Title: Factuality Matters: When Image Generation and Editing Meet Structured Visuals
Primary area: generative models
Keywords: Generative Modeling, Unified Model, Image Editing, Text-to-Image Generation, Benchmark

Abstract: While modern visual generation models excel at creating aesthetically pleasing natural images, they struggle with producing or editing structured visuals like charts, diagrams, and mathematical figures, which demand composition planning, text rendering, and multimodal reasoning for factual fidelity. To address this, we present the first comprehensive, systematic investigation of this domain, encompassing data construction, model training, and an evaluation benchmark. First, we construct a large-scale dataset of 1.3 million high-quality structured image pairs derived from executable drawing programs and augmented with chain-of-thought reasoning annotations. Leveraging this dataset, we train a unified model that integrates a multimodal language model with FLUX.1-Kontext via a lightweight connector for enhanced multimodal understanding. A three-stage training curriculum enables progressive feature alignment, knowledge infusion, and reasoning-augmented generation, further boosted by an external reasoner at inference time. Finally, we introduce StructBench, a novel benchmark for generation and editing with over 2,000 challenging samples, and an accompanying evaluation metric, StructScore, which employs a multi-round Q&A protocol to assess fine-grained factual accuracy. Evaluations of 15 models reveal that even state-of-the-art systems score below 50\%, while our model achieves the strongest open-source performance, with consistent gains from inference-time reasoning. By releasing dataset, model, and benchmark, we aim to advance unified multimodal foundations for structured visuals.

TL;DR: We present the first comprehensive, systematic investigation of this domain, encompassing data construction, model training, and an evaluation benchmark.