Open-Source PaperBanana Turns Text Into Academic Diagrams

An open-source implementation called "paperbanana" that automatically generates figures for research papers from text descriptions has been released. It is an unofficial community implementation based on the joint paper "PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists" (arXiv:2601.23265) by Google Research and Peking University, providing an agentic framework that generates publication-quality academic figures—such as methodology diagrams and statistical plots—from descriptions like a paper's methodology section.