arxivcs.CVcs.HC2026-07-17
Attention-Guided Saliency Maps for Interpreting Visualization Literacy in VLMs
Maeve Hutchinson, Abderrahmane Wassim Mehdaoui, Pranava Madhyastha
Understanding how vision-language models (VLMs) interpret data visualizations remains an open problem, and is increasingly important as these models are used for analytical tasks where reliable reasoning is essential. We introduce a lightweight, diagnostic saliency map method tai…