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Navigating the Mirage: A Dual-Path Agentic Framework for Robust Misleading Chart Question Answering

Despite the success of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), misleading charts remain a significant challenge due to their deceptive visual structures and distorted data representations. We present ChartCynics, an agentic dual-path framework designed to unmask visual deception via a "skeptical" reasoning paradigm. Unlike holistic models, ChartCynics decouples perception from verification: a Diagnostic Vision Path captures structural anomalies (e.g., inverted axes) through strategic ROI cropping, while

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Published: 13 July 2026
Source: HuggingFace Daily Papers
Category: Research
Topics: Healthcare · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 16 July 2026

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ethics.ai (13 July 2026), “Navigating the Mirage: A Dual-Path Agentic Framework for Robust Misleading Chart Question Answering,” evidence record 10563, https://ethics.ai/record/10563 (originally published by HuggingFace Daily Papers).

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