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Recent progress in large-scale language models has enabled breakthroughs in previously intractable computer programming tasks. Prior work in meta-learning and neural architecture search has led to substantial successes across various task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Alex Sheng , Shankar Padmanabhan

Building Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems that generalize across different tasks remains a challenging problem. Data-driven approaches often struggle to transfer effectively to unseen tasks. While recent schema-based TOD frameworks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Radin Shayanfar , Chu Fei Luo , Rohan Bhambhoria , Samuel Dahan , Xiaodan Zhu

We introduce KodCode, a synthetic dataset that addresses the persistent challenge of acquiring high-quality, verifiable training data across diverse difficulties and domains for training Large Language Models for coding. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhangchen Xu , Yang Liu , Yueqin Yin , Mingyuan Zhou , Radha Poovendran

Multimodal story customization aims to generate coherent story flows conditioned on textual descriptions, reference identity images, and shot types. While recent progress in story generation has shown promising results, most approaches rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wei-Hua Li , Cheng Sun , Chu-Song Chen

Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance on code generation, but the mechanisms by which Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting helps remain unclear. We present a systematic empirical and information-theoretic study of CoT…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Naizhu Jin , Zhong Li , Guang Yang , Tian Zhang , Qingkai Zeng

Stories generated with neural language models have shown promise in grammatical and stylistic consistency. However, the generated stories are still lacking in common sense reasoning, e.g., they often contain sentences deprived of world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Huanru Henry Mao , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Julian McAuley , Garrison W. Cottrell

Narrative visualization is a powerful communicative tool that can take on various formats such as interactive articles, slideshows, and data videos. These formats each have their strengths and weaknesses, but existing authoring tools only…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Matthew Conlen , Jeffrey Heer

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

The Design2Code problem, which involves converting digital designs into functional source code, is a significant challenge in software development due to its complexity and time-consuming nature. Traditional approaches often struggle with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Tung D. Vu , Chung Hoang , Truong-Son Hy

In this paper, we explore the generation of one-liner jokes through multi-step reasoning. Our work involved reconstructing the process behind creating humorous one-liners and developing a working prototype for humor generation. We conducted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Alexey Tikhonov , Pavel Shtykovskiy

Evaluating creative text such as human-written stories using language models has always been a challenging task -- owing to the subjectivity of multi-annotator ratings. To mimic the thinking process of humans, chain of thought (CoT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Brihi Joshi , Sriram Venkatapathy , Mohit Bansal , Nanyun Peng , Haw-Shiuan Chang

Historical maps provide valuable information and knowledge about the past. However, as they often feature non-standard projections, hand-drawn styles, and artistic elements, it is challenging for non-experts to identify and interpret them.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ziyi Liu , Claudio Affolter , Sidi Wu , Yizi Chen , Lorenz Hurni

Generating high-quality stories spanning thousands of tokens requires competency across a variety of skills, from tracking plot and character arcs to keeping a consistent and engaging style. Due to the difficulty of sourcing labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Alexander Gurung , Mirella Lapata

The scope of this survey paper is to explore the challenges in automatic story generation. We hope to contribute in the following ways: 1. Explore how previous research in story generation addressed those challenges. 2. Discuss future…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Amal Alabdulkarim , Siyan Li , Xiangyu Peng

As an integral part of source code files, code comments help improve program readability and comprehension. However, developers sometimes do not comment on their program code adequately due to the incurred extra efforts, lack of relevant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Xiaotao Song , Hailong Sun , Xu Wang , Jiafei Yan

Predicting the runtime complexity of a programming code is an arduous task. In fact, even for humans, it requires a subtle analysis and comprehensive knowledge of algorithms to predict time complexity with high fidelity, given any code. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jagriti Sikka , Kushal Satya , Yaman Kumar , Shagun Uppal , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Roger Zimmermann

People capture photos and videos to relive and share memories of personal significance. Recently, media montages (stories) have become a popular mode of sharing these memories due to their intuitive and powerful storytelling capabilities.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Satwik Kottur , Seungwhan Moon , Aram H. Markosyan , Hardik Shah , Babak Damavandi , Alborz Geramifard

Data wrangling, the process of preparing raw data for further analysis in computational notebooks, is a crucial yet time-consuming step in data science. Code generation has the potential to automate the data wrangling process to reduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Junjie Huang , Daya Guo , Chenglong Wang , Jiazhen Gu , Shuai Lu , Jeevana Priya Inala , Cong Yan , Jianfeng Gao , Nan Duan , Michael R. Lyu

Text-to-image generation models have grown in popularity due to their ability to produce high-quality images from a text prompt. One use for this technology is to enable the creation of more accessible art creation software. In this paper,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Atieh Taheri , Mohammad Izadi , Gururaj Shriram , Negar Rostamzadeh , Shaun Kane

Design mockups are essential instruments for visualizing and testing design ideas. However, the process of generating mockups can be time-consuming and challenging for designers. In this article, we present and evaluate two different…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Tommaso Calò , Luigi De Russis