ChartQA
15 models tested · Updated 2026-04-06 · Verified sources only
Vero Q3I-8B leads at 91.6%
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Vero Team · arxiv/2604.04917 · 2026-04-06
Open RL fine-tune of Qwen3-VL 8B Inst. Matches proprietary models on 30 benchmarks. New open 8B SOTA on ChartQA.
91.6%
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Vero Team · arxiv/2604.04917 · 2026-04-06
Fine-tune of Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking. Slightly below Instruct variant on ChartQA.
90.8%
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Apple · arxiv/2603.06569 · 2026-03-06
Compact 8B VLM using LLM-based vision encoder outperforms Qwen3-VL 8B (89.6) and InternVL3.5 8B (86.7) on ChartQA.
90.5%
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Vero Team · arxiv/2604.04917 · 2026-04-06
Fine-tune of MiMoVL 7B. Strong ChartQA for 7B class.
90.4%
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Baidu · arxiv/2603.13398 · 2026-03-11
Best chart understanding among evaluated models. End-to-end OCR with native chart reasoning.
88.1%
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Research · arxiv/2604.08539 · 2026-04-09
Surpasses Gemini 2.5 Pro on ChartQA; 8B model trained with Gaussian GRPO.
87.4%
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arxiv · arxiv/2604.08539 · 2026-04-09
Introduces Gaussian GRPO (G2RPO), replacing standard linear scaling in GRPO with non-linear distributional matching. OpenVLThinkerV2-7B achieves new SOTA for open-source 7B models on MMMU (71.6%), Mat
87.4%
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Q-Mask Team · arxiv/2604.00161 · 2026-03-31
3B model with query-driven spatial priors outperforms many 8B models on text-heavy tasks.
87.2%
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arxiv · arxiv/2604.08539 · 2026-04-09
8B open-weight multimodal model trained with GRPO+GDPO. Competitive with Gemini 2.5 Pro on DocVQA and chart understanding. New SOTA for open-weight VLMs on MMMU.
86.7%
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Apple · arxiv/2603.06569 · 2026-03-06
2B model matches OpenVLThinkerV2 8B (87.4) and beats Gemma E2B on ChartQA using LLM-based vision encoder.
86.6%
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arxiv · arxiv/2603.13398 · 2026-03-11
4B end-to-end OCR model that ranks #1 on OmniDocBench among end-to-end models. Introduces "Layout-as-Thought" for structured layout representations. Outperforms Qwen3-VL-4B on ChartQA (+4.8) and Chart
83.2%
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arxiv · arxiv/2604.08539 · 2026-04-09
8B open-weight multimodal model trained with GRPO+GDPO. Competitive with Gemini 2.5 Pro on DocVQA and chart understanding. New SOTA for open-weight VLMs on MMMU.
82.8%
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University · arxiv/2603.07494 · 2026-03-08
Layout-aware document reasoning model. Achieves 82.5 on ChartQA via structured Visual-Semantic Chain reasoning with layout priors.
82.5%
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Q-Mask Team · arxiv/2604.00161 · 2026-03-31
Qwen3-VL-2B backbone with spatial pretraining. Strong for 2B class.
81.7%
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arxiv · arxiv/2603.13398 · 2026-03-11
4B end-to-end OCR model that ranks #1 on OmniDocBench among end-to-end models. Introduces "Layout-as-Thought" for structured layout representations. Outperforms Qwen3-VL-4B on ChartQA (+4.8) and Chart
76.6%