nvAgent: Automated Data Visualization from Natural Language via Collaborative Agent Workflow (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | *Natural Language to Visualization (NL2Vis) seeks to transform natural-language descriptions into visual representations of given tables. |
| Approach: | They propose a collaborative agent workflow for NL2Vis that incorporates three agents . the model is called **nvAgent** and comprises a processor agent for database processing and context filtering, a composer agent for planning visualization generation and a validator agent for code translation and output verification. |
| Outcome: | The proposed workflow surpasses state-of-the-art models on the VisEval benchmark. |
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