arXiv AI
23h ago

TikZilla: Scaling Text-to-TikZ with High-Quality Data and Reinforcement Learning

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 AI
Jun 2

TECCI: Tricky Edits of Collected and Curated Images

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 23

S1-Omni-Image: A Unified Model for Scientific Image Understanding, Generation, and Editing

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 AI
1d ago

Figures as Programs: Recursive Generation of Editable Scientific Figures

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