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...
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
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: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
Structured images, such as diagrams, charts, and flowcharts, are inherently symbolic and can be compactly represented in an editable format, yet in practice, they are often rendered as images, and the...
Back2Struct is a system that converts structured images—such as diagrams, charts, and flowcharts—into editable vector graphics code (SVG/XML). By predicting semantically rich, object-level SVG code rather than low-level pixel vectorization, it allows the generated graphics to be imported into tools like PowerPoint for easy editing, restyling, and reuse. The model is trained with supervised fine‑tuning and reward‑based learning that enforces syntactic validity, concise length, and visual fidelity to the input, leading to higher accuracy, editability, and user alignment compared to baselines.
By Pengyu Yan, Yixin Wu, Yunjie Tian, David Doermann
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: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: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
arXiv:2602.17690v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Graphic design generation demands a delicate balance between high visual fidelity and fine-grained structural editability. However, existing...
By Ziyuan Liu, Shizhao Sun, Danqing Huang, Yingdong Shi, Meisheng Zhang, Ji Li, Jingsong Yu, Jiang Bian
SLIDEFORGE is a new AI agent designed for controllable editing of presentation slides. It constructs a Deck State Graph that links visual decomposition, native PowerPoint object structure, and perceptual organization, enabling theme‑preserving reconstruction through slide‑native operations and rendered‑state verification. The authors also propose an evaluation framework that jointly measures component recovery, preservation, restyling consistency, visual quality, and native editability, and demonstrate that SLIDEFORGE outperforms existing prompting, screenshot‑based, and generic code‑agent baselines.
By Haozhen Zheng, Fulin Wang, Tianhu Xiong, Yingjie Yu, Shengyi Qian, Hanchao Yu, Alex Schwing, Klara Nahrstedt, Mingyuan Wu