Kashif Rasul
Author directory2026
Monitorable Chart Reasoning Agents via Verifiable Process Rewards
Sanchit Sinha | Oana Frunza | Kashif Rasul | Aidong Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Sanchit Sinha | Oana Frunza | Kashif Rasul | Aidong Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Chart reasoning agents are increasingly used to extract actionable insights in critical domains, achieving state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks. Yet, high benchmark accuracy alone is insufficient for deployment, where stakeholders must be able to audit and verify how a model reaches its answer. Existing LVLM-based chart agents produce either answer-only predictions or free-form rationales that are hard to verify, obscuring whether an error arose from misreading the chart, extracting a wrong value, or miscomputing. We propose Chart-RVR, a reinforcement learning framework for training monitorable chart agents with verifiable process rewards. Chart-RVR decomposes chart reasoning into three auditable blocks: Structure, identifying the chart type; Evidence, reconstructing the underlying data table in JSON; and Derivation, exposing the stepwise trace that computes the answer. Across six in-domain and out-of-domain benchmarks, Chart-RVR attains state-of-the-art accuracy among comparable-sized LVLMs. Beyond accuracy, we assess monitorability using a triangulated protocol that combines ground-truth surrogate metrics, an oracle information-gain measure, and an LLM-as-auditor scoring Process Verifiability and Evidence Localization, showing that Chart-RVR yields rationales that are markedly more verifiable and evidence-grounded than those from CoT prompting, SFT, and existing chart-specific baselines.
2019
FLAIR: An Easy-to-Use Framework for State-of-the-Art NLP
Alan Akbik | Tanja Bergmann | Duncan Blythe | Kashif Rasul | Stefan Schweter | Roland Vollgraf
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Demonstrations)
Alan Akbik | Tanja Bergmann | Duncan Blythe | Kashif Rasul | Stefan Schweter | Roland Vollgraf
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Demonstrations)
We present FLAIR, an NLP framework designed to facilitate training and distribution of state-of-the-art sequence labeling, text classification and language models. The core idea of the framework is to present a simple, unified interface for conceptually very different types of word and document embeddings. This effectively hides all embedding-specific engineering complexity and allows researchers to “mix and match” various embeddings with little effort. The framework also implements standard model training and hyperparameter selection routines, as well as a data fetching module that can download publicly available NLP datasets and convert them into data structures for quick set up of experiments. Finally, FLAIR also ships with a “model zoo” of pre-trained models to allow researchers to use state-of-the-art NLP models in their applications. This paper gives an overview of the framework and its functionality. The framework is available on GitHub at https://github.com/zalandoresearch/flair .