Quanfeng Lu
2026
TVWorld: Foundations for Remote-Control TV Agents
Zhantao Ma | Quanfeng Lu | Shuai Zhong | Dahai Yu | Ping Luo | Michael Ng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Zhantao Ma | Quanfeng Lu | Shuai Zhong | Dahai Yu | Ping Luo | Michael Ng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Recent large vision–language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated strong potential for device control. However, existing research has primarily focused on point-and-click (PnC) interaction, while remote-control (RC) interaction commonly encountered in everyday TV usage remains largely underexplored. To fill this gap, we introduce TVWorld, an offline graph-based abstraction of real-world TV navigation that enables reproducible and deployment-free evaluation. On this basis, we derive two complementary benchmarks that comprehensively assess TV-use capabilities: TVWorld-N for topology-aware navigation and TVWorld-G for focus-aware grounding. These benchmarks expose a key limitation of existing agents: insufficient topology awareness for focus-based, long-horizon TV navigation. Motivated by this finding, we propose a Topology-Aware Training framework that injects topology awareness into LVLMs. Using this framework, we develop TVTheseus, a foundation model specialized for TV navigation. TVTheseus achieves a success rate of 68.3 on TVWorld-N, surpassing strong closed-source baselines such as Gemini 3 Flash and establishing state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. Additional analyses further provide valuable insights into the development of effective TV-use agents.
2024
ChartAssistant: A Universal Chart Multimodal Language Model via Chart-to-Table Pre-training and Multitask Instruction Tuning
Fanqing Meng | Wenqi Shao | Quanfeng Lu | Peng Gao | Kaipeng Zhang | Yu Qiao | Ping Luo
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Fanqing Meng | Wenqi Shao | Quanfeng Lu | Peng Gao | Kaipeng Zhang | Yu Qiao | Ping Luo
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Charts play a vital role in data visualization, understanding data patterns, and informed decision-making. However, their unique combination of graphical elements (e.g., bars, lines) and textual components (e.g., labels, legends) poses challenges for general-purpose multimodal models. While vision-language models trained on chart data excel in comprehension, they struggle with generalization. To address these challenges, we propose ChartAssistant, a chart-based vision-language model for universal chart comprehension and reasoning. ChartAssistant leverages ChartSFT, a comprehensive dataset covering diverse chart-related tasks with basic (e.g. bars and pies) and specialized (e.g. radars, and bubbles) chart types. It undergoes a two-stage training process, starting with pre-training on chart-to-table parsing to align chart and text, followed by multitask instruction-following fine-tuning. This approach enables ChartAssistant to achieve competitive performance across various chart tasks. Experimental results demonstrate significant performance gains over the state-of-the-art UniChart and ChartLlama methods, especially outperforming them on real-world chart data with zero-shot setting. The code and data are available at https://github.com/OpenGVLab/ChartAst.