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Scientific Graphics Program Synthesis via Dual Self-Consistency Reinforcement Learning

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Graphics Program Synthesis is pivotal for interpreting and editing visual data, effectively facilitating the reverse-engineering of static visuals into editable TikZ code. While TikZ is the de facto standard for scientific schematics due to its programmatic flexibility, its requirement for rigorous spatial precision presents a significant challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models. Progress is currently stifled by two primary gaps: (1) Data Quality Gap: existing image-TikZ corpora often lack strict executability and reliable visual alignment; (2) Evaluation Gap: a lack of benchmarks for both structural and visual fidelity. To address these, we present a closed-loop framework featuring: SciTikZ-230K, a large-scale, high-quality dataset from our Execution-Centric Data Engine covering 11 diverse scientific disciplines; SciTikZ-Bench, a multifaceted benchmark spanning from basic geometric constructs to intricate hierarchical schematics to evaluate both visual fidelity and structural logic. To further broaden the scope of visual-code optimization methodology, we introduce a novel Dual Self-Consistency Reinforcement Learning optimization paradigm, which utilizes Round-Trip Verification to penalize degenerate code and boost overall self-consistency. Empowered by these, our trained model SciTikZer-8B achieves state-of-the-art performance, consistently outperforming proprietary giants like Gemini-2.5-Pro and massive models like Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct.

Juekai Lin, Yun Zhu, Honglin Lin, Sijing Li, Tianwei Lin, Zheng Liu, Xiaoyang Wang, Wenqiao Zhang, Lijun Wu• 2026

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TaskDatasetResultRank
Scientific Graphics Program SynthesisSciTikZ-Bench
Success Rate97.2
20
Scientific Graphics Program SynthesisDaTikZ v3 (test)
DSim88.29
6
Scientific Graphics Program SynthesisChartMimic 300 samples v2 (test)
Visual Fidelity4.13
5
Scientific Graphics Program SynthesisScientific Graphics Program Synthesis Benchmark (test)
Visual Fidelity (VF)7.12
5
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