Authors: Z Qiu, W Liu, H Feng, Z Liu, T Xiao
Year: 2024
Published in: ArXiv
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Max Planck Institute, University of Cambridge
Research Area: Computational cognition, LLM evaluation, Program synthesis, Multimodal reasoning
Discipline: Artificial Intelligence
Introduces SGP-Bench, a benchmark testing whether LLMs can answer semantic and spatial questions about images purely from graphics programs (SVG/CAD), effectively probing “visual imagination without vision.” The authors show current LLMs struggle - sometimes near chance - even when images are trivial for humans, but demonstrate that Symbolic Instruction Tuning (SIT) can meaningfully improve thi...