Summary of Scimage: How Good Are Multimodal Large Language Models at Scientific Text-to-image Generation?, by Leixin Zhang et al.
ScImage: How Good Are Multimodal Large Language Models at Scientific Text-to-Image Generation?
by Leixin Zhang, Steffen Eger, Yinjie Cheng, Weihe Zhai, Jonas Belouadi, Christoph Leiter, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Fahimeh Moafian, Zhixue Zhao
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents ScImage, a benchmark designed to assess the capabilities of multimodal large language models (LLMs) in generating scientific images from textual descriptions. The authors evaluate five LLMs – GPT-4o, Llama, AutomaTikZ, Dall-E, and StableDiffusion – using two modes of output generation: code-based outputs and direct raster image generation. They examine four different input languages: English, German, Farsi, and Chinese. The evaluation, conducted with 11 scientists across three criteria (correctness, relevance, and scientific accuracy), reveals that while GPT-4o produces decent-quality outputs for simpler prompts, all models face challenges in generating scientific images from textual descriptions. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a special tool called ScImage that helps machines learn to create pictures of science things. The scientists want to see how well these machines do when they are given instructions on what kind of picture to make. They tested five different machine learning models and found out that while one model can do some things correctly, all the models struggle with more complicated tasks. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gpt » Image generation » Llama » Machine learning
