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From Terminology to Diagrams: Visual-Instruction Generation for Scientific Diagram Understanding

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 1, 2026 · UTC

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in visual question answering with natural images. However, they continue to struggle with scientific diagrams, which are designed to convey functional or relational meaning rather than literal scenes. We therefore introduce a framework for generating large-scale diagram-grounded instruction data by leveraging terminology derived from scientific curricula. Our approach systematically extracts domain concepts, synthesizes atomic facts, retrieves relevant diagrams from the web, and generates multimodal supervision in the form of d

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