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With the ever-increasing popularity of pretrained Video-Language Models (VidLMs), there is a pressing need to develop robust evaluation methodologies that delve deeper into their visio-linguistic capabilities. To address this challenge, we…

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has catalyzed a paradigm shift in programming, giving rise to "vibe coding", where users can build complete projects and even control computers using natural language instructions. This paradigm…

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Using vision-language models (VLMs) as reward models in reinforcement learning holds promise for reducing costs and improving safety. So far, VLM reward models have only been used for goal-oriented tasks, where the agent must reach a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Evžen Wybitul , Evan Ryan Gunter , Mikhail Seleznyov , David Lindner

Vision language models (VLM) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various downstream tasks. However, understanding fine-grained visual-linguistic concepts, such as attributes and inter-object relationships, remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wujian Peng , Sicheng Xie , Zuyao You , Shiyi Lan , Zuxuan Wu

The HyperText Markup Language 5 (HTML5) <canvas> is useful for creating visual-centric web applications. However, unlike traditional web applications, HTML5 <canvas> applications render objects onto the <canvas> bitmap without representing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Finlay Macklon , Cor-Paul Bezemer

We introduce VisTA, a new reinforcement learning framework that empowers visual agents to dynamically explore, select, and combine tools from a diverse library based on empirical performance. Existing methods for tool-augmented reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zeyi Huang , Yuyang Ji , Anirudh Sundara Rajan , Zefan Cai , Wen Xiao , Haohan Wang , Junjie Hu , Yong Jae Lee

Text-to-Visualization (Text2Vis) systems translate natural language queries over tabular data into concise answers and executable visualizations. While closed-source LLMs generate functional code, the resulting charts often lack semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Mizanur Rahman , Mohammed Saidul Islam , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Shafiq Joty , Enamul Hoque

Agent systems powered by large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on repository-level code-generation tasks. However, for tasks such as website codebase generation, which depend heavily on visual effects and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zimu Lu , Houxing Ren , Yunqiao Yang , Ke Wang , Zhuofan Zong , Junting Pan , Mingjie Zhan , Hongsheng Li

Autonomous agents capable of planning, reasoning, and executing actions on the web offer a promising avenue for automating computer tasks. However, the majority of existing benchmarks primarily focus on text-based agents, neglecting many…

The automatic generation of visualizations is an old task that, through the years, has shown more and more interest from the research and practitioner communities. Recently, large language models (LLM) have become an interesting option for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Luca Podo , Muhammad Ishmal , Marco Angelini

With recent advances in multi-modal foundation models, the previously text-only large language models (LLM) have evolved to incorporate visual input, opening up unprecedented opportunities for various applications in visualization. Our work…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Shusen Liu , Haichao Miao , Zhimin Li , Matthew Olson , Valerio Pascucci , Peer-Timo Bremer

Real-world data visualization (DV) requires native environmental grounding, cross-platform evolution, and proactive intent alignment. Yet, existing benchmarks often suffer from code-sandbox confinement, single-language creation-only tasks,…

Simulation has the potential to transform the development of robust algorithms for mobile agents deployed in safety-critical scenarios. However, the poor photorealism and lack of diverse sensor modalities of existing simulation engines…

User interface (UI) design is an iterative process in which designers progressively refine their work with design software such as Figma or Sketch. Recent advances in vision language models (VLMs) with tool invocation suggest these models…

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We introduce WebSight, a vision-based autonomous web agent, designed to interact with web environments purely through visual perception, eliminating dependence on HTML or DOM-based inputs. Central to our approach we introduce our new model,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tanvir Bhathal , Asanshay Gupta

We introduce Image2Struct, a benchmark to evaluate vision-language models (VLMs) on extracting structure from images. Our benchmark 1) captures real-world use cases, 2) is fully automatic and does not require human judgment, and 3) is based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Josselin Somerville Roberts , Tony Lee , Chi Heem Wong , Michihiro Yasunaga , Yifan Mai , Percy Liang

Text-to-Visualization (Text-to-Vis) translates natural language queries into visualization query languages, enabling non-expert users to perform data analysis. However, most existing methods follow a one-shot paradigm that requires users to…

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in code generation across various domains. However, their ability to replicate complex, multi-panel visualizations from real-world data remains largely unassessed. To…

Visual documentation is an effective tool for reducing the cognitive barrier developers face when understanding unfamiliar code, enabling more intuitive comprehension. Compared to textual documentation, it provides a higher-level…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Luís F. Gomes , Xin Zhou , David Lo , Rui Abreu

Image-to-code generation tests whether a vision-language model (VLM) can recover the structure of an image enough to express it as executable code. Existing benchmarks either focus on narrow visual domains, depend on paired executable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ajay Vikram Periasami , Junlin Wang , Bhuwan Dhingra