arxiv: 2604.03157 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-03 · 💻 cs.AI

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Chart-RL: Policy Optimization Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Visual Reasoning in Chart Question Answering with Vision Language Models

Yunfei Bai , Amit Dhanda , Shekhar Jain

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Chart-RL uses RL policy optimization and LoRA to boost VLM chart reasoning, enabling a 4B model to reach 0.634 accuracy versus 0.580 for an 8B model with lower latency.

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Current vision-language models struggle with chart question answering because they extract numbers imprecisely, miss implicit visual relationships, and fail to focus on spatial layout. Chart-RL treats the model as a policy that receives feedback through reinforcement learning. It optimizes the policy using policy optimization techniques and custom reward functions that score both visual perception accuracy and logical inference quality. To keep training cheap, the method adds Low-Rank Adaptation so only small adapter weights are updated on a single GPU. Experiments compare the resulting 4B model against its 8B untuned version and other open and closed models on the ChartQAPro benchmark. The tuned smaller model records higher answer accuracy and much faster inference, showing that targeted RL feedback can compensate for reduced parameter count in this visual reasoning task.

Core claim

The RL fine-tuned Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct model achieved an answer accuracy of 0.634, surpassing the 0.580 accuracy of the Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct foundation model despite utilizing half the parameter count, while simultaneously reducing inference latency from 31 seconds to 9 seconds.

Load-bearing premise

That the adaptive reward functions and policy optimization steps produce genuine gains in visual reasoning rather than overfitting to the specific ChartQAPro dataset or rewarding superficial pattern matching.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.03157 by Amit Dhanda, Shekhar Jain, Yunfei Bai.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Overview of Chart-RL Framework. We !rst use data pipeline to construct training samples from pre-processed CQA dataset, then factorize policy optimization based reinforcement learning (GRPO/DAPO/GSPO) in the training pipeline. The trained policy model is then used in the inference pipeline to complete question-answering task through the enhanced visual understanding and reasoning by the VLMs. 3.2 Policy Op… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Reinforcement Learning Processes by GRPO, DAPO and GSPO. The training loss represents model’s error decreasing as it learns from the training data. The RL reward indicates the upward trend over time during the successful training run. The policy entropy demonstrates a stable non-zero level indicating the active, $exible and exploring training process. The episode mean length shows rapid and stable converge… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: illustrates that our models cluster within the Paretooptimal region, simultaneously achieving high accuracy and minimal inference latency, a favorable trade-o# for deployment in resource-constrained production environments. In the Figure, we present the performance distribution of evaluated models within a latency-accuracy coordinate space. This visualization facilitates model selection based on applica… view at source ↗

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The recent advancements in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated progress toward true intelligence requiring robust reasoning capabilities. Beyond pattern recognition, linguistic reasoning must integrate with visual comprehension, particularly for Chart Question Answering (CQA) tasks involving complex data visualizations. Current VLMs face significant limitations in CQA, including imprecise numerical extraction, difficulty interpreting implicit visual relationships, and inadequate attention mechanisms for capturing spatial relationships in charts. In this work, we address these challenges by presenting Chart-RL, a novel reinforcement learning framework that enhances VLMs chart understanding through feedback-driven policy optimization of visual perception and logical inference. Our key innovation includes a comprehensive framework integrating Reinforcement Learning (RL) from Policy Optimization techniques along with adaptive reward functions, that demonstrates superior performance compared to baseline foundation models and competitive results against larger state-of-the-art architectures. We also integrated Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning through Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) in the RL framework that only requires single GPU configurations while preserving performance integrity. We conducted extensive benchmarking across open-source, proprietary, and state-of-the-art closed-source models utilizing the ChartQAPro dataset. The RL fine-tuned Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct model achieved an answer accuracy of 0.634, surpassing the 0.580 accuracy of the Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct foundation model despite utilizing half the parameter count, while simultaneously reducing inference latency from 31 seconds to 9 seconds.

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RL-tuned 4B VLM beats 8B baseline on ChartQAPro accuracy and latency, but thin methods leave the gains hard to trust.

