HakushoBench: A Japanese Chart and Table VQA Benchmark from Governmental White Papers
Understanding chart and table images is essential for applying vision-language models (VLMs) to real-world document understanding. While English benchmarks have advanced rapidly, non-English counterparts remain scarce, leaving it unclear whether this progress generalizes across languages. A key obstacle is the difficulty of collecting realistic and diverse non-English chart and table images at scale. To address this, we leverage governmental white papers as a source for benchmark construction, as they contain naturally occurring charts and tables across diverse formats and domains and are freely accessible in many countries. As a first instantiation, we introduce HakushoBench, a Japanese ...
| Authors | Issa Sugiura, Shuhei Kurita, Yusuke Oda et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 31 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 2 October 2026 |
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