ChatCAS: A Multimodal Ceramic Multi-Agent Studio for Consultation, Image Analysis and Generation
Open Access
- 21 September 2025
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Electronics
- Vol. 14 (18) , 3735
Abstract
Many traditional ceramic techniques are inscribed on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage lists; yet, expert scarcity, long training cycles, and stylistic homogenization impede intergenerational transmission and innovation. Although large language models offer new opportunities, research tailored to ceramics remains limited. To address this gap, we first construct EvalCera, the first open-source domain large language model evaluation dataset for ceramic knowledge, image analysis, and generation, and conduct large-scale assessments of existing general large language models on ceramic tasks, revealing their limitations. We then release the first ceramics-focused training corpus for large language models and, using it, develop CeramicGPT, the first domain-specific large language model for ceramics. Finally, we built ChatCAS, a workflow multi-agent system built on CeramicGPT and GPT-4o. Experiments show that our model and agents achieve the best performance on EvalCera (A) and (B) text tasks as well as (C) image generation. The code is publicly available.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (62471280)
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