When Charts Deceive Web Agents: A Paired Benchmark for Misleading Visualization-Grounded Tasks

arXiv:2610.12823 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-09 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-09

Updated: 2026-10-09

Comments: Accepted to EMNLP 2026. 19 pages

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

Terminology

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Sources

• The Obvious Invisible Threat: LLM-Powered GUI Agents' Vulnerability to Fine-Print Injections
• WorkArena: How Capable Are Web Agents at Solving Common Knowledge Work Tasks?
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• UVU: Improving Multimodal Understanding via Vision-Language Unified Autoregressive Paradigm
• VIVAS: Vitalizing Visual Perception in VLM Pre-training via Vision-language Unified Autoregressive Supervision
• ST-WebAgentBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Safety and Trustworthiness in Web Agents
• MM-BrowseComp: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Browsing Agents
• TIEM: Temporal Integration of Hypergraph Evidence and Skill Memory for Event-Driven Financial Forecasting
• WebChoreArena: Evaluating Web Browsing Agents on Realistic Tedious Web Tasks
• Protecting multimodal large language models against misleading visualizations
• Is this chart lying to me? Automating the detection of misleading visualizations
• SafeArena: Evaluating the Safety of Autonomous Web Agents
• BrowseComp: A Simple Yet Challenging Benchmark for Browsing Agents
• Youtu-VL: Unleashing Visual Potential via Unified Vision-Language Supervision
• ChartBench: A Benchmark for Complex Visual Reasoning in Charts

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