@article{texttoautomatadiagramscomparingtikzcodeg, title = {Text to Automata Diagrams: Comparing TikZ Code Generation with Direct Image Synthesis}, author = {Ethan Young and Zichun Wang and Aiden Taylor and Chance Jewell and Julian Myers and Satya Sri Rajiteswari Nimmagadda and Anthony White and Aniruddha Maiti and Ananya Jana}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2603.07936}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07936}, }