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arxiv: 2603.14209 · v2 · submitted 2026-03-15 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

ChArtist: Generating Pictorial Charts with Unified Spatial and Subject Control

Shishi Xiao , Tongyu Zhou , David Laidlaw , Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan This is my paper

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keywords pictorial chartsdiffusion modelspatial controlsubject controlskeleton representationdata faithfulnessvisual storytellingDiffusion Transformer
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ChArtist generates pictorial charts by combining skeleton-based spatial control with subject control from reference images in a diffusion model.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents ChArtist as a domain-specific diffusion model that automatically creates pictorial charts blending data structures with visual elements. It introduces two controls: spatial guidance via skeletons that capture only the chart's data-encoding positions, and subject guidance that transfers visual characteristics from a reference image. This setup addresses the tension between flexible artistic elements and rigid data requirements by avoiding dense structural cues like edges or depths that conflict with aesthetics. The model is built on a Diffusion Transformer with adaptive position encoding and Spatially Gated Attention, trained on a new dataset of 30,000 skeleton-reference-chart triplets, and evaluated with a proposed unified data accuracy metric. If successful, this shows that task-specific representations can enable generative models to perform data-driven visual storytelling more effectively than general-purpose conditioning.

Core claim

By introducing a skeleton-based spatial control representation that encodes only the data-encoding information of the chart, ChArtist allows a diffusion model to incorporate reference visuals flexibly without rigid outline constraints. Implemented via the Diffusion Transformer with adaptive position encoding and Spatially Gated Attention to manage the two controls, the approach produces pictorial charts that respect both chart structure and subject appearance. A dataset of 30,000 triplets supports fine-tuning, and a unified data accuracy metric quantifies faithfulness.

What carries the argument

Skeleton-based spatial control representation, which encodes only the data-encoding information of the chart to enable flexible incorporation of reference visuals.

If this is right

  • Pictorial charts can be produced automatically while preserving data accuracy without manual creative deformation.
  • General image conditions like edge or depth maps are replaced by task-specific skeletons that better suit chart generation.
  • The Spatially Gated Attention mechanism modulates how spatial and subject controls interact during generation.
  • Fine-tuning on 30,000 triplets demonstrates a practical path for adapting pre-trained diffusion models to this domain.
  • The unified data accuracy metric offers a quantitative way to evaluate faithfulness in generated pictorial charts.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The skeleton approach could extend to generating other structured visuals such as diagrams or maps where data positions must stay fixed.
  • Combining this control with real-time data feeds might allow dynamic updating of pictorial charts without retraining.
  • The attention gating technique could apply to other multi-control generation tasks that mix structure and appearance.

Load-bearing premise

Encoding only the data positions in the skeleton provides enough structure to guide generation while leaving room for reference visuals to determine aesthetics without conflict.

