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Conghui He

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RxnExBench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Structured Chemical Reaction Extraction from Scientific Literature

Screen Tables and Substrate Scopes are information-dense figures widely used in synthetic chemistry literature, yet automated extraction of structured reaction data from them remains challenging. We introduce RxnExBench, a multimodal benchmark for fine-grained reaction-level evaluation. Built from high-impact chemistry journals, it contains 3,565 expert-annotated reactions and 2,361 molecular structures. The dataset adopts a unified schema with 15 reaction roles and 26 core fields, supporting downstream AI-for-Chemistry tasks such as retrosynthetic planning, yield prediction, and reaction condition recommendation. RxnExBench further provides a reasoning-driven difficulty taxonomy, a modular annotation pipeline, and the Oracle-MolRec protocol, which disentangles molecular recognition from higher-level reasoning. Evaluation of 9 state-of-the-art VLMs shows that performance degrades substantially as schema complexity and reasoning demands increase. Under the Oracle-MolRec setting, results further reveal that accurate molecular recognition alone is insufficient, with multimodal integration and chemistry-aware reasoning remaining the primary bottlenecks. We release all data and code to facilitate future research in chemistry-aware multimodal understanding and AI-for-Chemistry dataset construction. The dataset and code will be released at https://github.com/opendatalab/RxnExBench.

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DocLayout-YOLO: Axis-Attentive Document Layout Detector with Mesh-Guided Synthetic Pretraining

Accurate and efficient document layout analysis is critical for modern document parsing systems. However, although the YOLO framework represents a leading paradigm for the real-time detector, its adaptation to heterogeneous documents remains underexplored. To address this gap, we propose DocLayout-YOLO, a document-specialized real-time detector that integrates diverse synthetic document pretraining and page-axis context modeling. From the data perspective, we introduce MeshLayout-1M, a synthetic pretraining corpus generated by the proposed Mesh-candidate BestFit algorithm, which provides large-scale and diverse document layouts for pretraining and improves adaptation to heterogeneous document scenarios. From the model perspective, we propose Page-Axis Layout Attention (PALA), which captures long-range dependencies along the horizontal and vertical page axes while remaining computationally efficient. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DocLayout-YOLO achieves state-of-the-art performance on four heterogeneous document benchmarks, obtaining 72.4%/75.5%/96.0%/73.1% mAP50:95 on D4LA, M6Doc, HJDataset, and PRIMA-LAD, respectively. Compared with existing real-time detectors, DocLayout-YOLO establishes a superior accuracy-efficiency trade-off in document layout analysis. Code, model, and data are available at https://github.com/opendatalab/DocLayout-YOLO/tree/release-v2.

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CiteVQA: Benchmarking Evidence Attribution for Trustworthy Document Intelligence

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly advanced document understanding, yet current Doc-VQA evaluations score only the final answer and leave the supporting evidence unchecked. This answer-only approach masks a critical failure mode: a model can land on the correct answer while grounding it in the wrong passage---a critical risk in high-stakes domains like law, finance, and medicine, where every conclusion must be traceable to a specific source region. To address this, we introduce CiteVQA, a benchmark that requires models to return \textit{element-level} bounding-box citations alongside each answer, evaluating both jointly. CiteVQA comprises 1,897 questions across 711 PDFs spanning seven domains and two languages, averaging 40.6 pages per document. To ensure fidelity and scalability, the ground-truth citations are generated by an automated pipeline---which identifies crucial evidence via masking ablation and enforces multi-stage quality control. At the core of our evaluation is Strict Attributed Accuracy (SAA), which credits a prediction only when the answer and the cited region are both correct. Auditing 20 MLLMs reveals a pervasive Attribution Hallucination: models frequently produce the right answer while citing the wrong region. The strongest system (Gemini-3.1-Pro-Preview) achieves an SAA of only 76.0, and the strongest open-source MLLM reaches just 22.5. Ultimately, towards trustworthy document intelligence, CiteVQA exposes a reliability gap that answer-only evaluations overlook, providing the instrumentation needed to close it. Our repository is available at https://github.com/opendatalab/CiteVQA.