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The main thing to know is that their Chart-RL setup takes a 4B Qwen3-VL model, adds policy optimization RL with adaptive rewards plus LoRA, and reports it reaching 0.634 accuracy on ChartQAPro while the plain 8B version sits at 0.580, with inference dropping from 31s to 9s on one GPU. That efficiency angle is the practical hook. They frame it as fixing weak numerical extraction and spatial attention in charts by letting the model learn from feedback on perception and inference steps. The integration of RL from policy optimization with LoRA is the piece they present as new for this domain, and they benchmark against open, proprietary, and closed models on the same dataset. The numbers are concrete and the single-GPU claim is useful for anyone who cannot run big fine-tunes. What is missing is any real look inside the method. The abstract gives no equations or definitions for the adaptive reward functions, no ablation that isolates the RL step from plain supervised fine-tuning, and no error bars or significance numbers on the 0.054 lift. Without those controls it is difficult to tell whether the improvement comes from better visual reasoning or from the model picking up dataset-specific patterns. The paper is aimed at people building or tuning VLMs for data-visualization tools who want smaller, faster models that still handle charts. A reader who needs a starting recipe for RL-based chart fine-tuning could pull ideas from it, but anyone wanting to replicate or extend the result will have to guess at the reward design. It is solid enough on the empirical side to deserve a serious referee rather than a desk reject; the performance point is worth checking even if the current write-up leaves the causal story incomplete. I would send it to review.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces Chart-RL, a reinforcement learning framework that applies policy optimization with adaptive reward functions and LoRA-based fine-tuning to improve vision-language models on chart question answering. It reports that the resulting Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct model reaches 0.634 accuracy on ChartQAPro, exceeding the 0.580 accuracy of the larger Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct baseline while cutting inference latency from 31 s to 9 s.

Significance. If the performance gains are shown to be robust, the work would demonstrate that RL-driven policy optimization can produce smaller, faster VLMs that outperform larger foundation models on visual reasoning tasks, with clear implications for efficient deployment in chart interpretation applications.

major comments (3)

[Abstract] Abstract: the reported 0.634 vs. 0.580 accuracy improvement is presented without error bars, number of evaluation runs, or statistical significance tests, leaving the central performance claim only weakly supported.
[Method] Method section: the adaptive reward functions and the precise policy optimization objective are described only at a high level with no equations, pseudocode, or implementation details, which are load-bearing for reproducing and validating the claimed gains in visual reasoning.
[Experiments] Experiments: no ablation studies, SFT-only baselines, or training curves are provided to isolate the contribution of the RL policy optimization step versus LoRA or dataset-specific effects, undermining the claim that the improvements stem from enhanced visual reasoning rather than overfitting.

minor comments (1)

[Abstract] Abstract: the latency figures (31 s to 9 s) should specify the hardware platform, batch size, and whether measurements include any post-processing steps.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We agree that the current presentation of results and methods requires strengthening for reproducibility and to better isolate the contributions of our approach. Below we address each major comment and describe the revisions we will make.

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Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the reported 0.634 vs. 0.580 accuracy improvement is presented without error bars, number of evaluation runs, or statistical significance tests, leaving the central performance claim only weakly supported.

Authors: We agree that the performance claims would be more robust with statistical support. In the revised manuscript we will report mean accuracy and standard deviation over five independent evaluation runs for both the 4B and 8B models, include error bars in the abstract and results tables, and add a paired t-test to assess statistical significance of the 0.634 vs. 0.580 difference. revision: yes
Referee: [Method] Method section: the adaptive reward functions and the precise policy optimization objective are described only at a high level with no equations, pseudocode, or implementation details, which are load-bearing for reproducing and validating the claimed gains in visual reasoning.

Authors: We acknowledge the need for greater technical detail. The revised method section will include the full policy optimization objective (including the adaptive reward formulation), the exact loss function, and pseudocode for the training loop. We will also add implementation specifics such as LoRA rank, learning-rate schedule, reward scaling coefficients, and the precise form of the adaptive reward components. revision: yes
Referee: [Experiments] Experiments: no ablation studies, SFT-only baselines, or training curves are provided to isolate the contribution of the RL policy optimization step versus LoRA or dataset-specific effects, undermining the claim that the improvements stem from enhanced visual reasoning rather than overfitting.

Authors: We agree that additional controls are necessary to substantiate the source of the gains. In the revision we will add (1) an SFT-only baseline using the same LoRA configuration and dataset, (2) ablation variants that disable the adaptive reward or the policy-optimization step, (3) training curves for both reward and accuracy, and (4) evaluation on a held-out subset of ChartQAPro to address overfitting concerns. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper describes an empirical RL+LoRA framework for VLM fine-tuning on ChartQAPro, reporting direct accuracy and latency comparisons against external baselines (Qwen3-VL-8B, other open/closed models). No equations, derivations, or first-principles claims appear in the provided text; the central result is a measured performance delta rather than a reduction of any quantity to its own fitted inputs or self-citations. The absence of any load-bearing theoretical step means the reported numbers stand or fall on experimental controls, not on definitional equivalence.

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The central claim rests on the unproven assumption that policy optimization with adaptive rewards improves genuine visual reasoning rather than dataset-specific shortcuts; no free parameters or invented entities are named in the abstract.

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domain assumption Reinforcement learning from policy optimization improves visual perception and logical inference in VLMs for chart tasks
Invoked as the key mechanism but not derived or justified beyond the reported benchmark outcome.

