Recent developments in text-to-image generation have allowed for the creation of detailed graphics from natural language descriptions. However, these models often do not produce high-quality raster images for scientific figures. As a result, vector graphics, which offer better geometric precision and text readability, are encouraged. Researchers are investigating the usage of visual languages, such as TikZ, to automatically create scientific figures. They have developed DaTikZ, the first large-scale TikZ dataset, and adjusted the LLaMA language model to produce more human-like figures. They are also working on CLiMA, an extension that incorporates multimodal CLIP embeddings and improves text-image alignment.
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Recent advancements in text-to-image generation have made it possible to create detailed graphics from simple natural language descriptions. Models like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E can generate images that resemble actual human-created art. However, these models do not produce the best raster images for scientific figures, which require high geometric precision and legible text even at small sizes. As a result, many academic conferences encourage the use of vector graphics, which offer geometric forms, text searchability, and reduced file sizes.
Automated vector graphics creation is also expanding, but current approaches have limitations. They mostly generate low-level path components in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format, either failing to retain precise geometric relationships or producing outputs with low complexity. Researchers from Bielefeld University, the University of Hamburg, and the University of Mannheim & Bielefeld University are investigating the use of visual languages to overcome these limitations. These visual languages offer high-level structures that can be compiled into lower-level vector graphics formats to solve the restrictions.
In their AutomaTikZ project, they developed DaTikZ, the first large-scale TikZ dataset with over 120k paired TikZ drawings and captions. They adjusted the large language model (LLM) LLaMA on DaTikZ and compared its performance with general-purpose LLMs like GPT-4 and Claude 2. Automatic and human evaluation showed that scientific figures produced by adjusted LLaMA are more similar to human-created figures.
They are also working on CLiMA, an extension of LLaMA that includes multimodal CLIP embeddings. This improvement enhances text-image alignment and allows the use of photos as additional inputs, improving speed.
All models provide original results and have minimal issues with memorization. While LLaMA and CLiMA sometimes produce degenerate solutions that overly duplicate the input caption onto the output picture, GPT-4 and Claude 2 often produce simpler outputs.
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