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DataFlex: A Unified Framework for Data-Centric Dynamic Training of Large Language Models

Data-centric training has emerged as a promising direction for improving large language models (LLMs) by optimizing not only model parameters but also the selection, composition, and weighting of training data during optimization. However, existing approaches to data selection, data mixture optimization, and data reweighting are often developed in isolated codebases with inconsistent interfaces, hindering reproducibility, fair comparison, and practical integration. In this paper, we present DataFlex, a unified data-centric dynamic training framework built upon LLaMA-Factory. DataFlex supports three major paradigms of dynamic data optimization: sample selection, domain mixture adjustment, and sample reweighting, while remaining fully compatible with the original training workflow. It provides extensible trainer abstractions and modular components, enabling a drop-in replacement for standard LLM training, and unifies key model-dependent operations such as embedding extraction, inference, and gradient computation, with support for large-scale settings including DeepSpeed ZeRO-3. We conduct comprehensive experiments across multiple data-centric methods. Dynamic data selection consistently outperforms static full-data training on MMLU across both Mistral-7B and Llama-3.2-3B. For data mixture, DoReMi and ODM improve both MMLU accuracy and corpus-level perplexity over default proportions when pretraining Qwen2.5-1.5B on SlimPajama at 6B and 30B token scales. DataFlex also achieves consistent runtime improvements over original implementations. These results demonstrate that DataFlex provides an effective, efficient, and reproducible infrastructure for data-centric dynamic training of LLMs.

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RxnOptBench: Benchmarking LLMs for Reaction-Condition Optimization in Organic Methodology

Chemical reaction-condition optimization -- choosing the catalyst, ligand, solvent, reagent, temperature, time, and atmosphere that jointly maximize yield and stereoselectivity -- is a central, judgement-laden subtask of organic methodology research that large language models are increasingly expected to support. Yet existing chemistry benchmarks evaluate reaction-class labelling, retrosynthesis, or SMILES manipulation, and do not ask models to read a real condition-screening table and pick the best set. We introduce RxnOptBench, a benchmark whose every option and precedent is a real wet-lab entry mined from the optimization tables of organic-methodology papers published in 2025, graded by a continuous relative score derived from a declared headline utility that combines reported yield with enantiomeric excess (ee), diastereomeric ratio (dr), and regioisomeric ratio (rr), and equipped with a paired precedents-vs-no-precedents design that isolates in-context use of literature evidence from parametric memorization. Across nine frontier LLMs and three Chemistry LLMs, even the best models leave substantial headroom: chemistry-specialized models fall to the random-baseline floor on multi-axis selection, while open-weight models have closed most of the gap to proprietary frontier models. We release the final human-reviewed benchmark test set and evaluation code.

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ManiVid: Unified and Explainable Forensic Analysis of Manipulated Videos

Rapid advances in AI-generated video (AIGV) have increased the risks posed by deceptive video manipulation. Unlike fully synthetic videos, manipulated videos retain most source content and alter only localized regions, making forensic analysis particularly challenging. Existing video forgery research faces two limitations in both data and methodology: (1) High-quality datasets and benchmarks tailored for manipulated videos remain scarce. (2) Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) extend forgery analysis beyond binary classification but struggle to use low-level forensic cues and provide precise pixel-level grounding. Specifically, we introduce ManiVid, a unified forensic analysis task covering forgery detection, artifact grounding, and anomaly explanation for manipulated videos. We construct ManiVid-38K, the first dataset to combine paired, open-vocabulary localized manipulations of general videos with authenticity labels, forgery masks, and anomaly explanations. It comprises about 19K manually verified real-fake video pairs, mostly at 1080P resolution, generated under 2 paradigms with 15 powerful generation models. We sample 1K pairs for ManiVidBench, balanced across six manipulation types and generation models for fair evaluation. We further propose ManiVidLens, a unified framework for explainable video forgery analysis. Its Forensic Evidence Router supplies shared low-level forensic evidence for multimodal reasoning and video segmentation. Its Prompt Distill Module converts grounding states into semantic and geometric prompts and distills spatial priors for mask decoding and full-video propagation. ManiVidLens achieves relative gains over the strongest comparison methods in artifact grounding (+21.1% mIoU; +21.3% J&F) and anomaly explanation (+131.3% ROUGE-L; +9.9% CSS). Its forgery detection remains comparable to dedicated classifiers (0.914 Acc; 0.913 F1).

