arXiv:2601. 04390v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-quality methodology figures are central to scientific communication, yet they remain difficult and time-consuming to create.
By Siyuan Huang, Yifan Zhou, Yutong Gao, Zi Yin, Juyang Bai, Xinxin Liu, Rama Chellappa, Chun Pong Lau, Cheng Peng, Sayan Nag, Shraman Pramanick
arXiv:2607. 15272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Editing the figures in a research paper is a routine and time-consuming part of everyday research practice: authors relabel components, rearrange panels, and restyle visuals as they revise their manuscripts.
By Yasheng Sun, Zezi Zeng, Yifan Yang, Chong Luo, Wenyi Wang, Ziwei Liu, J\"urgen Schmidhuber
arXiv:2609.01409v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong performance in generating scientific figures from text or images. However, producing publication-ready...
By Christian Greisinger, Zhixue Zhao, Steffen Eger
The paper introduces “FigTree”, a multi-agent system that automatically converts a scientific paper into a structured vector figure by recursively constructing SVG programs. It decomposes figures into hierarchical regions, generates each region as a short SVG program, and assembles them, using a render‑critic refinement loop to trace and repair visual defects. Evaluations show that “FigTree” produces high‑quality figures and allows more effective editing than raster‑based methods.
By Yepeng Liu, Dasen Dai, Chengzhi Liu, Yiren Song, Hai Ci, Yu Zhang, Qi Zhang, Mike Zheng Shou, Xin Eric Wang, Yuheng Bu
Scientific methodology figures are essential for communicating complex methods clearly, yet creating them remains labor-intensive and typically requires multiple rounds of refinement. Recent image-gen...
arXiv:2607.02290v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent image generation and editing models can produce visually appealing natural images, yet they remain unreliable when the target image is a kno...
By Zhaokai Wang, Mingxin Liu, Zirun Zhu, Ziqian Fan, Yiguo He, Mohan Zhang, Leyao Gu, Yan Li, Xiangyu Zhao, Ning Liao, Shaofeng Zhang, Xuanhe Zhou, Zhihang Zhong, Xue Yang
arXiv:2609.13294v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Converting scientific graphics into editable representations remains a challenging problem for image-to-code generation because of their heterogeneous...
By Jiahao Tang, Yiren Song, Alex Jinpeng Wang
Chart2SVG is a multimodal large language model that transforms static raster chart images into editable SVGs enriched with semantic structure. By embedding chart‑specific semantic tokens into a vision‑language framework and training on the Beagle+ dataset of 33K distilled chart samples, the model captures both geometric primitives and their functional roles. The resulting SVGs are visually accurate and structurally consistent, and the accompanying Chart Structure Graph (CSG) exposes visual dependencies for interactive exploration, chart repurposing, and layout reuse.
By Jinning Cui, Lu Chen, Haoyan Shi, Yue He, Chenglong Wang, Mengyu Zhou, Weidong Huang, Yunhai Wang
arXiv:2603.29852v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: We introduce VectorGym, a comprehensive benchmark suite for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) that spans generation from text and sketches, comp...
By Joan Rodriguez, Haotian Zhang, Abhay Puri, Haoran Dai, Tianyang Zhang, Meng Lin, Rishav Pramanik, Xiaoqing Xie, Marco Terral Rodriguez, Darsh Kaushik, Aly Shariff, Perouz Taslakian, Spandana Gella, Sai Rajeswar, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal, Marco Pedersoli
arXiv:2607. 28073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In demanding professional environments and meeting review scenarios, lengthy text often imposes a high cognitive load.
By Yiming Xu, Jihua Kang, Chunsai Du, Qifan Zhang, Wangqiu Zhou, Yiting Wu, Tianqi Li, Qi Song
ReFigBench is a benchmark that evaluates how well multimodal coding agents can transform scientific overview figures into editable PowerPoint slides, preserving text, layout, and document structure. The study uses 1,000 real figures from arXiv, testing agents from four model families across two workflows—direct code generation and a specialized PPTX workflow—within ten different harness configurations. Evaluation combines deterministic artifact checks, automated scoring by judges, and blinded human comparisons, revealing that workflow and harness choices significantly affect reconstruction quality and that even the best agents fall short of the ideal rubric.
By Liyang Fan, Chi Wei, Yitai Li, Xinping Bi, Guhong Chen, Chenghao Sun, Haoxiang Yang, Qingwen Li, Kai Yan, Hong Li, Bo Li
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