Google and Peking University introduce PaperBanana for automated scientific figure generation
burkov · x · 2026-08-28
Google Research and Peking University introduced PaperBanana, an agentic framework designed to automate the creation of publication-ready methodology diagrams and statistical plots. It coordinates vision-language and image generation models using a workflow involving reference retrieval, visual planning, and iterative self-critique.
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