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The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement

Recursive self-improvement (RSI) enables AI systems to turn experience and feedback into persistent changes that improve both their capabilities and the process of future improvement. We first use the Headroom-Closed Index (HCI) to reveal the problems of existing LLMs, then introduce the RSI concept and its development roadmap: from improvement-execution autonomy, improvement-strategy autonomy, experience-acquisition autonomy, and environment-adaptation autonomy, to recursive meta-improvement. Next we examine RSI across scenarios (e.g., scientific discovery, embodied intelligence, software engineering), highlighting their distinct requirements and development speeds. Drawing on diverse industry practices and preliminary empirical evidence, we connect RSI research with practical systems and identify key challenges to achieving genuine RSI.

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Earth-Agent-Pro: Towards Real-World Full-Chain Earth Observation with Agents

Real-world Earth observation (EO) agents must translate high-level scientific questions into executable workflows to acquire observations, prepare data, perform domain computations, and derive conclusions from runtime evidence. Existing EO agents typically start from supplied observations, while benchmarks typically provide prepared inputs or candidate answers, leaving full-chain open-world EO execution largely untested. We present Earth-Agent-Pro, an execution-adaptive Plan-and-Execute framework using expert-authored skills to constrain planning and runtime tool use. Workflow-centered structured memory records planned steps, accepted evidence, and their dependencies, enabling repair of only the affected workflow suffix when runtime evidence invalidates a step. Separate large language model adapters use sequence-level supervised fine-tuning for planner workflow composition and node-level group relative policy optimization with locally verifiable rewards for executor tool-argument grounding. Earth-Bench-Pro instantiates 248 expert-curated task cores as 744 questions under three matched regimes. Its 248 Open-World Execution questions span RGB imagery, spectral observations, and remote sensing products, pairing high-level requests with runtime data requirements, executable trajectories, and open-ended answers grounded in execution evidence. With a shared GPT-5 backbone, Earth-Agent-Pro achieves 66.13% LLM-as-Judge accuracy, exceeding ReAct by 20.95 points in this metric and 24.44 points in Tools-In-Order. Joint adapter tuning raises Qwen3.5-9B LLM-as-Judge accuracy from 38.31% to 50.00%, an 11.69-point gain over the untuned configuration. Planning-only evaluation and execution with the reference workflow show that the adapters improve workflow composition and argument grounding, respectively. Code and datasets will be released soon.

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DianShi-RxnDB: A Large-Scale, Fine-Grained Organic Reaction Data Platform Built via a Fully Automated Pipeline for Researchers and AI Agents

High-quality structured organic reaction data are essential for developing artificial intelligence for chemistry (AI4Chem), yet much of this knowledge remains dispersed across patent text, images, and reaction schemes. We present DianShi-RxnDB, a large-scale, fine-grained organic reaction data platform built via a fully automated extraction and normalization pipeline integrating patent text, images, and reaction schemes. Its corpus covers organic synthesis patents from the USPTO and EPO published between 1976 and 2025, yielding approximately 24 million reaction instances, of which approximately 14.8 million (61.7%) pass automated qualification checks. Each instance represents a specific single-step experiment recording participants, roles, quantities, temperatures, reaction times, yields, experimental procedures, and provenance links to source patents. In a manual evaluation of 1,300 sampled qualified instances, the micro-averaged field-level accuracy was 92.95%. A matched comparison with Pistachio further indicated advantages in deduplicated record counts, representation granularity, and field-level exact agreement. The platform provides a Web research workbench for searching, filtering, comparing, and source-verifying records, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) service offering AI agents composable structured retrieval tools. DianShi-RxnDB is available at https://dianshi.opendatalab.org.cn/ .

