# UniPPTBench: A Unified Benchmark for Presentation Generation Across Diverse Input Settings

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17356 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.17356/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 30 of its 40 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 17 May 2026.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 30)

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## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [SlideLab: Audience-Centered Scientific Slide Generation and Evaluation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.30294/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Existing works typically focus on presentation generation under isolated input settings, whereas real-world use cases span diverse scenarios, including vague user prompts, long documents, multimodal materials, and multiple heterogeneous sources. Moreover, current evaluations are often insufficiently scenario-specific. They mainly rely on generic presentation-quality criteria, such as visual appeal, layout quality, and overall coherence, but fail to assess the core capabilities required by different input settings, including grounded compression, visual-text alignment, and cross-source synthesis. Consequently, the field lacks a unified benchmark and a scenario-aware evaluation framework for faithfully diagnosing presentation-generation systems across diverse real-world settings. We present UniPPTBench, a unified benchmark for presentation generation across four representative input settings: vague-prompt, long-document, multimodal-document, and multi-source generation. We further introduce UniPPTEval, a scenario-aware evaluation protocol that combines shared metrics for cross-setting comparison with scenario-specific metrics tailored to the core requirements of each setting. We also provide transparent reference baselines to support reproducible comparison. Experiments on UniPPTBench reveal substantial performance variation across settings and recurring failure modes in content grounding, multimodal integration, and cross-source synthesis. In particular, strong performance on generic presentation-quality metrics does not necessarily imply strong task fulfillment in grounded scenarios. Together, UniPPTBench and UniPPTEval provide a faithful and diagnostic foundation for evaluating presentation generation across diverse real-world scenarios. Code and data will be publicly available.
