VIS-Shepherd: Constructing Critic for LLM-based Data Visualization Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13326v1
• Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:15:38 GMT
• Title: VIS-Shepherd: Constructing Critic for LLM-based Data Visualization Generation
• Authors: Bo Pan, Yixiao Fu, Ke Wang, Junyu Lu, Lunke Pan, Ziyang Qian, Yuhan Chen, Guoliang Wang, Yitao Zhou, Li Zheng, Yinghao Tang, Zhen Wen, Yuchen Wu, Junhua Lu, Biao Zhu, Minfeng Zhu, Bo Zhang, Wei Chen,
• Abstract summary: We introduce VIS-Shepherd, a specialized Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)-based critic.<n>At the core of our approach is a framework to construct a high-quality visualization critique dataset.<n>Our experiments show that even small (7B parameters) open-source MLLM models achieve substantial performance gains.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Data visualization generation using Large Language Models (LLMs) has shown promising results but often produces suboptimal visualizations that require human intervention for improvement. In this work, we introduce VIS-Shepherd, a specialized Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)-based critic to evaluate and provide feedback for LLM-generated data visualizations. At the core of our approach is a framework to construct a high-quality visualization critique dataset, where we collect human-created visualization instances, synthesize corresponding LLM-generated instances, and construct high-quality critiques. We conduct both model-based automatic evaluation and human preference studies to evaluate the effectiveness of our approach. Our experiments show that even small (7B parameters) open-source MLLM models achieve substantial performance gains by leveraging our high-quality visualization critique dataset, reaching levels comparable to much larger open-source or even proprietary models. Our work demonstrates significant potential for MLLM-based automated visualization critique and indicates promising directions for enhancing LLM-based data visualization generation. Our project page: https://github.com/bopan3/VIS-Shepherd.

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