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Amazing work! ๐
\nIt would be very cool to get a space demo of paperbanana so we can understand and try out how the vlms and generators are orchestrated.
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\nDisclaimer: This is not an official implementation, but I tried to implement it as close as possible. Just couldn't mimic those ~230 examples the research team added. However, with the help of the open-source community, we can add even more examples from diverse backgrounds (e.g., biology, AI research, math papers) and a nice retrieval mechanism to surpass the performance reported in the paper!
\nMore on this here - https://github.com/llmsresearch/paperbanana/wiki
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\nTry it here: - https://huggingface.co/spaces/dippatel1994/paperbanana
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We can use it until we have an official version from the Google research team.
Stunned! This is a huge tool for scientists! I was need this myself hahaha, I hate doing academic ilustrations manually.
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paperbanana-mcp\" if using Claude.
PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists
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_paperbanana is an agentic framework that automates the creation of publication-ready academic illustrations using advanced vision-language models and image generation techniques.
Despite rapid advances in autonomous AI scientists powered by language models, generating publication-ready illustrations remains a labor-intensive bottleneck in the research workflow. To lift this burden, we introduce PaperBanana, an agentic framework for automated generation of publication-ready academic illustrations. Powered by state-of-the-art VLMs and image generation models, PaperBanana orchestrates specialized agents to retrieve references, plan content and style, render images, and iteratively refine via self-critique. To rigorously evaluate our framework, we introduce PaperBananaBench, comprising 292 test cases for methodology diagrams curated from NeurIPS 2025 publications, covering diverse research domains and illustration styles. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that PaperBanana consistently outperforms leading baselines in faithfulness, conciseness, readability, and aesthetics. We further show that our method effectively extends to the generation of high-quality statistical plots. Collectively, PaperBanana paves the way for the automated generation of publication-ready illustrations.
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PaperBanana automates publication-ready AI research illustrations via an agentic framework using VLMs and image models, orchestrating reference retrieval, planning, rendering, and self-critique with a benchmarking suite.
This is excellent, I never considered science illustrations as a use-case for image gen models, but it makes total sense and I can see this applying to technical blogging as well.
Interestingly, I had to design a similar pipeline for illustrating games. We're a game studio trying to play "research lab" to push our frontiers, and the need to create structured illustrations at scale, with precision, seems to be a shared objective here.
We're just learning how to write up our results in a more "scientific" way besides "comments.md", and this is a helpful piece of the puzzle.
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Amazing work! ๐
It would be very cool to get a space demo of paperbanana so we can understand and try out how the vlms and generators are orchestrated.
someone should take inspiration from the twitter account "science diagrams that look like s***posts" and make a meme generator using this.
Released unofficial implementation with MCP server support: https://github.com/llmsresearch/paperbanana
We can use it until we have an official version from the Google research team.
Stunned! This is a huge tool for scientists! I was need this myself hahaha, I hate doing academic ilustrations manually.
MCP server & skills support is available now. You just need to use "uvx --from "paperbanana[mcp]" paperbanana-mcp" to configure the paperbanana mcp server. or, "claude mcp add paperbanana -e GOOGLE_API_KEY=your-key -- uvx --from "paperbanana[mcp]"
paperbanana-mcp" if using Claude.
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