arXiv:2610.16784v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Generating and editing presentation slides requires models to combine accurate text rendering, instruction following, visual grounding, aesthetic des...
By Jiahao Wang, Xiyan Jiang, Chenyuan Wu, Haoqiang Zhang, Xin Luo, Yueze Wang, Defu Lian, Bo Zhang, Jiajun Zhang, Zheng Liu
arXiv:2512. 03042v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce PPTArena, a benchmark for PowerPoint editing that evaluates how agents modify real slides from natural-language instructions.
By Michael Ofengenden, Yunze Man, Ziqi Pang, Liang-Yan Gui, Yu-Xiong Wang
SLIDEFORGE is an LLM‑driven agent designed for controllable editing of slide decks while preserving layout, style, component structure, and native editability. It constructs a Deck State Graph that links visual decomposition, PowerPoint object structure, and perceptual organization, enabling theme‑preserving reconstruction through slide‑native operations and rendered‑state verification. The authors also propose a comprehensive evaluation framework measuring component recovery, preservation, restyling consistency, visual quality, and native editability, and demonstrate that SLIDEFORGE outperforms direct prompting, screenshot‑based agents, and generic code‑agent baselines.
SLIDEFORGE is a new AI agent designed for controllable editing of presentation slides. It constructs a Deck State Graph that links visual decomposition, native PowerPoint object structure, and perceptual organization, enabling theme‑preserving reconstruction through slide‑native operations and rendered‑state verification. The authors also propose an evaluation framework that jointly measures component recovery, preservation, restyling consistency, visual quality, and native editability, and demonstrate that SLIDEFORGE outperforms existing prompting, screenshot‑based, and generic code‑agent baselines.
By Haozhen Zheng, Fulin Wang, Tianhu Xiong, Yingjie Yu, Shengyi Qian, Hanchao Yu, Alex Schwing, Klara Nahrstedt, Mingyuan Wu
arXiv:2606. 19256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatically generating slide decks from source documents is an important application of large language models (LLMs).
By Haodong Chen, Xuanhe Zhou, Wei Zhou, Xinyue Shao, Yanbing Zhu, Bo Wang, Jiawei Hong, Anya Jia, Fan Wu
SlideGen is a collaborative vision‑language multi‑agent framework designed to generate scientific presentation slides from research papers. It assigns specialized agents to outline the presentation structure, align figures and tables with key claims, generate speaker notes, and compose editable PPTX slides using a diverse layout library. The system introduces a geometry‑aware density metric to evaluate visual clutter and demonstrates significant improvements in layout balance, content coverage, and text coherence over existing baselines on a 200‑paper benchmark.
By Xin Liang, Zhilin Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Haoran Su, Yiwei Xu, Siqi Sun, Chenyu You
arXiv:2606. 31154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Creating and editing slides is a rich, multimodal activity that is ubiquitous in professional and educational settings, making it an ideal testbed for real-world computer-use agents.
By Apurva Gandhi, Vishwas Suryanarayanan, Raja Hasnain Anwar, Firoz Shaik, Shubhang Desai, Thong Q. Nguyen, Muhammad Taqi Raza, Vishal Chowdhary, Graham Neubig
We introduce VGA-BenchV2, an extended human-aligned benchmark and optimization framework for jointly evaluating and improving video generation quality and aesthetic value. Built upon VGA-Bench, VGA-Be...
VGA‑BenchV2 is an expanded, human‑aligned benchmark and optimization framework that jointly evaluates video generation quality and aesthetic value. It builds on the original VGA‑Bench taxonomy, adding 52 sub‑dimensions and 1,016 curated prompts to generate over 60,000 videos from 12 mainstream models. The benchmark significantly enlarges human supervision with 36,000 task‑level annotations and introduces a hybrid evaluator (VAQA‑Net, VTag‑Net, VGQA‑Net) that aligns well with human judgments and can be used as a reward model for reinforcement‑learning fine‑tuning.
By Longteng Jiang, DanDan Zheng, Qianqian Qiao, Heng Huang, Huaye Wang, Yihang Bo, Bao Peng, Jingdong Chen, Jun Zhou, Xin Jin
arXiv:2608. 09666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in visual generative models have enabled high-quality image and video generation, but evaluating these models often demands sampling hundreds or thousands of images or videos, which is computationally expensive.
By Shulin Tian, Ziqi Huang, Fan Zhang, Hongyuan Zhu, Yu Qiao, Ziwei Liu
PPTBench is a new benchmark that tests coding agents’ ability to reconstruct scientific flow diagrams from arXiv papers into editable PowerPoint slides. The dataset contains 500 tasks, each requiring agents to produce a single PPTX page with native, editable objects, and a four‑stage Agentic Judge evaluates validity, semantic correctness, rendering quality, and fine‑grained visual quality. Across 31 model configurations, the best score is 67.80, with a median of 19.47, showing that while agents can generate valid PPTX files, they still struggle with semantic and visual accuracy, especially text details.
By Xiaoqiu Wang, Yizhe Chi, Wenyi Li, Deyao Hong, Zhihan Shan, Mingju Gao, Kaisen Yang, Youjie Zheng, Calvin Xiao, Qinhuai Na
UReason is a benchmark that evaluates how well unified multimodal models (UMMs) align textual reasoning with image generation. It contains 2,000 human‑curated instances across five reasoning‑intensive tasks—Code, Arithmetic, Spatial, Attribute, and Text—and compares direct generation, reasoning‑guided generation, and decontextualized generation. The study finds that while reasoning‑guided generation improves over direct generation, decontextualized generation consistently outperforms it, indicating that the visual semantics in textual reasoning are not reliably reflected in the generated images.
By Cheng Yang, Chufan Shi, Bo Shui, Yaokang Wu, Muzi Tao, Huijuan Wang, Ivan Yee Lee, Yong Liu, Xuezhe Ma, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick