arxivcs.AIcs.CLcs.HC2026-07-16
Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Scientific Visualization Literacy
Patrick Phuoc Do, Chau M. Ta, Chaoli Wang
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly used to interpret visualizations, yet current evaluations remain largely chart-centric and provide limited evidence of understanding of scientific visualization (SciVis). We benchmark six MLLMs on the scientific visualizat…