arXiv AI By Ali Ansari, Yasmin Mohammadi, Farnoush Nili, Parsa Esmaeilkhani, Longin Jan Latecki, Eduard Dragut

ERUnderstand: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Structured ER Diagrams

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arXiv:2607. 24707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) are central to conceptual database design, yet they are typically available only as rendered images rather than machine-readable schemas, limiting AI-assisted database engineering.

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