SciFig: Towards Automating Editable Figure Generation for Scientific Papers
High-quality methodology figures are central to scientific communication, yet they remain difficult and time-consuming to create. Such figures must distill a method's components and information flow into a clear, revisable diagram as the paper evolves. Existing methodology diagram automation systems typically face a trade-off between editability and visual quality: TikZ- or SVG-based methods produce editable structured outputs but often lack the richness of human-designed figures, while image-generation models produce polished raster outputs that are difficult to revise. We introduce SciFig, an end-to-end multi-agent framework for generating visually rich and fully editable methodology figures from scientific text. SciFig decomposes figure generation into planning, layout synthesis, component rendering, and iterative refinement, producing XML figures that can be edited in standard diagramming tools and refined through human or VLM feedback. We also introduce SciFig-Bench, a human-verified benchmark of 435 author-drawn methodology figures from 37 arXiv domains and 15 top-tier AI/ML venues, and SciFig-Eval, a four-axis evaluation protocol for measuring figure quality. Across seven single-agent and agentic baselines, SciFig achieves the best performance on all four SciFig-Eval axes and generates editable figures in about 10 minutes on average. Qualitative examples further show that SciFig can generalize beyond methodology figures to teaser diagrams and statistical plots. Dataset and code are available at: https://shramanpramanick.github.io/SciFig/.
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