Visual Sketchpad

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Visual Sketchpad is a framework that provides visual sketchboards and drawing tools for multimodal large language models (LLMs). It allows the model to operate on its own drawn visual artifacts while planning and reasoning. Unlike previous approaches that used text as an inference step, Visual Sketchpad enables models to draw with elements that are closer to the way humans draw, such as lines, boxes, markers, etc., to better facilitate inference. In addition, it can use expert vision models during the drawing process, such as drawing bounding boxes with object detection models, or drawing masks with segmentation models, to further improve visual perception and reasoning capabilities.

Stakeholders:
Visual Sketchpad is for educators, researchers, and developers who need to leverage advanced AI technologies to enhance educational tools and research methods. It is particularly useful in situations where complex mathematical problems or visual reasoning are required, such as assisting students in understanding geometric concepts in the field of education or helping scientists with data visualization and analysis in the field of research.
Usage Scenario Examples:

Assist students to solve geometric problems by drawing auxiliary lines
Helps researchers make visual reasoning when performing scientific calculations
In programming and software development, help developers understand complex data structures and algorithms

The features of the tool:

Generate an intermediate sketch to reason through the task
Use auxiliary lines to solve geometry problems
Enhance visual perception with visual expert models
Significantly improved performance on mathematical and complex visual reasoning tasks
Supports a wide range of mathematical tasks (including geometry, functions, graphs, chess)
Integrated with large multimodal language models such as GPT-4

Steps for Use:

1. Visit the Visual Sketchliad web link
2. Read the product description and related information
3. Select the corresponding multimodal large language model for integration as required
4. Use Visual Sketchliad for task planning and reasoning
5. Use tools like assisted lines or boxes to enhance the reasoning process when solving specific problems
6. Further improve visual perception ability by combining expert visual models
7. Adjust sketch and reasoning strategies according to feedback to optimize problem solving efficiency

Tool’s Tabs: Multimodal, visual reasoning