Design First, Code Later: Aesthetically Pleasing Template-Free Slides Generation (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to producing presentation slides rely on fixed templates or executable code . Existing methods rely only on predefined templates and emit executable codes . |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchical slides generation workflow DeepSlides that organizes slide design tasks without any predefined template or style. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline methods on evaluated metrics and achieves superior performance in human preference evaluations. |
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