WidgetVA: A Widget-Centric Framework and Benchmark for Agentic Visual Analytics

arXiv:2609.24094 · cs.HC, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-21 · Read on arXiv

cs.HC, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-21

Updated: 2026-09-21

Code: https://github.com/Hiverwin/widgetva

Project page: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/interactive_seattle_weather.html

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Trace — 71× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 31× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 28× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 15× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 7× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Verification — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic System — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Vision-Language Models (VLMs) — 4× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Vision-language models — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Failure Modes — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• State Management — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Concept Drift — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• For Target-Unknown — 1× in this paper
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• LLM judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Task Planning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• MathVista: Evaluating Mathematical Reasoning of Foundation Models in Visual Contexts

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