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Reverse Browser: Vector-Image-to-Code Generator

Software Engineering 2025-09-09 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Automating the conversion of user interface design into code (image-to-code or image-to-UI) is an active area of software engineering research. However, the state-of-the-art solutions do not achieve high fidelity to the original design, as evidenced by benchmarks. In this work, I approach the problem differently: I use vector images instead of bitmaps as model input. I create several large datasets for training machine learning models. I evaluate the available array of Image Quality Assessment (IQA) algorithms and introduce a new, multi-scale metric. I then train a large open-weights model and discuss its limitations.

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@article{arxiv.2509.05394,
  title  = {Reverse Browser: Vector-Image-to-Code Generator},
  author = {Zoltan Toth-Czifra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.05394},
  year   = {2025}
}

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