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most citedVisualization Literacy of Multimodal Large Language Models: A Comparative Study

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cs.GR2026

A Query-Efficient Stochastic Volume Rendering Framework for Time-Varying Implicit Neural Volumes

Alper Sahistan, Haichao Miao, Zhimin Li +3

Time-varying implicit neural representations (INRs) provide a compact representation of scientific volumes and, for modalities such as dynamic X-ray computed tomography (CT), are o…

cs.LG2026

Error Aware Distribution Prediction for Lightweight Implicit Neural Representations

Zhimin Li, Jake D. Balla, Joshua A. Levine

Implicit neural representations (INRs) offer compact encoding of volumes, but as lossy approximators, inevitably have prediction errors. We consider INRs that can simultaneously en…

cs.DC2026

Quantifying the Impact of Lossy Compression on Neural Generative Surrogate Modeling

Zhimin Li, Harshitha Menon, Charles Jekel +2

Neural networks are used as generative surrogate models for scientific discovery, which are trainable approximations of scientific simulations. These models enable users to replace…

cs.AI2026

Toward AI VIS Co-Scientists: A General and End-to-End Agent Harness for Solving Complex Data Visualization Tasks

Haichao Miao, Zhimin Li, Kuangshi Ai +4

The ability to inspect, interpret, and communicate complex data is crucial for virtually any scientific endeavor, but often requires significant expertise outside the core domain r…

cs.AI2026

Animating Petascale Time-varying Data on Commodity Hardware with LLM-assisted Scripting

Ishrat Jahan Eliza, Xuan Huang, Aashish Panta +4

Scientists face significant visualization challenges as time-varying datasets grow in speed and volume, often requiring specialized infrastructure and expertise to handle massive d…

cs.HC2025

An Evaluation-Centric Paradigm for Scientific Visualization Agents

Kuangshi Ai, Haichao Miao, Zhimin Li +2

Recent advances in multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled increasingly sophisticated autonomous visualization agents capable of translating user intentions into dat…

cs.LG2025

Seeing the Many: Exploring Parameter Distributions Conditioned on Features in Surrogates

Xiaohan Wang, Zhimin Li, Joshua A. Levine +1

Recently, neural surrogate models have emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional simulation workflows. This is accomplished by modeling the underlying function of scientif…

cs.HC2025

See or Recall: A Sanity Check for the Role of Vision in Solving Visualization Question Answer Tasks with Multimodal LLMs

Zhimin Li, Haichao Miao, Xinyuan Yan +3

Recent developments in multimodal large language models (MLLM) have equipped language models to reason about vision and language jointly. This permits MLLMs to both perceive and an…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Visualization Literacy of Multimodal Large Language Models: A Comparative Study

Zhimin Li, Haichao Miao, Valerio Pascucci +1

The recent introduction of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) combine the inherent power of large language models (LLMs) with the renewed capabilities to reason about the mul…

cs.HC2023★ 1 cited

AVA: Towards Autonomous Visualization Agents through Visual Perception-Driven Decision-Making

Shusen Liu, Haichao Miao, Zhimin Li +3

With recent advances in multi-modal foundation models, the previously text-only large language models (LLM) have evolved to incorporate visual input, opening up unprecedented oppor…

cs.LG2023

Instance-wise Linearization of Neural Network for Model Interpretation

Zhimin Li, Shusen Liu, Kailkhura Bhavya +3

Neural network have achieved remarkable successes in many scientific fields. However, the interpretability of the neural network model is still a major bottlenecks to deploy such t…

cs.HC2022★ 1 cited

"Understanding Robustness Lottery": A Geometric Visual Comparative Analysis of Neural Network Pruning Approaches

Zhimin Li, Shusen Liu, Xin Yu +5

Deep learning approaches have provided state-of-the-art performance in many applications by relying on large and overparameterized neural networks. However, such networks have been…