Crystalis: Progressive Nucleation and Semantic Annealing for Coordinated Multi-View Visualization Generation

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大语言模型终于能可靠地生成多图联动的复杂仪表盘了，成功率从以往的8%飙升至75%，这标志着AI在数据可视化领域迈出了关键一步。过去AI能单独画一张图，但要制作那种点击一个图表、其他图表跟着联动的“多视图可视化”时，总是漏洞百出——数据、图表和交互三者之间牵一发而动全身，一个环节出错整个仪表盘就废了。新框架Crystalis就像一位资深设计师，先把大项目拆解成一个个独立小任务（比如“先确定数据需求”“再设计图表样式”“最后设定交互规则”），然后按固定顺序一步步完成每个小任务，同时反复检查不同小任务之间的协调性。这种“搭积木+质检员”的双重机制，让AI终于能稳定输出结构正确的多图联动看板。对普通人来说，这项技术最直接的影响是：数据分析师、记者、教师等需要制作数据报告的人，以后可以用自然语言快速生成交互式图表，比如“帮我做一个2024年各省GDP变化图，点某个省就能看到该省各产业的详细数据”。企业做销售分析、学校做教学演示、媒体做数据新闻都会变得更容易更高效，普通人看到的高质量动态数据报告也会越来越多。

arXiv:2607.24766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can generate individual charts, but coordinated multi-view visualizations (CMVs), where views share data flows and cross-view interactions, remain out of reach. Tight field-level coupling among data transformations, visual encodings, and interaction coordinations causes errors in one component to silently invalidate others. Rather than pursuing end-to-end analytical quality, which depends on model capability, domain knowledge, and user expertise, we target a foundational question: can LLMs reliably produce structurally correct CMVs, and what abstractions make this possible? We present Crystalis, a framework built on query-centric CMV modeling that decomposes a CMV into structured queries over a dependency graph spanning three component types (Data, Visualization, Interaction) and three abstraction levels (requirement, specification, executable object). Two complementary mechanisms operate over this structure: progressive nucleation crystallizes each query vertically from requirement to object along the dependency order, while semantic annealing enforces horizontal consistency across queries at each level through layered logical checks. On a 12-task benchmark across five frontier LLMs, Crystalis achieves up to 75% end-to-end success, substantially outperforming an agentic coding baseline (8.3% E2E with the same foundation model), and a user study with 12 practitioners confirms the usability of the decomposition and iterative refinement workflow.