English
Related papers

Related papers: Psychology-guided Controllable Story Generation

200 papers

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) fail to generate long-form narrative text because they do not consider global structure. As a result, the generated texts are often incohesive, repetitive, or lack content. Recent work in story generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Yiping Jin , Vishakha Kadam , Dittaya Wanvarie

While LLMs demonstrate remarkable fluency in narrative generation, existing methods struggle to maintain global narrative coherence, contextual logical consistency, and smooth character development, often producing monotonous scripts with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Hanwen Gu , Chao Guo , Junle Wang , Wenda Xie , Yisheng Lv

This study addresses the challenge that generative models struggle to balance flexibility, stability, and controllability in complex interactive scenarios. It proposes a controllable generation framework for dynamic interactive content…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Rui Liu

In this paper, we collect an anthology of 100 visual stories from authors who participated in our systematic creative process of improvised story-building based on image sequences. Following close reading and thematic analysis of our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Brett A. Halperin , Stephanie M. Lukin

In this paper, we leverage advances in neural networks towards forming a neural rendering for controllable image generation, and thereby bypassing the need for detailed modeling in conventional graphics pipeline. To this end, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Xuelin Chen , Daniel Cohen-Or , Baoquan Chen , Niloy J. Mitra

Recent neural generation systems have demonstrated the potential for procedurally generating game content, images, stories, and more. However, most neural generation algorithms are "uncontrolled" in the sense that the user has little say in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Zhiyu Lin , Rohan Agarwal , Mark Riedl

Story visualization has gained increasing attention in artificial intelligence. However, existing methods still struggle with maintaining a balance between character identity preservation and text-semantics alignment, largely due to a lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Jinlu Zhang , Jiji Tang , Rongsheng Zhang , Tangjie Lv , Xiaoshuai Sun

With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), Controllable Text Generation (CTG) has become a critical technology for enhancing system reliability and user experience. Addressing the limitations of traditional methods, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yan Zhuang , Yuan Sun

A storyboard is a sequence of images to illustrate a story containing multiple sentences, which has been a key process to create different story products. In this paper, we tackle a new multimedia task of automatic storyboard creation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Shizhe Chen , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Ruihua Song , Qin Jin , Pingping Lin , Xiaoyu Qi , Chunting Wang , Jin Zhou

Large multimodal models have enabled one-click storybook generation, where users provide a short description and receive a multi-page illustrated story. However, the underlying story state, such as characters, world settings, and page-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ayushman Sarkar , Zhenyu Yu , Wei Tang , Chu Chen , Kangning Cui , Mohd Yamani Idna Idris

Existing data-driven methods can well handle short text generation. However, when applied to the long-text generation scenarios such as story generation or advertising text generation in the commercial scenario, these methods may generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Xuming Lin , Shaobo Cui , Zhongzhou Zhao , Wei Zhou , Ji Zhang , Haiqing Chen

A pictorial chart is an effective medium for visual storytelling, seamlessly integrating visual elements with data charts. However, creating such images is challenging because the flexibility of visual elements often conflicts with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shishi Xiao , Tongyu Zhou , David Laidlaw , Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan

Neural network based approaches to automated story plot generation attempt to learn how to generate novel plots from a corpus of natural language plot summaries. Prior work has shown that a semantic abstraction of sentences called events…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Ethan Tien , Wesley Cheung , Zhaochen Luo , William Ma , Lara J. Martin , Mark O. Riedl

Visual storytelling aims to generate a narrative based on a sequence of images, necessitating both vision-language alignment and coherent story generation. Most existing solutions predominantly depend on paired image-text training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yuechen Wang , Wengang Zhou , Zhenbo Lu , Houqiang Li

Humans interpret complex visual stimuli using abstract concepts that facilitate decision-making tasks such as food selection and risk avoidance. Similarity judgment tasks are effective for exploring these concepts. However, methods for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-23 Chen Wei , Jiachen Zou , Dietmar Heinke , Quanying Liu

Generative language models (LMs) such as GPT-2/3 can be prompted to generate text with remarkable quality. While they are designed for text-prompted generation, it remains an open question how the generation process could be guided by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yixuan Su , Tian Lan , Yahui Liu , Fangyu Liu , Dani Yogatama , Yan Wang , Lingpeng Kong , Nigel Collier

Storytelling has always been vital for human nature. From ancient times, humans have used stories for several objectives including entertainment, advertisement, and education. Various analyses have been conducted by researchers and creators…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yusuke Mori , Hiroaki Yamane , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

The field of controllable image generation has seen significant advancements, with various architectures improving generation layout consistency with control signals. However, contemporary methods still face challenges in bridging the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Feng Han , Yang Jiao , Shaoxiang Chen , Junhao Xu , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Human emotions are essentially molded by lived experiences, from which we construct personalised meaning. The engagement in such meaning-making process has been practiced as an intervention in various psychotherapies to promote wellness.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Qian Wan , Xin Feng , Yining Bei , Zhiqi Gao , Zhicong Lu

Abductive reasoning in knowledge graphs aims to generate plausible logical hypotheses from observed entities, with broad applications in areas such as clinical diagnosis and scientific discovery. However, due to a lack of controllability, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yisen Gao , Jiaxin Bai , Tianshi Zheng , Qingyun Sun , Ziwei Zhang , Xingcheng Fu , Jianxin Li , Yangqiu Song