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OmniDiagram: Advancing Unified Diagram Code Generation via Visual Interrogation Reward

arXiv 2604.05514 ↗First posted 7 Apr 2026cs.AIcited by 4

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Abstract (arXiv)

The paradigm of programmable diagram generation is evolving rapidly, playing a crucial role in structured visualization. However, most existing studies are confined to a narrow range of task formulations and language support, constraining their applicability to diverse diagram types. In this work, we propose OmniDiagram, a unified framework that incorporates diverse diagram code languages and task definitions. To address the challenge of aligning code logic with visual fidelity in Reinforcement Learning (RL), we introduce a novel visual feedback strategy named Visual Interrogation Verifies All (textscViva). Unlike brittle syntax-based rules or pixel-level matching, textscViva rewards the visual structure of rendered diagrams through a generative approach. Specifically, textscViva actively generates targeted visual inquiries to scrutinize diagram visual fidelity and provides fine-grained feedback for optimization. This mechanism facilitates a self-evolving training process, effectively obviating the need for manually annotated ground truth code. Furthermore, we construct M32Diagram, the first large-scale diagram code generation dataset, containing over 196k high-quality instances. Experimental results confirm that the combination of SFT and our textscViva-based RL allows OmniDiagram to establish a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) across diagram code generation benchmarks.

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