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Understanding the relationship between figures and text is key to scientific document understanding. Medical figures in particular are quite complex, often consisting of several subfigures (75% of figures in our dataset), with detailed text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Sanjay Subramanian , Lucy Lu Wang , Sachin Mehta , Ben Bogin , Madeleine van Zuylen , Sravanthi Parasa , Sameer Singh , Matt Gardner , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have shown promise in advancing healthcare. However, most existing models remain confined to single-image understanding, which greatly limits their applicability in clinical workflows. In practice,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhen Chen , Yihang Fu , Gabriel Madera , Mauro Giuffre , Serina Applebaum , Hyunjae Kim , Hua Xu , Qingyu Chen

We present MaterialFigBench, a benchmark dataset designed to evaluate the ability of multimodal large language models (LLMs) to solve university-level materials science problems that require accurate interpretation of figures. Unlike…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Michiko Yoshitake , Yuta Suzuki , Ryo Igarashi , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Keisuke Nagato

Built on the power of LLMs, numerous multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently achieved remarkable performance on various vision-language tasks. However, most existing MLLMs and benchmarks primarily focus on single-image input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Haowei Liu , Xi Zhang , Haiyang Xu , Yaya Shi , Chaoya Jiang , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Chunfeng Yuan , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) excel across diverse tasks involving concrete images from natural scenes. However, their ability to interpret abstract figures, such as geometry shapes and scientific plots, remains limited due to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Lei Li , Yuqi Wang , Runxin Xu , Peiyi Wang , Xiachong Feng , Lingpeng Kong , Qi Liu

In scholarly documents, figures provide a straightforward way of communicating scientific findings to readers. Automating figure caption generation helps move model understandings of scientific documents beyond text and will help authors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Zhishen Yang , Raj Dabre , Hideki Tanaka , Naoaki Okazaki

Lecture slide presentations, a sequence of pages that contain text and figures accompanied by speech, are constructed and presented carefully in order to optimally transfer knowledge to students. Previous studies in multimedia and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Dong Won Lee , Chaitanya Ahuja , Paul Pu Liang , Sanika Natu , Louis-Philippe Morency

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (LLMs) have highlighted their potential for medical and surgical applications. However, existing surgical datasets predominantly adopt a Visual Question Answering (VQA) format with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Tae-Min Choi , Tae Kyeong Jeong , Garam Kim , Jaemin Lee , Yeongyoon Koh , In Cheul Choi , Jae-Ho Chung , Jong Woong Park , Juyoun Park

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), which integrate language and visual cues for problem-solving, are crucial for advancing artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, current benchmarks for measuring the intelligence of MLLMs…

This paper tackles a key issue in the interpretation of scientific figures: the fine-grained alignment of text and figures. It advances beyond prior research that primarily dealt with straightforward, data-driven visualizations such as bar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Xiang Shi , Jiawei Liu , Yinpeng Liu , Qikai Cheng , Wei Lu

Unraveling the hierarchical structure-property relationships is the central challenge of materials science, necessitating the interpretation of data across vast physical scales from micro to macro. Despite the rapid integration of Large…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yuting Zheng , Zijian Chen , Qi Jia

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown promise across many tasks, yet their scientific reasoning capabilities remain untested, particularly in multimodal settings. We present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xinwu Ye , Chengfan Li , Siming Chen , Wei Wei , Xiangru Tang

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities across various tasks by integrating textual and visual information to achieve visual understanding in complex scenarios. Despite the availability of several…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zhihuan Jiang , Zhen Yang , Jinhao Chen , Zhengxiao Du , Weihan Wang , Bin Xu , Jie Tang

Image-text interleaved data, consisting of multiple images and texts arranged in a natural document format, aligns with the presentation paradigm of internet data and closely resembles human reading habits. Recent studies have shown that…

This survey provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in multimodal alignment and fusion within the field of machine learning, driven by the increasing availability and diversity of data modalities such as text, images, audio,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Songtao Li , Hao Tang

As multimodal language models play an increasingly important role in scientific research, materials science offers a critical testbed due to its interdisciplinary, multimodal, and application-driven nature. However, existing materials…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Wanhao Liu , Jiaqing Xie , Qian Tan , Weida Wang , Jue Wang , Ran Sun , Zhuo Yang , Wanli Ouyang , Lei Bai , Tianfan Fu , Lu Chen , Xin Chen , Yuqiang Li

Constructing scientific multimodal document reasoning datasets for foundation model training involves an inherent trade-off among scale, faithfulness, and realism. To address this challenge, we introduce the synthesize-and-reground…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Ziyu Chen , Yilun Zhao , Chengye Wang , Rilyn Han , Manasi Patwardhan , Arman Cohan

Biomedical data is inherently multimodal, comprising physical measurements and natural language narratives. A generalist biomedical AI model needs to simultaneously process different modalities of data, including text and images. Therefore,…

The communication of scientific knowledge has become increasingly multimodal, spanning text, visuals, and speech through materials such as research papers, slides, and recorded presentations. These different representations collectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Megha Mariam K. M , Vineeth N. Balasubramanian , C. V. Jawahar

Despite the excitement behind biomedical artificial intelligence (AI), access to high-quality, diverse, and large-scale data - the foundation for modern AI systems - is still a bottleneck to unlocking its full potential. To address this…