PaperBanana: AI Now Generates Publication-Quality Academic Illustrations
PaperBanana from Google and Peking University is an agentic system that automatically generates publication-ready academic illustrations from paper text.
PaperBanana: AI Now Generates Publication-Quality Academic Illustrations
What's the most time-consuming part of writing a paper? Experiments? Writing? Many researchers point to "creating figures." Methodology diagrams, architecture schematics, result visualizations... each one can take hours or even days.
Researchers from Google and Peking University have released PaperBanana to solve this problem. It's an agentic system that automatically generates publication-ready academic illustrations from paper text alone.
Why Is This Needed?
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