Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong capabilities in generating visualization code from textual or visual specifications. However, real-world visualization authoring is inherently iterative: users frequently revise existing visualizations to repair flawed charts or adapt them to desired styles.
VinciCoder is a unified framework for multimodal code generation that addresses the limitations of single-task models by training on a large-scale curated corpus of 1.3 M direct generation pairs and 300 k visual‑refinement tasks. It introduces a coarse‑to‑fine Visual Reinforcement Learning (ViRL) approach that uses visual similarity across multi‑scale patches to provide an implementation‑agnostic reward, improving alignment between rendered outputs and input visuals. Experiments on diverse benchmarks show VinciCoder outperforms existing methods, and ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of ViRL.
By Xuanle Zhao, Deyang Jiang, Zhixiong Zeng, Lei Chen, Haoyue Yang, Haibo Qiu, Jing Huang, Yufeng Zhong, Liming Zheng, Yilin Cao, Lin Ma
arXiv:2606. 15693v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs have significantly advanced code generation, enabling the synthesis of functional programs.
By Charly Reux (UR, INSA Rennes, DiverSe), Mathieu Acher (CNRS, IUF, IRISA, UR, DiverSe), Djamel Eddine Khelladi (DiverSe, UR, CNRS, IRISA), Cl\'ement Quinton (SPIRALS, CNRS), Olivier Barais (UR, IRISA, DiverSe)
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:2604.06079v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Graphics Program Synthesis is pivotal for interpreting and editing visual data, effectively facilitating the reverse-engineering of static visuals...
By Juekai Lin, Yun Zhu, Honglin Lin, Sijing Li, Tianwei Lin, Zheng Liu, Xiaoyang Wang, Wenqiao Zhang, Lijun Wu
arXiv:2609.16936v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-powered coding agents have made rapid progress in automating software engineering tasks, yet repository-level issue resolu...
By Yunxiang Zhang, Haiquan Wang, JiaWei Guo, Hanyang Xia, Yan Chen, Tong Chen, Zhang Zhiwei, Junchen Ye
arXiv:2604.18364v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Generating programmatic animation using libraries such as Manim presents unique challenges for Large Language Models (LLMs), requiring spatial reas...
By Ravidu Suien Rammuni Silva, Ahmad Lotfi, Isibor Kennedy Ihianle, Golnaz Shahtahmassebi, Jordan J. Bird
The paper surveys Multimodal Code Intelligence, focusing on tasks where code is generated, edited, refined, or reasoned about under visually grounded inputs such as screenshots, charts, and videos. It categorizes the field by the role of code—rendered artifact, editable structure, intermediate reasoning trace, or executable tool interface—and organizes benchmarks into four domains: Graphical User Interface, Scientific Visualization, Structured Graphics, and Frontier Tasks and Frameworks. The authors argue that reliable evaluation must include evidence of semantics and interaction beyond visual fidelity, and propose four verification-centered research directions to advance the field toward evidence-grounded executable systems.
By Xuanle Zhao, Qiushi Sun, Jingyu Xiao, Xuexin Liu, Haoyue Yang, Qiaosheng Chen, Xianzhen Luo, Jing Huang, Yufeng Zhong, Lei Chen, Shuai Fu, Zhenlin Wei, Jinhe Bi, Lei Jiang, Haibo Qiu, Siqi Yang, Peng Shi, Jian Hu, Zhixiong Zeng
arXiv:2608.24138v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large vision-language models have shown strong progress in UI-to-code generation, yet their test-time self-evolution remains unstable. We first identif...
By Tianyi Xiong, Zhengyuan Yang, Xiaofei Wang, Chung-Ching Lin, Ruichun Ma, Kevin Lin, Zhendong Wang, Linjie Li, Chenxi Liu, Ruibo Chen, Ramani Duraiswami, Heng Huang, Lijuan Wang
Self-improvement for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is typically driven by reward-based methods that provide only coarse scalar feedback. Distillation offers a richer alternative through dense token-level supervision, but in the visual domain it usually depends on privileged context constructed using external annotations and tools, or stronger models.
OmniHarness is a framework that enables generalizable visual generation by learning symbolic policies from verified executions. It abstracts shared procedures and applicability conditions, allowing these policies to be instantiated, adapted, and composed for new tasks while keeping model parameters fixed. The system uses intermediate verification for refinement, self-directed inquiry to generate practice tasks, and continuous feedback to expand capabilities, achieving strong results on multiple benchmarks and outperforming baselines on Creative tasks.
By Xu Xu (Beihang University), Jinxiu Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Zhangbo Qiao (Beihang University), Jiaxing Lu (Beihang University), Xiangyu Zhang (Beihang University), Yubin Gu (National University of Singapore), Fangwei Ning (Beihang University), Yan Shi (Beihang University)
arXiv:2509. 05208v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at program synthesis, yet their ability to produce symbolic graphics programs (SGPs) that render into precise visual content remains underexplored.
By Yamei Chen, Haoquan Zhang, Yangyi Huang, Zeju Qiu, Kaipeng Zhang, Yandong Wen, Weiyang Liu