arXiv AI

SlideLab: Audience-Centered Scientific Slide Generation and Evaluation

SlideLab is a training‑free, multi‑agent framework that generates scientific presentations directly from research papers. It first plans a coherent narrative, then iteratively builds and refines a shared slide deck using agents for content planning, visual generation, layout refinement, and grounding verification. In a blind human preference study, SlideLab outperformed both open‑source and commercial systems on 77% of papers while using about four times fewer inference tokens than the strongest open‑source baseline. The authors also introduce ConfArena, an audience‑oriented evaluation framework that simulates a conference room and assesses presentations slide by slide, matching human system rankings and detecting issues such as falsified numbers, degraded figures, dropped slides, and shuffled slide order.

arXiv AI
Aug 25

SlideGen: Collaborative Multimodal Agents for Scientific Slide Generation

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 2

SLIDEFORGE: An LLM Agent for Controllable Editing of Slides as Structured Artifacts

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.

arXiv AI
Jul 1

PPT-Eval: A Benchmark for Computer-Use Agents on PowerPoint Tasks

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
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

SLIDEFORGE: An LLM Agent for Controllable Editing of Slides as Structured Artifacts

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 Computation and Language
Sep 1

PaperBanana-Interact: Scientific Diagram Refinement with Multi-Turn Human Feedback

PaperBanana-Interact is a multi-agent system designed to refine scientific diagrams through multi-turn human feedback. The authors introduce MTPaperBananaBench, a benchmark with 292 images and 3,518 user requirements, and a user simulator that generates natural language feedback at each turn. Experiments show that PaperBanana-Interact consistently improves diagram quality, outperforming baseline systems by 11.9–18.6 points and reducing forgetting by 3.7–6.2 points.

By Xueqing Wu, Ashwin Balasubramanian, Bingxuan Li, Dawei Zhu, Kai-Wei Chang, Yale Song, Yiwen Song, Rui Meng, Tomas Pfister, Nanyun Peng
arXiv AI
Aug 5

AgentPanel: Toward a New Paradigm for Human--AI Collaboration in Exploring Scientific Questions

arXiv:2608. 03283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identifying promising scientific ideas remains an important challenge in research practice.

By Zhiyao Cui, Qianyi Wang, Haoyang Yan, Yiqun Zhang, Siyue Ren, Hangfan Zhang, Zelin Tan, Hao Li, Chunjiang Mu, Dexian Cai, Shao Zhang, Chen Zhang, Meng Li, Jianan Chai, Yuting Fan, Zichao Ye, Xiaolei Yang, Xinyao Lu, Yuyang Yu, Wenjie Lou, Xiaosong Wang, Fenghua Ling, Shiyang Feng, Mao Su, Qiaosheng Zhang, Bo Zhang, Yang Chen, Lei Bai, Shuyue Hu
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 11

Overview of the NLPCC 2026 Shared Task 11: Agent-Based Experiment Reproduction from Scientific Papers

The article introduces AgentActionBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate agent-based experiment reproduction across machine learning and AI4Science papers. It employs an MCP-based Action Recorder to capture agents’ behavior during reproduction and assesses the resulting traces against paper-specific rubrics. The benchmark includes 150 papers, with a human-annotated subset and model-assisted augmentation expanding it to over 10,000 rubric items, revealing that current systems face execution bottlenecks but that model-generated rubrics correlate strongly with human judgments.

By Hanhua Hong, Yizhi Li, Luu Gia Huy, Jian Yang, Ming Zhou, Chenghua Lin