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ReFigBench Evaluates Multimodal Coding Agents for Editable Scientific Figures

ReFigBench benchmarks multimodal coding agents' ability to convert visual inputs into editable PowerPoint artifacts, highlighting limitations of existing evaluation methods. It emphasizes that low scores may reflect issues in model perception, planning, or the surrounding tool harness rather than t...

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-09-16T15:51:51+00:00 Detected 2026-09-17T05:20:25+00:00
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ReFigBench benchmarks multimodal coding agents' ability to convert visual inputs into editable PowerPoint artifacts, highlighting limitations of existing evaluation methods. It emphasizes that low scores may reflect issues in model perception, planning, or the surrounding tool harness rather than t...

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Multimodal coding agents are expected to turn visual inputs into usable artifacts, and they act through a harness, the layer of tools, context management, and execution environment around the model. Existing evaluations often isolate short tool calls, API traces, or screenshot resemblance, and a low score under...

Understanding the full pipeline from visual input to usable artifact is crucial for improving AI coding tools in scientific figure reconstruction. This benchmark helps clarify where failures occur, guiding better development of multimodal agents and their execution environments.

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