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Structure-Token Evidence-Anchored Reasoning for Scientific Chart Understanding

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 7, 2026 · UTC

Scientific charts encode quantities in axes, legends, and geometric marks, yet large vision-language models still treat them as natural photographs. Visual in-context examples do not expose the coordinate frame; unconstrained chain-of-thought can name a plausible number that was never read from a bar. We present STEER (Structure-Token Evidence-anchored Reasoning), which freezes a Llama-3.2-Vision encoder and inserts three modules: a chart structure graph encoder (CSGE) that binds ticks, legend items, and marks; evidence-anchored step reasoning (EASR) that forces every arithmetic step to cite a

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