Presenting a Paper is an Art: Self-Improvement Aesthetic Agents for Academic Presentations

Chengzhi Liu, Yuzhe YANG, Kaiwen Zhou, Zhen Zhang, Yue Fan, Yanan Xie, Peng Qi, Xin Eric Wang

Keywords: Presentation Generation, Self-improvement, AI for Academic Research, Human-Agent Interaction

TL;DR: We present EvoPresent, a self-improving multi-agent framework for generating high-quality academic presentations through narrative construction, aesthetic design, and virtual delivery.

Abstract: The promotion of academic papers has become an important means of enhancing research visibility. where the appeal of dissemination largely determines its effectiveness. However, existing automated methods struggle limited storytelling, insufficient aesthetic quality, and constrained self-adjustment, making it difficult to achieve efficient and engaging dissemination. At the heart of those challenges is a simple principle: there is no way to improve it when you cannot evaluate it right. To address this, we introduce EvoPresent, a self-improvement agent framework that unifies coherent narratives, aesthetic-aware designs, and realistic presentation delivery via virtual characters. Central to EvoPresent is PresAesth, a multi-task reinforcement learning (RL) aesthetic model that provides reliable aesthetic scoring, defect adjustment, and comparative feedback, enabling iterative self-improvement even under limited aesthetic training data. To systematically evaluate the methods, we introduce EvoPresent Benchmark, a comprehensive benchmark comprising: Presentation Generation Quality, built on 650 top-tier AI conference papers with multimodal resources (slides, videos and scripts) to assess both content and design; and Aesthetic Awareness, consisting of 2,000 slide pairs with varying aesthetic levels, supporting joint training and evaluation on scoring, defect adjustment, and comparison. Our findings highlight that (i) High-quality feedback is essential for agent self-improvement, while initial capability alone does not guarantee effective self-correction. (ii) Automated generation pipelines exhibit a trade-off between visual design and content construction. (iii) Multi-task RL training shows stronger generalization in aesthetic awareness tasks.

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Submission Number: 65