Alex Schwing
Author directory2026
SlideForge: Controllable Editing of Slides as Structured Artifacts
Haozhen Zheng | Fulin Wang | Tianhu Xiong | YingJie Yu | Shengyi Qian | Hanchao Yu | Alex Schwing | Klara Nahrstedt | Mingyuan Wu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Haozhen Zheng | Fulin Wang | Tianhu Xiong | YingJie Yu | Shengyi Qian | Hanchao Yu | Alex Schwing | Klara Nahrstedt | Mingyuan Wu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Current AI agents compellingly describe slides. However, AI-assisted slide editing requires more than understanding: the output must retain layout, style, component structure, and native editability. Towards, AI-assisted slide editing, existing agents operate on screenshots or weak document representations and often fragment coherent visual units, rasterize editable content, or break layout. In contrast, for controllable slide editing we introduce an agentic framework, SlideForge, which builds a Deck State Graph, an executable slide state that links visual decomposition, native PPTX object structure, and perceptual organization. By recovering human-referable components while retaining fine-grained editable structure, SlideForge supports theme-preserving reconstruction through slide-native operations and rendered-state verification. We further introduce an evaluation paradigm for controllable slide transformation that jointly measures component recovery, preservation, restyling consistency, visual quality, and native editability. Experiments show that SlideForge outperforms direct prompting, screenshot-based agents, and generic code-agent baselines across these dimensions.
2022
CoVA: Context-aware Visual Attention for Webpage Information Extraction
Anurendra Kumar | Keval Morabia | William Wang | Kevin Chang | Alex Schwing
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP (ECNLP 5)
Anurendra Kumar | Keval Morabia | William Wang | Kevin Chang | Alex Schwing
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP (ECNLP 5)
Webpage information extraction (WIE) is an important step to create knowledge bases. For this, classical WIE methods leverage the Document Object Model (DOM) tree of a website. However, use of the DOM tree poses significant challenges as context and appearance are encoded in an abstract manner. To address this challenge we propose to reformulate WIE as a context-aware Webpage Object Detection task. Specifically, we develop a Context-aware Visual Attention-based (CoVA) detection pipeline which combines appearance features with syntactical structure from the DOM tree. To study the approach we collect a new large-scale datase of e-commerce websites for which we manually annotate every web element with four labels: product price, product title, product image and others. On this dataset we show that the proposed CoVA approach is a new challenging baseline which improves upon prior state-of-the-art methods.