Paper Slides

# Paper Slides: From Paper to Conference Talk

Generate conference presentation slides from: **$ARGUMENTS**

## Context

This skill runs **after** Workflow 3 (`/paper-writing`). It takes a compiled paper and generates a presentation slide deck for conference oral talks, spotlight presentations, or poster lightning talks.

Unlike posters (single page, visual-first), slides tell a **temporal story**: each slide builds on the previous one, with progressive revelation of the research narrative. A good talk makes the audience understand *why this matters* before showing *what was done*.

## Constants

- **VENUE = `NeurIPS`** — Target venue, determines color scheme. Supported: `NeurIPS`, `ICML`, `ICLR`, `AAAI`, `ACL`, `EMNLP`, `CVPR`, `ECCV`, `GENERIC`. Override via argument.
- **TALK_TYPE = `spotlight`** — Talk format. Options: `oral` (15-20 min), `spotlight` (5-8 min), `poster-talk` (3-5 min), `invited` (30-45 min). Determines slide count and content depth.
- **TALK_MINUTES = 15** — Talk duration in minutes. Auto-adjusts slide count (~1 slide/minute for oral, ~1.5 slides/minute for spotlight). Override explicitly if needed.
- **ASPECT_RATIO = `16:9`** — Slide aspect ratio. Options: `16:9` (default, modern projectors), `4:3` (legacy).
- **SPEAKER_NOTES = true** — Generate `\note{}` blocks in beamer and corresponding PPTX notes. Set `false` for clean slides without notes.
- **PAPER_DIR = `paper/`** — Directory containing the compiled paper.
- **OUTPUT_DIR = `slides/`** — Output directory for all slide files.
- **REVIEWER_MODEL = `gpt-5.5`** — Model used via Codex MCP for slide review.
- **AUTO_PROCEED = false** — At each checkpoint, **always wait for explicit user confirmation**.
- **COMPILER = `latexmk`** — LaTeX build tool.
- **ENGINE = `pdflatex`** — LaTeX engine. Use `xelatex` for CJK text.

> 💡 Override: `/paper-slides "paper/" — talk_type: oral, venue: ICML, minutes: 20, aspect: 4:3`

## Talk Type → Slide Count

| Talk Type | Duration | Slides | Content Depth |
|-----------|----------|:------:|---------------|
| `poster-talk` | 3-5 min | 5-8 | Problem + 1 method slide + 1 result + conclusion |
| `spotlight` | 5-8 min | 8-12 | Problem + 2 method + 2 results + conclusion |
| `oral` | 15-20 min | 15-22 | Full story with motivation, method detail, experiments, analysis |
| `invited` | 30-45 min | 25-40 | Comprehensive: background, related work, deep method, extensive results, discussion |

## Venue Color Schemes

Same as `/paper-poster-html`:

| Venue | Primary | Accent | Background | Text |
|-------|---------|--------|------------|------|
| NeurIPS | `#8B5CF6` | `#2563EB` | `#FFFFFF` | `#1E1E1E` |
| ICML | `#DC2626` | `#1D4ED8` | `#FFFFFF` | `#1E1E1E` |
| ICLR | `#059669` | `#0284C7` | `#FFFFFF` | `#1E1E1E` |
| CVPR | `#2563EB` | `#7C3AED` | `#FFFFFF` | `#1E1E1E` |
| GENERIC | `#334155` | `#2563EB` | `#FFFFFF` | `#1E1E1E` |

## State Persistence (Compact Recovery)

Persist state to `slides/SLIDES_STATE.json` after each phase: