Material node graphs are programs that generate the 2D channels of procedural materials, including geometry such as roughness and displacement maps, and reflectance such as albedo and conductivity maps. They are essential in computer graphics for representing the appearance of virtual 3D objects parametrically and at arbitrary resolution. In particular, their directed acyclic graph structure and intermediate states enable a modular, interpretable workflow for interactive appearance modeling. However, creating such graphs remains challenging and typically requires professional training. While recent neural program synthesis approaches attempt to simplify this process, they solely represent graphs as textual programs, failing to capture the inherently visual-spatial nature of node graphs that makes them accessible to humans. To address this gap, we present MultiMat, a multimodal program synthesis framework that leverages large multimodal models to process both visual and textual graph representations for improved generation of procedural material graphs. We train our models on a new dataset of production-quality procedural materials and combine them with a constrained tree search inference algorithm that ensures static correctness while efficiently navigating the program space. Our experimental results show that our multimodal program synthesis method is more efficient in both unconditional and conditional graph synthesis with higher visual quality and fidelity than text-only baselines, establishing new state-of-the-art performance.
ProMQA-Assembly: Multimodal Procedural QA Dataset on Assembly
Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学语言技术研究所);National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)(国立研究开发法人产业技术综合研究所(AIST))
VG-TVP: Multimodal Procedural Planning via Visually Grounded Text-Video Prompting
National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR)(新加坡科技研究局(A*STAR)信息通信研究院)
Cognitive Mismatch in Multimodal Large Language Models for Discrete Symbol Understanding
Tsinghua University(清华大学);Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学);Independent Researcher(独立研究员);The Hong Kong Polytechnic University(香港理工大学);Guangdong Laboratory of AI and Digital Economy (SZ)(广东省人工智能与数字经济实验室(深圳));University of Illinois Chicago(伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校)