Design First, Code Later: Aesthetically Pleasing Template-Free Slides Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26451v1
• Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:50:37 GMT
• Title: Design First, Code Later: Aesthetically Pleasing Template-Free Slides Generation
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a hierarchical slides generation workflow, DeepSlides, that organizes slide design tasks without any predefined template or style.<n> Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed framework outperforms baseline methods on evaluated metrics and achieves superior performance in human preference evaluations.
• Score: 37.32710542829869
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Producing presentation slides automatically entails coordinating narrative structure with page-level graphic design under strict spatial constraints. For such structured multimodal tasks, a well-organized design process is essential to ensure the final quality of slides. Existing approaches rely on fixed templates or directly emit executable code, thereby both limiting the creative layout-design capabilities of LLMs and bypassing the essential slide-page design step. To address these limitations, this paper (1) proposes a hierarchical slides generation workflow, DeepSlides, that systematically organizes slide design tasks without any predefined template or style, decoupling slide-page design from implementation; (2) introduces SlideDesign, a dataset tailored specifically for slides generation tasks; and (3) presents a multi-agent reinforcement learning training paradigm and trains a couple of models, SlideQwens, for slide design and implementation. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed framework outperforms baseline methods on evaluated metrics and achieves superior performance in human preference evaluations. The dataset and code are available at https://github.com/sxswz213/DeepSlides.

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