Satya Sri Rajiteswari Nimmagadda

Satya Sri Rajiteswari Nimmagadda, Ethan Young, Niladri Sengupta et al.

This paper investigates whether structured representations can preserve the meaning of scientific sentences. To test this, a lightweight LLM is fine-tuned using a novel structural loss function to generate hierarchical JSON structures from sentences collected from scientific articles. These JSONs are then used by a generative model to reconstruct the original text. Comparing the original and reconstructed sentences using semantic and lexical similarity we show that hierarchical formats are capable of retaining information of scientific texts effectively.

Ethan Young, Zichun Wang, Aiden Taylor et al.

Diagrams are widely used in teaching computer science courses. They are useful in subjects such as automata and formal languages, data structures, etc. These diagrams, often drawn by students during exams or assignments, vary in structure, layout, and correctness. This study examines whether current vision-language and large language models can process such diagrams and produce accurate textual and digital representations. In this study, scanned student-drawn diagrams are used as input. Then, textual descriptions are generated from these images using a vision-language model. The descriptions are checked and revised by human reviewers to make them accurate. Both the generated and the revised descriptions are then fed to a large language model to generate TikZ code. The resulting diagrams are compiled and then evaluated against the original scanned diagrams. We found descriptions generated directly from images using vision-language models are often incorrect and human correction can substantially improve the quality of vision language model generated descriptions. This research can help computer science education by paving the way for automated grading and feedback and creating more accessible instructional materials.

Anastasiia Sukhanova, Aiden Taylor, Julian Myers et al.

Digital dentistry has made significant advances with the advent of deep learning. However, the majority of these deep learning-based dental image analysis models focus on very specific tasks such as tooth segmentation, tooth detection, cavity detection, and gingivitis classification. There is a lack of a specialized model that has holistic knowledge of teeth and can perform dental image analysis tasks based on that knowledge. Datasets of dental images with captions can help build such a model. To the best of our knowledge, existing dental image datasets with captions are few in number and limited in scope. In many of these datasets, the captions describe the entire mouth, while the images are limited to the anterior view. As a result, posterior teeth such as molars are not clearly visible, limiting the usefulness of the captions for training vision-language models. Additionally, the captions focus only on a specific disease (gingivitis) and do not provide a holistic assessment of each tooth. Moreover, tooth disease scores are typically assigned to individual teeth, and each tooth is treated as a separate entity in orthodontic procedures. Therefore, it is important to have captions for single-tooth images. As far as we know, no such dataset of single-tooth images with dental captions exists. In this work, we aim to bridge that gap by assessing the possibility of generating captions for dental images using Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and evaluating the extent and quality of those captions. Our findings suggest that guided prompts help VLMs generate meaningful captions. We show that the prompts generated by our framework are better anchored in describing the visual aspects of dental images. We selected RGB images as they have greater potential in consumer scenarios.