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Scientific Image Synthesis: Benchmarking, Methodologies, and Downstream Utility

While synthetic data has proven effective for improving scientific reasoning in the text domain, multimodal reasoning remains constrained by the difficulty of synthesizing scientifically rigorous images. Existing Text-to-Image (T2I) models often produce outputs that are visually plausible yet scientifically incorrect, resulting in a persistent visual-logic divergence that limits their value for downstream reasoning. Motivated by recent advances in next-generation T2I models, we conduct a systematic study of scientific image synthesis across generation paradigms, evaluation, and downstream use. We analyze both direct pixel-based generation and programmatic synthesis, and propose ImgCoder, a logic-driven framework that follows an explicit "understand - plan - code" workflow to improve structural precision. To rigorously assess scientific correctness, we introduce SciGenBench, which evaluates generated images based on information utility and logical validity. Our evaluation reveals systematic failure modes in pixel-based models and highlights a fundamental expressiveness-precision trade-off. Finally, we show that fine-tuning Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) on rigorously verified synthetic scientific images yields consistent reasoning gains, with potential scaling trends analogous to the text domain, validating high-fidelity scientific synthesis as a viable path to unlocking massive multimodal reasoning capabilities.

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Benchmarking and Boosting Multilingual Capabilities of LVLMs via OCR-Centric Reinforcement Learning

Evaluating the multilingual capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) remains challenging because most benchmarks rely on non-parallel corpora, making it unclear whether cross-lingual performance gaps reflect model limitations or dataset inconsistencies. To address this, we introduce PM4Bench, the first multimodal, multilingual, multi-task benchmark built on a strictly parallel 10-language corpus, enabling fair, apples-to-apples cross-lingual comparison of model performance. We further introduce a vision setting that embeds textual inputs directly into images, better approximating deployment scenarios where LVLM-driven agents interact with virtual or physical environments through unified visual observations. Experiments with 10 LVLMs reveal that OCR is a key factor behind cross-lingual disparity when textual content is rendered visually. Motivated by this, we design an OCR-centric GRPO training strategy using fully synthesized, label-free OCR data, without expensive task-specific VQA supervision. The resulting model improves general multilingual VQA capability, reduces cross-lingual disparities under the vision setting, and transfers gains beyond PM4Bench. This methodology offers an efficient, label-free pathway toward more equitable multilingual deployment of LVLM-driven agents.

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MinerU.Chem: A High-Precision System for Optical Chemical Structure and Reaction Recognition

In organic chemistry papers and patents, molecular structures, reaction schemes, and experimental conditions are often presented as molecular structure depictions, reaction diagrams, and complex tables or figures. Such information is difficult for general-purpose document parsing systems to directly convert into machine-readable data. This limits data production for organic chemistry knowledge base construction and for AI for Chemistry tasks such as reaction prediction, retrosynthesis, condition recommendation, molecular property prediction, and drug molecule design. This report introduces MinerU-Chem, a document parsing system for organic chemistry literature integrated into the MinerU online platform. Built on top of MinerU's general document parsing pipeline, MinerU-Chem adds five chemistry-specific modules: chemistry relevance filtering, molecular structure detection, molecule identifier extraction, molecular structure recognition, and reaction scheme parsing. Together, these modules convert organic-chemistry-related image regions in documents into a Molecule Summary List and a Reaction Summary List. For molecular structure recognition, MinerU-Chem uses CARBON (Complex Atomic Representation and Bonding Object Notation) as its core representation. CARBON enables recognition results to preserve both the visual layout of the original image and complex chemical semantics, while supporting the export of standard downstream formats such as MolFile and SMILES. On the SMILES-evaluable subset of MolRecBench-Wild (N=2,392), MinerU-Chem's molecular structure recognition module achieves a SMILES exact-match accuracy of 93.02%, outperforming the best evaluated comparison system, GPT-5.6-Sol (74.87%), by 18.15 percentage points. The system has been integrated into the MinerU online platform and is available at https://mineru.net/OpenSourceTools/Extractor .

