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Beauty in the Eye of AI: Aligning LLMs and Vision Models with Human Aesthetics in Network Visualization

Network visualization has traditionally relied on heuristic metrics, such as stress, under the assumption that optimizing them leads to aesthetic and informative layouts. However, no single metric consistently produces the most effective results. A data-driven alternative is to learn from human preferences, where annotators select their favored visualization among multiple layouts of the same graphs. These human-preference labels can then be used to train a generative model that approximates human aesthetic preferences. However, obtaining human labels at scale is costly and time-consuming. As a result, this generative approach has so far been tested only with machine-labeled data. In this...

AuthorsPeng Zhang, Xuefeng Li, Xiaoqi Wang et al.
Primary categorycs.LG
Published3 April 2026
Last updated at source3 April 2026
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