --scenegraphs --vl_spec
```

#### OpenAI Key Setup

```bash
cp openai-keys.env.template openai-keys.env
```
then edit `openai-keys.env` with your own keys.

#### Run Chart Reasoning Pipeline

In `labs/`, run `chart-reasoning-pipeline.ipynb` to generate tasks, run GPT-4o/4v (determined by `chart_reasoning/utils/clients.py`), and get results evaluated by GPT-4o/4v and the detailed metrics.
Note that table generation needs executable Chrome browser.
To evaluate and get the final metrics for open-source models, please run `chart-reasoning-oss-pipeline.ipynb`


### Chart Probing (RQ3 in the paper)
Please refer to `chart_probing/README.md` for more details.


### Questions or Bugs?
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact `drogozhang[AT]gmail[DOT]com` or open an issue so we can help you better and quicker :)


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