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Dripper: Token-Efficient Main HTML Extraction with a Lightweight LM

High-quality main content extraction from web pages is a critical prerequisite for constructing large-scale training corpora. While traditional heuristic extractors are efficient, they lack the semantic reasoning required to handle the structural heterogeneity of the modern web. Conversely, well-pretrained generative Large Language Models (LLMs) offer superior document comprehension but are prohibited by excessive computational costs, limited context windows, and hallucination risks when applied at web scale. We present \textbf{Dripper}, a lightweight framework that resolves these bottlenecks through four contributions: (1) We reformulate extraction as a \textbf{constrained sequence labeling} task using SLMs (Small Language Models). This paradigm eliminates generative hallucinations and achieves exceptional efficiency, reaching a throughput of 3.08 pages per second on a single A100 GPU. (2) We construct \textbf{WebMainBench}, a rigorous benchmark of 7,809 human-annotated pages covering 5,434 unique domains and multiple languages. Evaluations show our Dripper-0.6B model \textbf{outperforms} heuristics like Trafilatura and rivals massive models like DeepSeek-V3.2(685B), GPT-5 and Gemini-2.5-Pro, offering an optimal efficiency-accuracy trade-off. (3) We demonstrate infrastructural value by \textbf{pre-training a 1B model} on a Dripper-curated corpus (63B tokens). This model significantly outperforms baselines in downstream tasks, proving the critical role of extraction quality and the effectiveness of our framework. (4) We \textbf{open-source} the Dripper-0.6B weights and codebase to facilitate the construction of high-quality datasets.

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Rethinking Token-wise Feature Caching: Accelerating Diffusion Transformers with Dual Feature Caching

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have become the dominant methods in image and video generation yet still suffer substantial computational costs. As an effective approach for DiT acceleration, feature caching methods are designed to cache the features of DiT in previous timesteps and reuse them in the next timesteps, allowing us to skip the computation in the next timesteps. Among them, token-wise feature caching has been introduced to perform different caching ratios for different tokens in DiTs, aiming to skip the computation for unimportant tokens while still computing the important ones. In this paper, we propose to carefully check the effectiveness in token-wise feature caching with the following two questions: (1) Is it really necessary to compute the so-called "important" tokens in each step? (2) Are so-called important tokens really important? Surprisingly, this paper gives some counter-intuition answers, demonstrating that consistently computing the selected ``important tokens'' in all steps is not necessary. The selection of the so-called ``important tokens'' is often ineffective, and even sometimes shows inferior performance than random selection. Based on these observations, this paper introduces dual feature caching referred to as DuCa, which performs aggressive caching strategy and conservative caching strategy iteratively and selects the tokens for computing randomly. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in DiT, PixArt, FLUX, and OpenSora, demonstrating significant improvements than the previous token-wise feature caching.

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SKILLER: Language-Level Reinforcement Learning for Reusable Skill Extraction in Small Language Models

Agent skills represent a standardized format for packaging procedural knowledge and domain expertise, serving within agent harness systems as an essential mechanism to continually constrain a language model's behavior space for repeatable, high-quality task execution. However, because strong closed-source models entail high inference costs, current popular agent harnesses, such as Codex and OpenClaw, remain prohibitively expensive when deploying these skills to accomplish real-world tasks. The rapid capability enhancement of open-source models deployable on consumer-grade GPUs presents a compelling opportunity to drastically reduce these costs by leveraging skill-based behavioral constraints. Nevertheless, automatically generating effective skills tailored specifically for such compact models remains a significant practical challenge. To address this, we propose SKILLER, a natural-language-driven reinforcement learning framework designed to automatically generate executor-specific skills for small models, which employs a strong model as the actor and critic, treats the small-model agent system as the environment, and propagates all reinforcement learning signals entirely via natural language. Extensive experimental evaluations across five relevant benchmarks using Qwen3.5-9B and Qwen3.5-4B demonstrate that SKILLER outperforms three open-source and one closed-source skill generation or evolution methods, achieving absolute gains ranging from 4.3 to 20.4 percentage points for the 9B model and 1.8 to 13.3 points for the 4B model, while remarkably matching the performance of strong closed-source models on single-skill tasks in SkillsBench. The project is available at https://github.com/DANG-ai/SKILLER.

