arxivcs.CVcond-mat.mtrl-scics.AI2026-06-29
Unlocking the Visual Record of Materials Science: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset from Scientific Literature
Subham Ghosh, Shubham Tiwari, Mohammad Ibrahim, Abhishek Tewari
The materials science literature encodes decades of experimental knowledge in figures, yet this visual record remains locked away and inaccessible to AI at scale. The core difficulty is structural: most scientific figures are compound, with a single caption describing multiple su…