FigAct: Turning Scientific Figures into Active Canvases for Explanation

arXiv cs.AISeptember 30, 2026en

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arXiv:2609.36190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific figures are designed to communicate information visually, yet MLLMs typically explain them by translating their visual content back into text. This requires readers to manually map the resulting explanations back to the figure. Inspired by how people present visual information, we introduce FigAct, a framework that transforms static scientific figures into question-conditioned visual presentations by acting directly on their existing graphical elements. Like a human presenter, FigAct generates a sequence of short narrations, grounds each narration in the corresponding visual evidence, and applies visual actions to guide the viewer's

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