SciDiagBench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate scientific diagram generation in a way that mirrors human peer‑review practices. It provides a dataset of 165 diagrams from 10 domains, systematically classified into 11 distinct types such as graphical abstracts and technical roadmaps. The benchmark also introduces a preference‑guided calibration method that incorporates human preferences into type‑specific evaluation criteria, aiming to improve the reliability of automated assessments.
By Hao Wang, Zixuan Li, Long Bai, Xiaolong Jin, Jiafeng Guo, Tat-Seng Chua, Tian Tian
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:2606. 26614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents enable natural language interaction for scientific visualization (SciVis).
By Kuangshi Ai, Patrick Phuoc Do, Chaoli Wang
SlideGen is a collaborative vision‑language multi‑agent framework designed to generate scientific presentation slides from research papers. It assigns specialized agents to outline the presentation structure, align figures and tables with key claims, generate speaker notes, and compose editable PPTX slides using a diverse layout library. The system introduces a geometry‑aware density metric to evaluate visual clutter and demonstrates significant improvements in layout balance, content coverage, and text coherence over existing baselines on a 200‑paper benchmark.
By Xin Liang, Zhilin Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Haoran Su, Yiwei Xu, Siqi Sun, Chenyu You
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: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