Consistency-Driven Co-Evolution for Self-Supervised Cross-Representation Learning

X Guo, P Li, T Hope, T Ghosal, M Li, Q Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2026 - arxiv.org
X Guo, P Li, T Hope, T Ghosal, M Li, Q Wang
arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.04926, 2026arxiv.org
As chart images, tabular data, and visualization code play increasingly important roles
across diverse domains, cross-representation understanding across these modalities poses
fundamental challenges for AI systems: the relationships across representations are
inherently\textit {one-to-many}, supervision is ambiguous and costly, and model optimization
lacks a principled signal that is both direction-adaptive and representation-generalizable
beyond task-specific objectives. We introduce CoCoEvolve to improve consistency across …
As chart images, tabular data, and visualization code play increasingly important roles across diverse domains, cross-representation understanding across these modalities poses fundamental challenges for AI systems: the relationships across representations are inherently \textit{one-to-many}, supervision is ambiguous and costly, and model optimization lacks a principled signal that is both direction-adaptive and representation-generalizable beyond task-specific objectives. We introduce CoCoEvolve to improve consistency across chart, table, and code representations. Instead of treating cross-representation mapping as a one-to-many problem, we define explicit one-to-one correspondences and optimize models using agreement between representations, without additional annotations. During training, CoCoEvolve@Train performs co-evolution across the chart-table-code cycle, while CoCoEvolve@Test applies the same consistency objective at inference time for test-time co-optimization. We also present CoCoEvolve@Eval, an evaluation suite covering all six cross-representation tasks. Across four benchmarks, CoCoEvolve improves performance in both training-time and test-time settings. Our project page: https://xhguo7.github.io/CoCoEvolve/.
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