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We propose the task of outline-conditioned story generation: given an outline as a set of phrases that describe key characters and events to appear in a story, the task is to generate a coherent narrative that is consistent with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Hannah Rashkin , Asli Celikyilmaz , Yejin Choi , Jianfeng Gao

Large language models optimized for instruction following and agentic tasks remain poorly aligned with the requirements of high-quality creative writing. Fiction frequently depends on behaviors that assistant-tuned models are explicitly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jan Zierstek , Matteo Batelic , Maya Medjad , Tim Schönenberger

Process Reward Models (PRMs) have emerged as a powerful tool for providing step-level feedback when evaluating the reasoning of Large Language Models (LLMs), which frequently produce chains of thought (CoTs) containing errors even when the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Raffaele Pisano , Roberto Navigli

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong promise for robotic task planning, particularly through the automatic generation of symbolic planning domains. However, prior work mainly treats generated domains as planning utilities. Such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jinbang Huang , Zhiyuan Li , Yuanzhao Hu , Zhanguang Zhang , Mark Coates , Xingyue Quan , Yingxue Zhang

Creating compelling captions for data visualizations has been a longstanding challenge. Visualization researchers are typically untrained in journalistic reporting and hence the captions that are placed below data visualizations tend to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Ashley Liew , Klaus Mueller

Large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as a powerful tool for a wide range of language generation tasks. Nevertheless, this progress has been slower in Arabic. In this work, we focus on the task of generating stories from LLMs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti , Fakhraddin Alwajih , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Narrative story generation is a challenging problem because it demands the generated sentences with tight semantic connections, which has not been well studied by most existing generative models. To address this problem, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Jingjing Xu , Xuancheng Ren , Yi Zhang , Qi Zeng , Xiaoyan Cai , Xu Sun

Storytelling aims to generate reasonable and vivid narratives based on an ordered image stream. The fidelity to the image story theme and the divergence of story plots attract readers to keep reading. Previous works iteratively improved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Chuanqi Zang , Jiji Tang , Rongsheng Zhang , Zeng Zhao , Tangjie Lv , Mingtao Pei , Wei Liang

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized a large variety of NLP tasks. An active debate is to what extent they can do reasoning and planning. Prior work has assessed the latter in the specific context of PDDL planning, based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Katharina Stein , Daniel Fišer , Jörg Hoffmann , Alexander Koller

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated immense potential across various tasks. However, research for exploring and improving the capabilities of LLMs in interpreting graph structures remains limited. To address this gap, we conduct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Jie He , Yijun Yang , Wanqiu Long , Deyi Xiong , Victor Gutierrez-Basulto , Jeff Z. Pan

Large language models (LLMs) enable system builders today to create competent NLP systems through prompting, where they only need to describe the task in natural language and provide a few examples. However, in other ways, LLMs are a step…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Vijay Viswanathan , Chenyang Zhao , Amanda Bertsch , Tongshuang Wu , Graham Neubig

This study introduces a transformative framework for medical education by integrating semi-structured data with Large Language Models (LLMs), primarily OpenAIs ChatGPT3.5, to automate the creation of medical simulation scenarios.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Scott Sumpter

With the remarkable advancements in image generation and open-form text generation, the creation of interleaved image-text content has become an increasingly intriguing field. Multimodal story generation, characterized by producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Shuai Yang , Yuying Ge , Yang Li , Yukang Chen , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Yingcong Chen

The generation of a long story consisting of several thousand words is a sub-task in the field of long text generation~(LTG). Previous research has addressed this challenge through outline-based generation, which employs a multi-stage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ge Shi , Kaiyu Huang , Guochen Feng

Open-ended text generation tasks, such as dialogue generation and story completion, require models to generate a coherent continuation given limited preceding context. The open-ended nature of these tasks brings new challenges to the neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Qintong Li , Piji Li , Wei Bi , Zhaochun Ren , Yuxuan Lai , Lingpeng Kong

Product review generation is an important task in recommender systems, which could provide explanation and persuasiveness for the recommendation. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs, e.g., ChatGPT) have shown superior text modeling and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Qiyao Peng , Hongtao Liu , Hongyan Xu , Qing Yang , Minglai Shao , Wenjun Wang

Systems for story generation are asked to produce plausible and enjoyable stories given an input context. This task is underspecified, as a vast number of diverse stories can originate from a single input. The large output space makes it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Nader Akoury , Shufan Wang , Josh Whiting , Stephen Hood , Nanyun Peng , Mohit Iyyer

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional abilities in reasoning for task planning. However, challenges remain under-explored for parallel schedules. This paper introduces a novel paradigm, plan-over-graph, in which the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Shiqi Zhang , Xinbei Ma , Zouying Cao , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Applications of narrative theories using large language models (LLMs) deliver promising use-cases in automatic story generation and understanding tasks. Our survey examines how natural language processing (NLP) research engages with fields…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 David Y. Liu , Aditya Joshi , Paul Dawson

The capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to plan remains a topic of debate. Some critics argue that strategies to boost LLMs' reasoning skills are ineffective in planning tasks, while others report strong outcomes merely from training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sukai Huang , Trevor Cohn , Nir Lipovetzky
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