自动生成可编辑的科学论文方法图,兼顾视觉质量与修改便利性
SciFig: Towards Automating Editable Figure Generation for Scientific Papers
- 分四步生成:规划、布局、组件渲染、迭代优化,输出可编辑的XML图
- 在435张真人绘制图上测试,平均10分钟生成一张可编辑的高质量图
- 适合科研人员快速制作可修改的论文配图,尤其适合持续更新的研究
高质量的方法学图示是科学传播的核心,但制作困难且耗时。这类图需将方法的组成部分和信息流清晰地呈现为可修改的示意图,随论文演进而调整。现有自动化系统通常在可编辑性与视觉质量间权衡:基于TikZ或SVG的方法虽可编辑但视觉粗糙,图像生成模型虽美观却难以修改。我们提出SciFig,一个端到端多智能体框架,从科学文本生成视觉丰富且完全可编辑的方法图。SciFig将生成过程分解为规划、布局合成、组件渲染和迭代优化,生成可在标准绘图工具中编辑的XML图,并可通过人工或视觉语言模型反馈进一步优化。我们还构建了SciFig-Bench——包含来自37个arXiv领域和15个顶级人工智能/机器学习会议的435张作者绘制的方法图的人工验证基准;以及SciFig-Eval——一个四维度评估协议。在七个单智能体与多智能体基线中,SciFig在所有四个评估维度均表现最佳,平均生成时间约10分钟。定性结果显示,SciFig可泛化至预告图和统计图表。数据集与代码已公开:https://shramanpramanick.github.io/SciFig/
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
High-quality methodology figures are central to scientific communication, yet they remain difficult and time-consuming to create. Such figures must distill a method's components and information flow into a clear, revisable diagram as the paper evolves. Existing methodology diagram automation systems typically face a trade-off between editability and visual quality: TikZ- or SVG-based methods produce editable structured outputs but often lack the richness of human-designed figures, while image-generation models produce polished raster outputs that are difficult to revise. We introduce SciFig, an end-to-end multi-agent framework for generating visually rich and fully editable methodology figures from scientific text. SciFig decomposes figure generation into planning, layout synthesis, component rendering, and iterative refinement, producing XML figures that can be edited in standard diagramming tools and refined through human or VLM feedback. We also introduce SciFig-Bench, a human-verified benchmark of 435 author-drawn methodology figures from 37 arXiv domains and 15 top-tier AI/ML venues, and SciFig-Eval, a four-axis evaluation protocol for measuring figure quality. Across seven single-agent and agentic baselines, SciFig achieves the best performance on all four SciFig-Eval axes and generates editable figures in about 10 minutes on average. Qualitative examples further show that SciFig can generalize beyond methodology figures to teaser diagrams and statistical plots. Dataset and code are available at: https://shramanpramanick.github.io/SciFig/.
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