The article examines how Large Language Models can aid in creating Entity-Relationship diagrams from natural language requirements. It tests three LLMs with three prompting strategies—Zero-Shot, Chain of Thought, and Chain of Thought + Verifier—on scenarios of increasing complexity. Findings show that while LLMs perform adequately on simpler tasks, their reliability drops with more complex requirements, leading to inconsistencies, ambiguities, and constraint representation failures.
By Arthur F. Siqueira, Carlos D. S. Nogueira, Eduarda Farias, Claudio E. C. Campelo, J\'ulia Menezes
The paper introduces SciGram, a large-scale dataset of 194K scientific diagrams paired with 1.4M visual instructions generated through a terminology‑grounded pipeline that extracts domain concepts, synthesizes facts, and retrieves relevant diagrams. Models fine‑tuned on SciGram show significant gains on diagram‑centric benchmarks such as TQA, ScienceQA, and AI2D, and when combined with existing models like LLaVA OneVision, set new state‑of‑the‑art performance. The authors release both the dataset and trained models to support further research in scientific diagram understanding.
By Raul Ortega, Jos\'e Manuel G\'omez-P\'erez
arXiv:2608. 08964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The generation of mathematically precise diagrams from tex- tual prompts has emerged as a critical yet underexplored capability of Large Language Models (LLMs).
By Harish Kashyap, Kiran Byadarhaly, Sriram Chakaravarthy, Sanyukta Tuti, Aryan Mistry
arXiv:2607. 24766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can generate individual charts, but coordinated multi-view visualizations (CMVs), where views share data flows and cross-view interactions, remain out of reach.
By Dazhen Deng, Zhaoping He, Xin Qian, Xiaotong Wang, Zi Ying, Yingcai Wu
arXiv:2609.26208v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Data visualization is central to analytical reasoning, but real-world analysis increasingly requires language-driven interactive interfaces rather than...
By Mizanur Rahman, Aaryaman Kartha, Enamul Hoque Prince
arXiv:2608. 12262v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have been growing the capability for scientific writing and collaboration.
By Weihao Bo, Shan Zhang, Yanpeng Sun, Jie Liu, Yongke Yao, Jinhao Du, Wei He, Kai Zou, Zechao Li, Jingdong Wang
arXiv:2608. 14228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Life science knowledge graphs make large collections of structured data available through SPARQL, but each resource uses its own schema, identifiers, and links.
By Yiming Zhang, Koji Tsuda
arXiv:2511. 17731v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has proven remarkably effective for eliciting complex reasoning in large language models (LLMs).
By Lingxiao Li, Yifan Wang, Xinyan Gao, Chen Tang, Xiangyu Yue, Chenyu You
arXiv:2606. 28406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image and multimodal generative models are increasingly used to produce scientific figures such as mechanism diagrams, experimental-design schematics, conceptual frameworks, and graphical abstracts.
By Davie Chen
UReason is a benchmark that evaluates how well unified multimodal models (UMMs) align textual reasoning with image generation. It contains 2,000 human‑curated instances across five reasoning‑intensive tasks—Code, Arithmetic, Spatial, Attribute, and Text—and compares direct generation, reasoning‑guided generation, and decontextualized generation. The study finds that while reasoning‑guided generation improves over direct generation, decontextualized generation consistently outperforms it, indicating that the visual semantics in textual reasoning are not reliably reflected in the generated images.
By Cheng Yang, Chufan Shi, Bo Shui, Yaokang Wu, Muzi Tao, Huijuan Wang, Ivan Yee Lee, Yong Liu, Xuezhe Ma, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick
arXiv:2602.11678v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable progress in visual understanding, yet they suffer from a critical limitation: struct...
By Chengwei Ma, Zhen Tian, Zhou Zhou, Zhixian Xu, Xiaowei Zhu, Xia Hua, Si Shi, F. Richard Yu
SCAFFOLD is a large-scale structured dataset of computer science research figures, each paired with captions, context, questions, answers, and chain-of-thought reasoning traces. It contains 157,387 figure–question pairs from 3,058 arXiv papers, with subsets of 36,797 and 12,000 pairs for medium and small-scale use. The dataset was created using layout detection, PDF parsing, and AI-assisted question generation, and was used to benchmark a vision‑language model (Qwen2.5‑VL‑3B‑Instruct).
By Ranjit Raut, Aarav Subedi, Sagun Rai, Sudan Jha