# DECKBench: Benchmarking Multi-Agent Frameworks for Academic Slide Generation and Editing

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13318 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.13318/

## Key facts

- Cited by 11 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 24 of its 38 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 10 Feb 2026.

## Builds on (most cited first, 24 of 24)

- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [τ2-Bench: Evaluating Conversational Agents in a Dual-Control Environment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.07982/) (2025)
- [MinerU: An Open-Source Solution for Precise Document Content Extraction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.18839/) (2024)
- [MinerU2.5: A Decoupled Vision-Language Model for Efficient High-Resolution Document Parsing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.22186/) (2025)
- [PPTAgent: Generating and Evaluating Presentations Beyond Text-to-Slides](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.03936/) (2025)
- [DOC2PPT: Automatic Presentation Slides Generation from Scientific Documents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.11796/) (2021)
- [AutoPresent: Designing Structured Visuals from Scratch](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.00912/) (2025)
- [Paper2Poster: Towards Multimodal Poster Automation from Scientific Papers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.21497/) (2025)
- [D2S: Document-to-Slide Generation Via Query-Based Text Summarization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.03664/) (2021)
- [PPTC Benchmark: Evaluating Large Language Models for PowerPoint Task Completion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.01767/) (2023)
- [OpenDataLab: Empowering General Artificial Intelligence with Open Datasets](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.13773/) (2024)
- [SlideGen: Collaborative Multimodal Agents for Scientific Slide Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.04529/) (2025)
- [SlideCoder: Layout-aware RAG-enhanced Hierarchical Slide Generation from Design](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.07964/) (2025)
- [Paper2Video: Automatic Video Generation from Scientific Papers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.05096/) (2025)
- [PresentAgent: Multimodal Agent for Presentation Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.04036/) (2025)
- [Auto-Slides: An Interactive Multi-Agent System for Creating and Customizing Research Presentations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.11062/) (2025)
- [PreGenie: An Agentic Framework for High-quality Visual Presentation Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.21660/) (2025)
- [Presenting a Paper is an Art: Self-Improvement Aesthetic Agents for Academic Presentations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.05571/) (2025)
- [PPTC-R benchmark: Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Large Language Models for PowerPoint Task Completion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.03788/) (2024)
- [Human-Agent Collaborative Paper-to-Page Crafting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.19600/) (2025)
- [Paper2SysArch: Structure-Constrained System Architecture Generation from Scientific Papers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.18036/) (2025)
- [PresentCoach: Dual-Agent Presentation Coaching through Exemplars and Interactive Feedback](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.15253/) (2025)
- [VLM-SlideEval: Evaluating VLMs on Structured Comprehension and Perturbation Sensitivity in PPT](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.22045/) (2025)
- [Addressing Situated Teaching Needs: A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Slide Adaptation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.18840/) (2025)

## Built on by (most cited first, 11 of 11)

- [LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.15597/) (2026)
- [DrawAI: Agentic Benchmark and Workflow for Making Raster Images Editable](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.00548/) (2026)
- [EditPPT: Faithful Long-Deck Slide Editing via Structured Tool-Using Multi-Agent with Dual-Modal Validators](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.20381/) (2026)
- [Agentic Visual Generation: From Generative Models to Agentic Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.06758/) (2026)
- [X+Slides: Benchmarking Audience-Conditioned Slide Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.19256/) (2026)
- [Personalization as Inverse Planning: Learning Latent Design Intents for Agentic Slide Generation via Structural Denoising](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.00407/) (2026)
- [ReDeck: Step-Level Render-Grounded Refinement for Document-to-Slide Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.00194/) (2026)
- [ConvDeck: Conversational Paper-to-Slide Generation via Stage-Specific User Feedback](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.00226/) (2026)
- [SLIDEFORGE: An LLM Agent for Controllable Editing of Slides as Structured Artifacts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.03109/) (2026)
- [SlideLab: Audience-Centered Scientific Slide Generation and Evaluation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.30294/) (2026)
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## Abstract (arXiv)

Automatically generating and iteratively editing academic slide decks requires more than document summarization. It demands faithful content selection, coherent slide organization, layout-aware rendering, and robust multi-turn instruction following. However, existing benchmarks and evaluation protocols do not adequately measure these challenges. To address this gap, we introduce the Deck Edits and Compliance Kit Benchmark (DECKBench), an evaluation framework for multi-agent slide generation and editing. DECKBench is built on a curated dataset of paper to slide pairs augmented with realistic, simulated editing instructions. Our evaluation protocol systematically assesses slide-level and deck-level fidelity, coherence, layout quality, and multi-turn instruction following. We further implement a modular multi-agent baseline system that decomposes the slide generation and editing task into paper parsing and summarization, slide planning, HTML creation, and iterative editing. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed benchmark highlights strengths, exposes failure modes, and provides actionable insights for improving multi-agent slide generation and editing systems. Overall, this work establishes a standardized foundation for reproducible and comparable evaluation of academic presentation generation and editing. Code and data are publicly available at https://github.com/morgan-heisler/DeckBench .