PaperBanana

PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration with AI

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March 28, 2026 What is PaperBanana?

Despite rapid advances in autonomous AI scientists, generating publication-ready illustrations remains a labor-intensive bottleneck. PaperBanana is an agentic framework that orchestrates specialized agents—Retriever, Planner, Stylist, Visualizer, and Critic—to transform raw scientific content into publication-quality diagrams and plots.

  • Reference-Driven Generation

PaperBanana retrieves relevant reference examples to guide style and content, ensuring your diagrams match academic standards.

  • Multi-Agent Collaboration

Five specialized agents work together: Retriever, Planner, Stylist, Visualizer, and Critic—each handling a critical step in the illustration pipeline.

  • Iterative Self-Critique

The Critic agent inspects generated images against source content, providing feedback for automatic refinement until publication-ready.

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I built PaperBanana because generating publication-ready illustrations is a massive, labor-intensive bottleneck in academic writing. Researchers are scientists, not graphic designers, yet they spend countless hours manua