EditPPT: Faithful Long-Deck Slide Editing via Structured Tool-Using Multi-Agent with Dual-Modal Validators

arXiv:2608.20381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automating slide editing requires simultaneously satisfying modification accuracy, preservation fidelity, and robustness to deck length. Existing LLM-based systems often fail on real-world presentation files because they rely on idealized intermediate representations or open-ended code generation, which are prone to cascading errors in long decks. We introduce EditPPT, a multi-agent framework that reformulates slide editing as a constrained tool-selection problem. By executing localized shape-level operations through the native PowerPoint COM interface, EditPPT narrows the LLM action space while preserving the application-resolved structure of user-authored decks. By separating validation across modalities, our dual-modal validation provides more robust assessment of both instruction fidelity and visual quality. We also present DeckEdit-Bench, a benchmark with 28 human-authored decks, 582 slides, and 183 editing prompts across short, medium, and long deck tiers. Experiments show that EditPPT achieves a 99.5% execution rate, 88.7% slide-targeting F1, 82.5% instruction following, and 91.5% object preservation overall, while maintaining strong performance on long decks. Our code and benchmark are available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/EditPPT-0E27/

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Source: arXiv cs.AI | 2026-08-24