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Identify which bars are blue and which are yellow in the chart

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Sum up all the blue bars

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Sum up all the yellow bars

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Right” in the legend • The yellow bars appear to be labeled as “Centre

Calculate the di#erence between these sums Looking at the chart: • The blue bars appear to be labeled as “Right” in the legend • The yellow bars appear to be labeled as “Centre” in the legend Blue bars (Right) values: • Kevin Rudd: 32 • Julia Gillard: 38 • Don’t know: 30 Sum of blue bars = 32 + 38 + 30 = 100 Yellow bars (Centre) values: • Kevin Rudd: 55 •...

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Right”) have values: 32 (Kevin Rudd), 38 (Julia Gillard), and 30 (Don’t know). • Yellow bars (representing “Centre

Subtract the sum of the yellow bars from the sum of the blue bars. From the chart: • Blue bars (representing “Right”) have values: 32 (Kevin Rudd), 38 (Julia Gillard), and 30 (Don’t know). • Yellow bars (representing “Centre”) have values: 55 (Kevin Rudd), 27 (Julia Gillard), and 18 (Don’t know). Sum of blue bars = 32 + 38 + 30 = 100. Sum of yellow bars =...

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Identify all the blue bars and sum their values

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Identify all the yellow bars and sum their values

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Right”) have values: 32 (Kevin Rudd), 38 (Julia Gillard), and 30 (Don’t know). • Yellow bars (representing “Centre

Subtract the sum of the yellow bars from the sum of the blue bars. From the chart: • Blue bars (representing “Right”) have values: 32 (Kevin Rudd), 38 (Julia Gillard), and 30 (Don’t know). • Yellow bars (representing “Centre”) have values: 55 (Kevin Rudd), 27 (Julia Gillard), and 18 (Don’t know). Sum of blue bars = 32 + 38 + 30 = 100 Sum of yellow bars = ...

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Identify the values of all blue bars (representing “Right”)

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Identify the values of all yellow bars (representing “Centre”)

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Sum the values of the blue bars

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Sum the values of the yellow bars

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Subtract the sum of the yellow bars from the sum of the blue bars. From the chart: Blue bars (Right): • Kevin Rudd: 32 • Julia Gillard: 38 • Don’t know: 30 • Sum of blue bars = 32 + 38 + 30 = 100 Yellow bars (Centre): • Kevin Rudd: 55 • Julia Gillard: 27 • Don’t know: 18 • Sum of yellow bars = 55 + 27 + 18 = 100 Now, calculate the di#erence: Di#erence = S...

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Identify the pension fund assets values from 2010 to 2014

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Calculate the growth trend during this period

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Apply this trend to estimate the 2015 value

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OPEN CASES: BY CREATED DATE

Compare the result with the given options Looking at the chart, I can approximate the values: • 2010: ↔1,800 N billion • 2011: ↔2,400 N billion • 2012: ↔2,700 N billion • 2013: ↔3,800 N billion • 2014: ↔4,500 N billion I can calculate the year-over-year growth rates: • 2010 to 2011: (2400-1800)/1800 = 600/1800 = 0.33 or 33% • 2011 to 2012: (2700-2400)/240...

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X-axis: Case Creation Date (ranging from approxi- mately April to August)

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Y-axis: Account Value (ranging from $0 to approxi- mately $150K)

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OPEN CASES: BY CREATED DATE

Bubbles of di#erent sizes and colors (green and red) representing open cases To determine if there’s a positive correlation, I need to see if there’s a trend where account values increase as the creation date becomes more recent. Looking at the scatter plot: • The data points are scattered across the entire date range • There are high-value accounts (arou...

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OPEN CASES • BY CREATED DATE

Understand the chart: The top-left chart is titled “OPEN CASES • BY CREATED DATE. ” It plots “Account Value” (y-axis) against “Case Creation Date” (x-axis). The data points are represented by circles, with size possibly indicating case volume or importance

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positive correlation

What does “positive correlation” mean? A positive correlation implies that as one variable increases, the other variable also tends to increase. In this case, if account value increases as case creation date moves forward (e.g., from early to late months), then there’s a positive correlation

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• The y-axis represents account value, ranging from $0K to $200K

Analyze the chart visually: • The x-axis represents case creation dates, spanning from early April to late June. • The y-axis represents account value, ranging from $0K to $200K. • The data points (circles) are clustered in di#erent re- gions. Notice that the largest circles (representing higher account values) appear toward the right side of the chart (l...

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• This indicates that as the case creation date progresses, account value tends to increase — which is consistent with a positive correlation

Interpretation: • The trend suggests that cases created later in the pe- riod (right side of the x-axis) tend to have higher ac- count values (top of the y-axis). • This indicates that as the case creation date progresses, account value tends to increase — which is consistent with a positive correlation

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</think> <answer> True </answer>

Conclusion: • The visual pattern supports the claim of a positive correlation between account value and case creation date. </think> <answer> True </answer>

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