Structural fidelity is essential to scientific methodology diagrams. To communicate research logic, these diagrams must faithfully render components, directional relations, and textual annotations.
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
Text-to-image generation has reached photorealistic quality, yet state-of-the-art systems remain unreliable at producing scientific diagrams, whose value depends not on appearance but on physical faithfulness: correct force directions, valid coordinate systems, consistent thermodynamic states, and equations matching the depicted scenario. Trained on web imagery with physically shallow captions, generic models produce diagrams that look plausible but are physically wrong, harmful in education and scientific communication.
While Text-to-Image (T2I) models have shown remarkable success in generating photorealistic visual content, they still struggle with the rigorous semantic alignment and logical reasoning required for scientific imagery. Inspired by Peirce's Semiotic Triad, we introduce Scientific Image Reasoning (SciIR), a comprehensive resource for training and evaluation of scientific image generation.
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.
arXiv:2606. 13020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Three paradigmatic forms of inference recur across scientific reasoning: deduction, induction, and causal abduction.
By Pierre Beckmann, Marco Valentino, Andre Freitas
arXiv:2603. 24575v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are essential for technical illustration and digital design, offering resolution independence and semantic editability.
By Qijia He, Xunmei Liu, Hammaad Memon, Ziang Li, Zixian Ma, Jaemin Cho, Zhongzheng Ren, Daniel S Weld, Ranjay Krishna
arXiv:2606. 29667v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The materials science literature encodes decades of experimental knowledge in figures, yet this visual record remains locked away and inaccessible to AI at scale.
By Subham Ghosh, Shubham Tiwari, Mohammad Ibrahim, Abhishek Tewari
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. 16517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific reasoning models for biology combine language models with foundation models trained on multimodal biological data, including DNA, RNA, and proteins.
By Lukas Fesser, Hanlin Zhang, Michelle M. Li, Eric Wang, Bryan Perozzi, Shekoofeh Azizi, Sham M. Kakade, Marinka Zitnik
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:2607. 07708v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Structure-property relationships are foundational to biology, chemistry and materials science, where function, reactivity and physical response emerge from spatial, chemical and periodic organization.
By Chen Tang, Yizhou Wang, Jianyu Wu, Lintao Wang, Shixiang Tang, Pengze Li, Encheng Su, Jun Yao, Jiabei Xiao, Yuqi Shi, Jielan Li, Hongxia Hao, Zhangyang Gao, Fang Wu, Ben Fei, Xiangyu Yue, Pan Tan, Bozitao Zhong, Jinouwen Zhang, Aoran Wang, Yan Lu, Jiaheng Liu, Xinzhu Ma, Liang Hong, Mingyue Zheng, Phil Torr, Bowen Zhou, Wanli Ouyang, Lei Bai