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most citedAutomaTikZ: Text-Guided Synthesis of Scientific Vector Graphics with TikZ

2 citations · 4 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CV2026

VisExMEM: Visual Evidence-Based Explainable Multimodal Evaluation Metric

Subhadeep Roy, Christoph Leiter, Steffen Eger

Current image-text evaluation often relies on a global score, which gives limited insight into which semantic details are supported by the image. Explainable metrics provide ration…

cs.CL2026

Feedback as an Interface: Controlling Form and Detail in LLM Translation Refinement

Yiqi Liu, Flavjo Tomori, Nafise Sadat Moosavi +2

Feedback presentation shapes how LLMs use evaluator judgments during translation refinement. We introduce a machine translation protocol that keeps the evaluator score, main issue,…

cs.AI2026

EdiTikZ: Scientific Figure Editing from Revision Trajectories

Christian Greisinger, Zhixue Zhao, Steffen Eger

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong performance in generating scientific figures from text or images. However, publication-ready figures often require iterative refinem…

cs.CL2026

When Writing Style Drifts: Benchmarking Authorship Verification under Distribution Shifts in Genre, Time and the AI-Era

Lotta Kiefer, Brisca Balthes, Christoph Leiter +3

Authorship verification (AV) assumes that an author's writing style remains sufficiently stable to distinguish it from that of other writers. In practice, however, this assumption…

cs.AI2026

TikZilla: Scaling Text-to-TikZ with High-Quality Data and Reinforcement Learning

Christian Greisinger, Steffen Eger

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to assist scientists across diverse workflows. A key challenge is generating high-quality figures from textual descriptions, ofte…

cs.CL2026

GerAV: Towards New Heights in German Authorship Verification using Fine-Tuned LLMs on a New Benchmark

Lotta Kiefer, Christoph Leiter, Sotaro Takeshita +2

Authorship verification (AV) is the task of determining whether two texts were written by the same author and has been studied extensively, predominantly for English data. In contr…

cs.CV2026

Prototypicality Bias Reveals Blindspots in Multimodal Evaluation Metrics

Subhadeep Roy, Gagan Bhatia, Steffen Eger

Automatic metrics are widely used to evaluate text-to-image models, often replacing human judgment in benchmarking, model selection, and large-scale data filtering. Yet they may re…

cs.CV2025

3DFroMLLM: 3D Prototype Generation only from Pretrained Multimodal LLMs

Noor Ahmed, Cameron Braunstein, Steffen Eger +1

Recent Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in learning joint representations from text and images. However, their spatial reasoning rema…

cs.CV2025

CROC: Evaluating and Training T2I Metrics with Pseudo- and Human-Labeled Contrastive Robustness Checks

Christoph Leiter, Yuki M. Asano, Margret Keuper +1

The assessment of evaluation metrics (meta-evaluation) is crucial for determining the suitability of existing metrics in text-to-image (T2I) generation tasks. Human-based meta-eval…

cs.CL2025

ContrastScore: Towards Higher Quality, Less Biased, More Efficient Evaluation Metrics with Contrastive Evaluation

Xiao Wang, Daniil Larionov, Siwei Wu +4

Evaluating the quality of generated text automatically remains a significant challenge. Conventional reference-based metrics have been shown to exhibit relatively weak correlation…

cs.CL2025

BatchGEMBA: Token-Efficient Machine Translation Evaluation with Batched Prompting and Prompt Compression

Daniil Larionov, Steffen Eger

Recent advancements in Large Language Model (LLM)-based Natural Language Generation evaluation have largely focused on single-example prompting, resulting in significant token over…

cs.CL2025

TikZero: Zero-Shot Text-Guided Graphics Program Synthesis

Jonas Belouadi, Eddy Ilg, Margret Keuper +5

Automatically synthesizing figures from text captions is a compelling capability. However, achieving high geometric precision and editability requires representing figures as graph…

cs.CL2024

PromptOptMe: Error-Aware Prompt Compression for LLM-based MT Evaluation Metrics

Daniil Larionov, Steffen Eger

Evaluating the quality of machine-generated natural language content is a challenging task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Recently, large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 h…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

ScImage: How Good Are Multimodal Large Language Models at Scientific Text-to-Image Generation?

Leixin Zhang, Steffen Eger, Yinjie Cheng +6

Multimodal large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating high-quality images from textual instructions. However, their performance in generat…

cs.CL2024

PrExMe! Large Scale Prompt Exploration of Open Source LLMs for Machine Translation and Summarization Evaluation

Christoph Leiter, Steffen Eger

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized NLP research. Notably, in-context learning enables their use as evaluation metrics for natural language generation, making them par…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

xCOMET-lite: Bridging the Gap Between Efficiency and Quality in Learned MT Evaluation Metrics

Daniil Larionov, Mikhail Seleznyov, Vasiliy Viskov +2

State-of-the-art trainable machine translation evaluation metrics like xCOMET achieve high correlation with human judgment but rely on large encoders (up to 10.7B parameters), maki…

cs.DL2024

Is there really a Citation Age Bias in NLP?

Hoa Nguyen, Steffen Eger

Citations are a key ingredient of scientific research to relate a paper to others published in the community. Recently, it has been noted that there is a citation age bias in the N…

cs.DL2023

NLLG Quarterly arXiv Report 09/23: What are the most influential current AI Papers?

Ran Zhang, Aida Kostikova, Christoph Leiter +5

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has witnessed rapid growth, especially in the subfields Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML) and Computer Vision (CV). Keeping pace…

cs.CL2023

The Eval4NLP 2023 Shared Task on Prompting Large Language Models as Explainable Metrics

Christoph Leiter, Juri Opitz, Daniel Deutsch +3

With an increasing number of parameters and pre-training data, generative large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities to solve tasks with minimal or no task-rel…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

AutomaTikZ: Text-Guided Synthesis of Scientific Vector Graphics with TikZ

Jonas Belouadi, Anne Lauscher, Steffen Eger

Generating bitmap graphics from text has gained considerable attention, yet for scientific figures, vector graphics are often preferred. Given that vector graphics are typically en…