What would settle it

Generated charts that systematically misalign data values with the input skeleton when measured by the proposed unified data accuracy metric would show the controls do not jointly maintain faithfulness.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2603.14209 by David Laidlaw, Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan, Shishi Xiao, Tongyu Zhou.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustrations of pictorial charts generated by ChArtist. We convert chart primitives such as bars, lines, and segments into vivid [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Pipelines for CHARTIST-30K Dataset Construction. pipelines, as the deformation needed to adapt the reference image R with the geometric properties in S varies substan￾tially across charts. For example, bar charts require the height of an object to be adjusted, while line and pie charts require more dramatic deformation to match the target topologies like curvature and angles. Thus, we propose two specializ… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The spectrum of control representation based on their [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: The whole architecture of ChArtist consists of (A) a pretrained DiT-based diffusion model with two conditional-LoRAs with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Artifacts observed when merging multiple LoRAs in par [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Illustrations of the data accuracy metric. We construct [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Result of spatially aligned evaluation with different con [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: (a) Dual-control generation results conditioned on both spatial structure and subject reference. (b) Results of ChArtsit with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Comparison with current SoTA image editing models. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_9.png] view at source ↗
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A pictorial chart is an effective medium for visual storytelling, seamlessly integrating visual elements with data charts. However, creating such images is challenging because the flexibility of visual elements often conflicts with the rigidity of chart structures. This process thus requires a creative deformation that maintains both data faithfulness and visual aesthetics. Current methods that extract dense structural cues from natural images (e.g., edge or depth maps) are ill-suited as conditioning signals for pictorial chart generation. We present ChArtist, a domain-specific diffusion model for generating pictorial charts automatically, offering two distinct types of control: 1) spatial control that aligns well with the chart structure, and 2) subject-driven control that respects the visual characteristics of a reference image. To achieve this, we introduce a skeleton-based spatial control representation. This representation encodes only the data-encoding information of the chart, allowing for the easy incorporation of reference visuals without a rigid outline constraint. We implement our method based on the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) and leverage an adaptive position encoding mechanism to manage these two controls. We further introduce Spatially Gated Attention to modulate the interaction between spatial control and subject control. To support the fine-tuning of pre-trained models for this task, we created a large-scale dataset of 30,000 triplets (skeleton, reference image, pictorial chart). We also propose a unified data accuracy metric to evaluate the data faithfulness of the generated charts. We believe this work demonstrates that current generative models can achieve data-driven visual storytelling by moving beyond general-purpose conditions to task-specific representations. Project page: https://chartist-ai.github.io/.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces ChArtist, a domain-specific diffusion model based on the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) for automatically generating pictorial charts. It proposes two controls: skeleton-based spatial control that encodes only data-encoding structure, and subject-driven control from reference images, modulated via Spatially Gated Attention and adaptive position encoding. The work includes creation of a 30,000-triplet dataset (skeleton, reference image, pictorial chart) and a unified data accuracy metric for evaluating faithfulness.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold, the task-specific skeleton representation and gated attention mechanism could advance controlled generation for data visualization by resolving conflicts between structural rigidity and aesthetic flexibility, providing a template for domain-adapted diffusion models beyond general-purpose conditioning signals.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4 (Evaluation): The manuscript introduces the unified data accuracy metric and claims effective balance of data faithfulness with aesthetics, but reports no quantitative results, baseline comparisons, or ablation studies on the 30k dataset; this leaves the central claim that the skeleton control plus Spatially Gated Attention achieves the desired outcome without verification.
  2. [§3.2] §3.2 (Spatially Gated Attention): The mechanism is introduced to modulate interaction between spatial and subject controls, yet the paper provides no equations or pseudocode detailing the gating function, its integration with adaptive position encoding, or how it avoids the conflicts noted for dense cues (e.g., edge maps); this is load-bearing for the architecture's novelty.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The project page link is given but no details on released code, dataset, or model weights are provided in the text, which would aid reproducibility.
  2. [§3] Notation for the skeleton representation and gated attention could be formalized with explicit equations rather than descriptive text to improve clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and have revised the paper to incorporate the suggested improvements.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4 (Evaluation): The manuscript introduces the unified data accuracy metric and claims effective balance of data faithfulness with aesthetics, but reports no quantitative results, baseline comparisons, or ablation studies on the 30k dataset; this leaves the central claim that the skeleton control plus Spatially Gated Attention achieves the desired outcome without verification.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the original manuscript presented the unified data accuracy metric and qualitative examples but lacked quantitative benchmarks, baseline comparisons, and ablations on the 30k dataset. In the revised version, we have expanded §4 to include these evaluations: we report numerical scores using the proposed metric, compare against relevant baselines, and provide ablation studies isolating the contributions of skeleton-based spatial control and Spatially Gated Attention. These additions directly verify the central claims regarding the balance of faithfulness and aesthetics. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Spatially Gated Attention): The mechanism is introduced to modulate interaction between spatial and subject controls, yet the paper provides no equations or pseudocode detailing the gating function, its integration with adaptive position encoding, or how it avoids the conflicts noted for dense cues (e.g., edge maps); this is load-bearing for the architecture's novelty.

    Authors: We agree that the description of Spatially Gated Attention was insufficiently detailed. The revised §3.2 now includes the full mathematical formulation of the gating function, pseudocode for its computation and integration with adaptive position encoding, and an explicit explanation of how the mechanism selectively modulates features to avoid the rigidity conflicts inherent in dense conditioning signals such as edge maps. These additions clarify the architectural novelty. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper's core contributions consist of newly defined components (skeleton-based spatial control that encodes only data-encoding structure, adaptive position encoding to separate conditioning streams, and Spatially Gated Attention to modulate their interaction) whose definitions and interactions are introduced independently of any fitted parameters or target outputs. The 30k-triplet dataset and unified accuracy metric are presented as external support for training and evaluation rather than as self-referential predictions. No equations reduce a claimed result to its own inputs by construction, no load-bearing self-citations are invoked to justify uniqueness or ansatzes, and no known empirical patterns are merely renamed. The derivation chain remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 2 invented entities

The claim depends on the new skeleton representation and attention mechanism being effective without prior independent validation; standard diffusion model assumptions are invoked implicitly.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Pre-trained diffusion models can be effectively fine-tuned for domain-specific tasks using custom conditioning signals.
    The method builds on Diffusion Transformer fine-tuning with the introduced controls and dataset.
invented entities (2)
  • Skeleton-based spatial control representation no independent evidence
    purpose: Encodes only data-encoding chart information to enable flexible visual incorporation without rigid constraints.
    Newly introduced in the paper as the key spatial control; no external evidence provided.
  • Spatially Gated Attention no independent evidence
    purpose: Modulates interaction between spatial and subject controls in the diffusion process.
    New attention mechanism proposed for this architecture; no prior references or independent validation.

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