ChartWalker: Benchmarking the Cross-Chart RAG Task (opens in new tab)

Cross-Chart Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is critical for complex multi-modal analytical tasks in scientific, business, and political domains. However, existing benchmarks either focus on tables, which are well-structured and textualized, or generate cross-chart questions by simply extracting key points, which often induces lexical overlap between queries and evidence and yields logically inconsistent reasoning chains. To address this, we...