arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

Beyond Atomic Layouts: Compositional Design Understanding with Vision-Language Models

The paper introduces a new task called compositional layout understanding, focusing on interpreting complex, multi‑layer document and UI designs. It presents CoDeLayout, a VQA dataset of about 20,000 real‑world layouts annotated with compositional element pairs and design intent. The authors identify semantic drift and structural ambiguity as key challenges for vision‑language models and propose MASON, a post‑training approach that combines multimodal alignment and structural perception to improve performance, achieving 91.66% accuracy with only 30% of the training data.

By Yiyang Huang, Zhaowen Wang, Simon Jenni, Jing Shi, Yitian Zhang, Yizhou Wang, Yun Fu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 11

Learning Interaction between Image and Layout Priors for Joint Image-Layout Generation in Design Templates

The paper introduces InterIL, a joint generative model that simultaneously produces a background image and a layout of foreground elements for graphic design templates, addressing the limitations of sequential generation approaches. InterIL connects pretrained image and layout diffusion backbones via a learnable communication module, freezing the backbones to preserve prior knowledge while training only the interaction module. The model also offers a test‑time guidance strategy, enabling users to impose preferences without retraining, and demonstrates superior image, layout, and harmonization quality compared to previous methods.

By Shirong Yang, Bo Yang, Ying Cao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 27

Beyond Atomic Layouts: Compositional Design Understanding with Vision-Language Models

The paper introduces a new task called compositional layout understanding, focusing on interpreting complex, multi-layer document and UI layouts that involve hierarchical relationships among visually entangled elements. It presents CoDeLayout, a VQA dataset of about 20,000 real-world layouts annotated with compositional element pairs and design intent, and identifies two main challenges for current vision‑language models: semantic drift between textual metadata and visual content, and structural ambiguity in hierarchical inter‑element relationships. To address these, the authors propose MASON, a post‑training paradigm that combines multimodal alignment and structural perception, achieving a 91.66% accuracy on CoDeLayout and outperforming full‑data direct fine‑tuning with only 30% of the training data.