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license: apache-2.0
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This is the Hugging Face repo holds the open-source resources reproduced version of START-Dataset following the method proposed in START: Spatial and Textual Learning for Chart Understanding.

Project page: https://github.com/dragonlzm/START.

Please kindly cite our paper if you find this project helpful.

```bibtex
@misc{liu2025startspatialtextuallearning,
      title={START: Spatial and Textual Learning for Chart Understanding}, 
      author={Zhuoming Liu and Xiaofeng Gao and Feiyang Niu and Qiaozi Gao and Liu Liu and Robinson Piramuthu},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2512.07186},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07186}, 
}
```