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Chaoli Wang

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4 published item(s)

preprint2026arXiv

Exploring Interaction Paradigms for LLM Agents in Scientific Visualization

This paper examines how different types of large language model (LLM) agents perform on scientific visualization (SciVis) tasks, where users generate visualization workflows from natural-language instructions. We compare three primary interaction paradigms, including domain-specific agents with structured tool use, computer-use agents, and general-purpose coding agents, by evaluating eight representative agents across 15 benchmark tasks and measuring visualization quality, efficiency, robustness, and computational cost. We further analyze interaction modalities, including code scripts and model context protocol (MCP) or API calls for structured tool use, as well as command-line interfaces (CLI) and graphical user interfaces (GUI) for more general interaction, while additionally studying the effect of persistent memory in selected agents. The results reveal clear tradeoffs across paradigms and modalities. General-purpose coding agents achieve the highest task success rates but are computationally expensive, while domain-specific agents are more efficient and stable but less flexible. Computer-use agents perform well on individual steps but struggle with longer multi-step workflows, indicating that long-horizon planning is their primary limitation. Across both CLI- and GUI-based settings, persistent memory improves performance over repeated trials, although its benefits depend on the underlying interaction mode and the quality of feedback. These findings suggest that no single approach is sufficient, and future SciVis systems should combine structured tool use, interactive capabilities, and adaptive memory mechanisms to balance performance, robustness, and flexibility.

preprint2022arXiv

DL4SciVis: A State-of-the-Art Survey on Deep Learning for Scientific Visualization

Since 2016, we have witnessed the tremendous growth of artificial intelligence+visualization (AI+VIS) research. However, existing survey papers on AI+VIS focus on visual analytics and information visualization, not scientific visualization (SciVis). In this paper, we survey related deep learning (DL) works in SciVis, specifically in the direction of DL4SciVis: designing DL solutions for solving SciVis problems. To stay focused, we primarily consider works that handle scalar and vector field data but exclude mesh data. We classify and discuss these works along six dimensions: domain setting, research task, learning type, network architecture, loss function, and evaluation metric. The paper concludes with a discussion of the remaining gaps to fill along the discussed dimensions and the grand challenges we need to tackle as a community. This state-of-the-art survey guides SciVis researchers in gaining an overview of this emerging topic and points out future directions to grow this research.

preprint2022arXiv

SD2: Slicing and Dicing Scholarly Data for Interactive Evaluation of Academic Performance

Comprehensively evaluating and comparing researchers' academic performance is complicated due to the intrinsic complexity of scholarly data. Different scholarly evaluation tasks often require the publication and citation data to be investigated in various manners. In this paper, we present an interactive visualization framework, SD2, to enable flexible data partition and composition to support various analysis requirements within a single system. SD2 features the hierarchical histogram, a novel visual representation for flexibly slicing and dicing the data, allowing different aspects of scholarly performance to be studied and compared. We also leverage the state-of-the-art set visualization technique to select individual researchers or combine multiple scholars for comprehensive visual comparison. We conduct multiple rounds of expert evaluation to study the effectiveness and usability of SD2 and revise the design and system implementation accordingly. The effectiveness of SD2 is demonstrated via multiple usage scenarios with each aiming to answer a specific, commonly raised question.

preprint2020arXiv

Distributed Consensus of Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems With Mismatched Uncertainties and Unknown High-Frequency Gains (Extended Version)

This brief addresses the distributed consensus problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems under a general directed communication topology. Each agent is governed by higher-order dynamics with mismatched uncertainties, multiple completely unknown high-frequency gains, and external disturbances. The main contribution of this brief is to present a new distributed consensus algorithm, enabling the control input of each agent to require minimal information from its neighboring agents, that is, only their output information. To this end, a dynamic system is explicitly constructed for each agent to generate a reference output. Theoretical and simulation verifications of the proposed algorithm are rigorously studied to ensure that asymptotic consensus can be achieved and that all closed-loop signals remain bounded.