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ReMMD: Realistic Multilingual Multi-Image Agentic Verification for Multimodal Misinformation Detection

Multimodal misinformation detection is increasingly important because viral posts now combine long multilingual narratives, several images, mixed provenance, and subtle cross-modal framing errors. Existing benchmarks and methods remain poorly matched to this setting: they usually isolate short captions, single images, binary labels, or one manipulation source, while agentic verification remains costly under realistic evidence search. We present ReMMD, a realistic multilingual multi-image agentic verification framework for multimodal misinformation detection. ReMMD includes ReMMDBench, a real-world multimodal misinformation detection benchmark with 500 samples, 2,756 images, five monolingual evaluations, two cross-lingual settings, three text-length tiers, multi-image posts, five-way veracity labels, eight distortion labels, evidence provenance, and rationales. It also includes ReMMD-Agent, a persistent-memory verifier that decomposes posts into atomic points, builds a reusable evidence set, and predicts structured veracity verdicts, fine-grained distortion diagnoses, and explanatory rationales. Across proprietary systems, open LVLMs, MMD-Agent, and T$^2$-Agent, ReMMD-Agent obtains the best five-way veracity performance, with 41.80% accuracy and 39.12% macro-F1 using GPT-5.2, while reducing cost by 17.5% relative to MMD-Agent and 79.9% relative to T$^2$-Agent. The project is available at https://dang-ai.github.io/ReMMD.

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From Diagnosis to Correction: Benchmarking and Improving Real-World Table Parsing

Recent document parsers achieve table TEDS scores above 93 on OmniDocBench v1.6, yet community feedback and our audit reveal persistent failures on complex real-world tables. To quantify this gap, we introduce TableParseMap, a diagnostic benchmark of 916 real-world tables organized into five challenging scenarios and nine failure types. The strongest evaluated parser achieves only 85.03 TEDS, showing that aggregate benchmark scores conceal substantial weaknesses. Our analysis attributes these failures to three complementary limitations: large tables exceed the reliable processing scale of a single pass, weak or ambiguous visual cues hinder structure perception, and the reconstructed table may remain visually inconsistent with the image. We therefore propose DEC (Decompose--Enhance--Correct), a visual-consistency-guided agentic framework that improves frozen table parsers without retraining. DEC uses a general VLM as the controller: Decompose partitions large tables along structure-aware boundaries, Enhance exposes weak visual evidence and reparses transformed views, and Correct diagnoses and repairs residual errors. A Visual Consistency Gate (VC-Gate) selectively triggers intervention, while a Visual Consistency Ranker (VC-Ranker) verifies candidate updates and supports rollback without ground-truth HTML at inference time. We further derive a 1,977-table Consensus-Hard Set from 4,556 candidates through offline metrics and cross-model consensus. Across three frozen parsers, DEC improves TEDS by 1.57 points on average; on TableParseMap, gains reach 1.89 points overall, 2.62 on structural errors, and 5.66 on large tables.

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PosterMELD: Multi-Agent Paper-to-Poster Generation for Controllable Design Diversity with Editable Print-Ready Outputs

Scientific poster construction compresses a long multimodal paper into a readable, editable canvas. Existing systems hide request-level failures by scoring only completed outputs; direct image generation is not element-editable, while coding-agent workflows are costly. PosterMELD is a template-conditioned multi-agent pipeline: capacity-aware slots guide writing before rendering, and deterministic gates plus vision-language model (VLM) review route failures to bounded repair. Each accepted request exports editable PowerPoint (PPTX) and Portable Network Graphics (PNG) artifacts; explicit design controls yield same-paper variants. Across 621 papers, Print-Ready Rate (PRR) counts requests passing geometric, readability, asset-integrity, and obvious-factual-error checks, with native editability reported separately. A frozen VLM assigns conditional Craftsmanship-Harmony-Expressiveness (CHE) scores to print-ready outputs. PosterMELD attains 81.3% PRR, 3.4 times P2P's rate and 5.2 times PosterGen's, and the highest conditional CHE among generated methods with multiple print-ready outputs. Native editability and explicit design controls are retained at a mean cost of USD 0.38 per request, 3.5% of Codex+Skill's. Code and resources are available at https://github.com/Shannon4Science/PosterMELD.

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