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Visual-ERM: Reward Modeling for Visual Equivalence

arXiv – CS AI|Ziyu Liu, Shengyuan Ding, Xinyu Fang, Xuanlang Dai, Penghui Yang, Jianze Liang, Jiaqi Wang, Kai Chen, Dahua Lin, Yuhang Zang|
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Researchers introduce Visual-ERM, a multimodal reward model that improves vision-to-code tasks by evaluating visual equivalence in rendered outputs rather than relying on text-based rules. The system achieves significant performance gains on chart-to-code tasks (+8.4) and shows consistent improvements across table and SVG parsing applications.

Key Takeaways
  • Visual-ERM addresses reward hacking issues in vision-to-code reinforcement learning by providing fine-grained visual feedback.
  • The system improved Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct performance by +8.4 on chart-to-code and +2.7, +4.1 on table and SVG parsing respectively.
  • A new benchmark VisualCritic-RewardBench was introduced to evaluate fine-grained image-to-image discrepancies on structured visual data.
  • Visual-ERM at 8B parameters outperformed much larger models like Qwen3-VL-235B-Instruct on the benchmark.
  • The research demonstrates that fine-grained visual reward supervision is sufficient for vision-to-code RL across different tasks.
Read Original →via arXiv – CS AI
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