Summary of Datavist5: a Pre-trained Language Model For Jointly Understanding Text and Data Visualization, by Zhuoyue Wan et al.
DataVisT5: A Pre-trained Language Model for Jointly Understanding Text and Data Visualization
by Zhuoyue Wan, Yuanfeng Song, Shuaimin Li, Chen Jason Zhang, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Databases (cs.DB)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel pre-trained language model, DataVisT5, designed specifically for data visualization (DV). This model enhances the T5 architecture through a hybrid objective pre-training and multi-task fine-tuning strategy, integrating text and DV datasets to effectively interpret cross-modal semantics. The goal is to improve task automation in DV, such as converting natural language queries to visualizations, generating explanations from visualizations, answering DV-related questions, and explicating tabular data. DataVisT5 consistently outperforms current state-of-the-art models on various DV-related tasks, paving the way for further research and expanding the range of applications for pre-trained language models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Data visualization helps us understand big data better. The paper proposes a new tool to improve this process by using special AI models called pre-trained language models (PLMs). These models are good at understanding text and images, but they haven’t been used much in data visualization before because it’s hard to combine text and image information. The researchers created a new PLM called DataVisT5 that can do just that. They tested it on various tasks, such as converting text to visualizations and generating explanations from them. DataVisT5 performed better than other models, which is exciting because it could lead to many new applications for AI in data visualization. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Language model » Multi task » Semantics » T5
