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.
arXiv:2606. 10334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Code-generating large language models (LLMs) increasingly produce visual artifacts such as charts, web pages, and slides by writing programs that are executed by non-differentiable renderers, committing to code before observing the render.
arXiv:2606. 00188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While current multimodal models are proficient at open-ended visual editing, executing precise single-answer edits remains an important obstacle.
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.
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...
arXiv:2608.24169v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D geometry editing is a critical yet labor-intensive part of the graphics pipeline, requiring artists to translate creative intent into precise operat...
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...
PPTBench is a new benchmark that tests coding agents’ ability to reconstruct scientific flow diagrams from arXiv papers into editable PowerPoint slides. The dataset contains 500 tasks, each requiring agents to produce a single PPTX page with native, editable objects, and a four‑stage Agentic Judge evaluates validity, semantic correctness, rendering quality, and fine‑grained visual quality. Across 31 model configurations, the best score is 67.80, with a median of 19.47, showing that while agents can generate valid PPTX files, they still struggle with semantic and visual accuracy, especially text details.
arXiv:2512. 03042v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce PPTArena, a benchmark for PowerPoint editing that evaluates how agents modify real slides from natural-language instructions.
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...
arXiv:2606. 15693v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs have significantly advanced code generation, enabling the synthesis of functional programs.
arXiv:2602. 18548v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Design-to-code translates high-fidelity UI designs into executable front-end implementations, but progress remains hard to compare due to inconsistent datasets, toolchains, and evaluation protocols.
arXiv:2510.17932v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Chart2Code, a new benchmark for evaluating the chart understanding and code generation capabilities of large multimodal models (...