IGenBench: Benchmarking the Reliability of Text-to-Infographic Generation

Yinghao Tang, Xueding Liu, Boyuan Zhang, Tingfeng Lan, Yupeng Xie, Jiale Lao, Yiyao Wang, Haoxuan Li, Tingting Gao, Bo Pan, Luoxuan Weng, Xiuqi Huang, Minfeng Zhu, Yingchaojie Feng, Yuyu Luo, Wei Chen

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026

Project

• IGenBench is the first benchmark for evaluating reliability in text-to-infographic generation.
• It contains 600 curated test cases across 30 infographic types with automated reliability verification.

DeepEye: A Steerable Self-driving Data Agent System

Boyan Li, Yiran Peng, Yupeng Xie, Sirong Lu, Yizhang Zhu, Xing Mu, Xinyu Liu, Yuyu Luo

ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (Demo), 2026

• 🏅 Silver Medal, 51st Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions
• 🏆 Best Open-source Project Award, AI Agent 2025 Competition

VisJudge-Bench: Aesthetics and Quality Assessment of Visualizations

Yupeng Xie, Zhiyang Zhang, Yifan Wu, Sirong Lu, Jiayi Zhang, Zhaoyang Yu, Jinlin Wang, Sirui Hong, Bang Liu, Chenglin Wu, Yuyu Luo

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

GitHub

• VisJudge-Bench is the first comprehensive benchmark for evaluating MLLMs’ performance in assessing visualization aesthetics and quality.
• Contains 3,090 expert-annotated samples covering single visualizations, multiple visualizations, and dashboards across 32 chart types.
• We propose VisJudge, a model that significantly narrows the gap with human judgment compared to GPT-5.

ChartMark: A Structured Grammar for Chart Annotation

Yiyu Chen, Yifan Wu, Shuyu Shen, Yupeng Xie, Leixian Shen, Hui Xiong, Yuyu Luo

IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS) Short Paper, 2025

Project

• ChartMark is a high-level grammar for chart annotation with declarative JSON syntax.
• Provides automatic positioning and supports multiple annotation techniques.

HAIChart: Human and AI Paired Visualization System

Yupeng Xie, Yuyu Luo, Guoliang Li, Nan Tang

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 17 (11), 3178–3191, 2024

GitHub

• HAIChart is a novel human-AI paired visualization system that combines the strengths of human expertise and AI capabilities.
• The system enables interactive and collaborative data visualization creation between humans and AI.

Navi: A Natural Language-powered Data Analytics System

Yupeng Xie, Yuyu Luo, Jianhua Feng

Journal of Software, 2024, 35(3)
🏆 《软件学报》2024年高被关注研究论文

• Navi is a natural language-powered data analytics system with modular design: data querying, visualization generation, and visualization exploration.
• Uses natural language as a unified interface and a task scheduler for effective module collaboration.
• Proposes Monte Carlo Tree Search-based automated visualization exploration with domain-knowledge pruning and composite reward functions.

Intelligent Data Visualization Analysis Techniques: A Survey

Yuyu Luo, Xuedi Qin, Yupeng Xie, Guoliang Li

Journal of Software, 2024, 35(1): 356-404
🏆 《软件学报》2024年高被关注综述论文

• A comprehensive survey on intelligent data visualization analysis techniques.
• Covers data preparation, visualization generation, and analysis recommendation methods.