2025
Beyond End-to-End VLMs: Leveraging Intermediate Text Representations for Superior Flowchart Understanding
NAACL 2025long
Flowcharts are typically presented as images, driving the trend of using vision-language models (VLMs) for end-to-end flowchart understanding. However, two key challenges arise: (i) Limited controllability—users have minimal influence over the downstream task, as they can only modify input images, w…