Narrative-Driven Paper-to-Slide Generation via ArcDeck

Tarik Can Ozden*1 Sachidanand VS*1 Furkan Horoz*1,2 Ozgur Kara1 Junho Kim1 James M. Rehg1
1 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign   2 Middle East Technical University  ·  * Equal contribution

Turn any paper into a presentation with a clear, compelling narrative. Choose the duration, pick the audience, and generate with your preferred LLM model.

Demo

How ArcDeck works (presentation generated by ArcDeck itself)

Paper in, slides out — in three steps.

Captures narrative

Parses your paper's rhetorical structure to capture how the argument flows — not just what it says.

Adapts to your needs

5-minute lightning talk or 20-minute deep dive. General audience, expert researchers or any other audience. You choose.

Works on any paper

Biology, chemistry, physics, social sciences — not limited to ML/AI. Zero domain-specific tuning needed.

Any LLM model, rendered your way

Choose your LLM model, and render to PPTX, LaTeX, or JS.

Rendering Pipeline
LLM Backbone

ArcDeck as Claude Skill

Use ArcDeck directly as a Claude Skill with a single command. Compared with native Claude workflows, ArcDeck delivers stronger narrative flow and richer paper-grounded slides by incorporating figures and tables directly from the source paper.

ArcDeck Skill
Claude Native

Customizable duration and audience

5-minute lightning talk or 20-minute deep dive. General public, expert researchers or any audience.

Duration
5 min
10 min
15 min
20 min
Audience
General Public
Researcher

Beyond ML/AI — any research field

Biology, chemistry, social sciences, and more — no domain-specific tuning needed.

Citation

@article{ozden2026arcdeck,
  title     = {Narrative-Driven Paper-to-Slide Generation via ArcDeck},
  author    = {Ozden, Tarik Can and VS, Sachidanand and Horoz, Furkan
               and Kara, Ozgur and Kim, Junho and Rehg, James M.},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.11969},
  year      = {2026}
}
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