@inproceedings{
hu2024mplugpaperowl,
title={m{PLUG}-PaperOwl: Scientific Diagram Analysis with the Multimodal Large Language Model},
author={Anwen Hu and Yaya Shi and Haiyang Xu and Jiabo Ye and Qinghao Ye and Ming Yan and Chenliang Li and Qi Qian and Ji Zhang and Fei Huang},
booktitle={ACM Multimedia 2024},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=S7pieMItch}
}
Recently, the strong text creation ability of Large Language Models(LLMs) has given rise to many tools for assisting paper reading or even writing. However, the weak diagram analysis abilities of LLMs or Multimodal LLMs greatly limit their application scenarios, especially for scientific academic paper writing. In this work, towards a more versatile copilot for academic paper writing, we mainly focus on strengthening the multi-modal diagram analysis ability of Multimodal LLMs. By parsing Latex source files of high-quality papers, we carefully build a multi-modal diagram understanding dataset M-Paper. By aligning diagrams in the paper with related paragraphs, we construct professional diagram analysis samples for training and evaluation. M-Paper is the first dataset to support joint comprehension of multiple scientific diagrams, including figures and tables in the format of images or Latex codes. Besides, to better align the copilot with the user's intention, we introduce the `outline' as the control signal, which could be directly given by the user or revised based on auto-generated ones.  Comprehensive experiments with a state-of-the-art Multimodal LLM demonstrate that training on our dataset shows stronger scientific diagram understanding performance, including diagram captioning, diagram analysis, and outline recommendation. The dataset, code, and model will be publicly available.
mPLUG-PaperOwl: Scientific Diagram Analysis with the Multimodal Large Language Model
Anwen Hu Yaya Shi Haiyang Xu Jiabo Ye Qinghao Ye Ming Yan Chenliang Li Qi Qian Ji Zhang Fei Huang