Geoparsing: Diagram Parsing for Plane and Solid Geometry with a Unified Formal Language (2026.findings-acl)
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Peijie Wang, Ming-Liang Zhang, Jun Cao, Chao Deng, Dekang Ran, Pi Bu, Hongda Sun, Xuan Zhang, Yingyao Wang, Jun Song, Bo Zheng, Fei Yin, Cheng-Lin Liu
| Challenge: | Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various vision reasoning tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a unified formal language that integrates plane and solid geometry, comprehensively covering geometric structures and semantic relations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed language achieves state-of-the-art parsing performance and significantly boosts MLLMs’ capabilities for downstream geometry reasoning tasks. |
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