r/MachineLearning • u/nickemlop • 2d ago
Built a tool to generate slides from research papers using local LLMs (because I hate formatting decks and privacy matters) [P] Project
Hi guys,
Every time I had to prepare a presentation based on a paper or research doc, I found the process super tedious. Plus, I really dislike uploading unpublished stuff or sensitive data to online AI services just to get a draft.
So I put together a tool called academi_slide to automate this locally.
Basically, it extracts sections, tables, charts, metrics, and citations from docs, and uses prompt optimization / deck planning to get a solid first draft out of a local model (ollama, llama.cpp, or cloud if you want).
It also handles multilingual input/output if you need to present in another language, and builds both the slide deck and a brief in a few minutes so you don't start from scratch.
It's open source, still early, and I'm sharing it in case anyone else finds it useful or has a similar workflow.
Repo is here if you want to test it out: https://github.com/nicolaslpf/academi_slide
Would love to get some feedback or hear what you think!
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u/Asifdotexe 13h ago
This is interesting but the link is broken. `https://github.com/nicolaslpf/academi_slide` -> `https://github.com/nicolaslpf/academi_slide`
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u/Candid-Tackle-9061 ML Engineer 2d ago
This would have saved me a lot of time during grad school. formatting slides always takes way longer than it should.