arXiv:2509. 05208v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at program synthesis, yet their ability to produce symbolic graphics programs (SGPs) that render into precise visual content remains underexplored.
By Yamei Chen, Haoquan Zhang, Yangyi Huang, Zeju Qiu, Kaipeng Zhang, Yandong Wen, Weiyang Liu
arXiv:2602. 18548v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Design-to-code translates high-fidelity UI designs into executable front-end implementations, but progress remains hard to compare due to inconsistent datasets, toolchains, and evaluation protocols.
By Qiao Xu, Yipeng Yu, Chengxiao Feng, Xu Liu
Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong capabilities in generating visualization code from textual or visual specifications. However, real-world visualization authoring is inherently iterative: users frequently revise existing visualizations to repair flawed charts or adapt them to desired styles.
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
arXiv:2607. 22928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative UI tools promise to democratize UI design by turning natural language descriptions into complete interfaces.
By Kashif Imteyaz, Kaif Imteyaz, Nakul Rajpal, Kaif Shaikh, Michael Muller, Saiph Savage
The paper surveys Multimodal Code Intelligence, focusing on tasks where code is generated, edited, refined, or reasoned about under visually grounded inputs such as screenshots, charts, and videos. It categorizes the field by the role of code—rendered artifact, editable structure, intermediate reasoning trace, or executable tool interface—and organizes benchmarks into four domains: Graphical User Interface, Scientific Visualization, Structured Graphics, and Frontier Tasks and Frameworks. The authors argue that reliable evaluation must include evidence of semantics and interaction beyond visual fidelity, and propose four verification-centered research directions to advance the field toward evidence-grounded executable systems.
By Xuanle Zhao, Qiushi Sun, Jingyu Xiao, Xuexin Liu, Haoyue Yang, Qiaosheng Chen, Xianzhen Luo, Jing Huang, Yufeng Zhong, Lei Chen, Shuai Fu, Zhenlin Wei, Jinhe Bi, Lei Jiang, Haibo Qiu, Siqi Yang, Peng Shi, Jian Hu, Zhixiong Zeng