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VISTA: An End-to-End Benchmark for Visual Spec-to-Web-App Coding Agents

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arXiv:2605. 26144v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present VISTA (VIsual Spec-To-App Benchmark), a benchmark for evaluating the end-to-end web-app generation capabilities of LLM-based agents.

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