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
TikZilla is a new approach to generating TikZ code from textual descriptions, built on a larger, higher‑quality dataset called DaTikZ‑V4 that includes LLM‑generated figure descriptions. The method uses a two‑stage pipeline: supervised fine‑tuning of small Qwen models (3B and 8B) followed by reinforcement learning with an image encoder that provides semantically faithful reward signals. Human evaluations show that TikZilla outperforms its base models by 1.5–2 points on a 5‑point scale, beats GPT‑4o by 0.5 points, and matches GPT‑5 in image‑based tests while remaining much smaller.
By Christian Greisinger, Steffen Eger
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:2606. 01213v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite tremendous recent progress, current text-guided image editing methods still struggle with many aspects of editing involving instruction following, minimally editing the source image, and ensuring high visual quality.
By Aishwarya Agrawal, Roy Hirsch, Yasumasa Onoe, Sherry Ben, Jason Baldridge
We present S1-Omni-Image, an open-weight unified multimodal model for scientific image understanding, generation, and editing. Unlike general-purpose image generation models, scientific image tasks require not only high-fidelity synthesis, but also robust understanding of scientific semantics, structural relations, domain knowledge, and task intent.
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:2608. 05478v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graphical Abstracts (GAs) visually summarize the key findings of academic papers, playing a crucial role in facilitating the understanding of research content.
By Takuro Kawada, Shunsuke Kitada, Hitoshi Iyatomi
RefVideo-6M is a new large-scale reference-guided editing dataset that includes 5 million video editing samples and 1 million image editing samples, each paired with about 6 million visual references. The dataset is constructed to avoid artifacts by using real, artifact‑free videos as targets and filtering input conditions with multiple editing experts, thereby providing reliable supervision. It enables models to learn fine‑grained visual correspondence beyond text‑only instructions and supports the training of a reference‑guided video editing model, Ref‑MoT, which shows improved visual quality, controllability, and reference consistency.
By Bojia Zi, Xiaoyan Yang, Yu Zhou, Ruijie Sun, Lihan Zhang, Bin Liang, Kam-Fai Wong, Haibin Huang, Chi Zhang, Xuelong Li
arXiv:2510. 08532v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Instruction-based image editing offers a powerful and intuitive way to manipulate images through natural language.
By Rishubh Parihar, Or Patashnik, Daniil Ostashev, R. Venkatesh Babu, Daniel Cohen-Or, Kuan-Chieh Wang
arXiv:2605. 09233v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in visual generative models have enabled high-fidelity image editing guided by human instructions.
By Zilai Zeng, Mingdeng Cao, Zijie Li, Xiaochen Lian, Yichun Shi, Peihao Zhu, Chen Sun, Peng 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