VisJudge-Bench: Aesthetics and Quality Assessment of Visualizations

Researchers introduced VisJudge-Bench, the first comprehensive benchmark for evaluating AI models' ability to assess visualization quality and aesthetics, revealing significant gaps between advanced models like GPT-5 and human expert judgment. They developed VisJudge, a specialized model that achieved 60.5% better correlation with human assessments compared to GPT-5.