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

ArXi:2604.03417v1 Announce Type: new 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.