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Individualized cognitive simulation (ICS) aims to build computational models that approximate the thought processes of specific individuals. While large language models (LLMs) convincingly mimic surface-level human behavior such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Tianyi Zhang , Xiaolin Zhou , Yunzhe Wang , Erik Cambria , David Traum , Rui Mao

A single image can convey a compelling story through logically connected visual clues, forming Chains-of-Reasoning (CoRs). We define these semantically rich images as Storytelling Images. By conveying multi-layered information that inspires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xiujie Song , Qi Jia , Shota Watanabe , Xiaoyi Pang , Ruijie Chen , Mengyue Wu , Kenny Q. Zhu

The demand for innovation in product design necessitates a prolific ideation phase. Conversational AI (CAI) systems that use Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) have been shown to be fruitful in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 B. Sankar , Dibakar Sen

This paper presents a novel conversational AI-enabled active ideation interface as a creative idea-generation tool to assist novice designers in mitigating the initial latency and ideation bottlenecks that are commonly observed. It is a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-16 B. Sankar , Dibakar Sen

We advocate for a strong integration of Computational Creativity (CC) with research in large language and vision models (LLVMs) to address a key limitation of these models, i.e., creative problem solving. We present preliminary experiments…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Lakshmi Nair , Evana Gizzi , Jivko Sinapov

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can rapidly produce large and diverse volumes of content. This lends to it a quality of creativity which can be empowering in the early stages of design. In seeking to understand how creative ways…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Gionnieve Lim , Simon T. Perrault

Automated story generation has been one of the long-standing challenges in NLP. Among all dimensions of stories, suspense is very common in human-written stories but relatively under-explored in AI-generated stories. While recent advances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Kaige Xie , Mark Riedl

Story composition is a challenging problem for machines and even for humans. We present a neural narrative generation system that interacts with humans to generate stories. Our system has different levels of human interaction, which enables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant , Haining Feng , Nanyun Peng

Existing Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems are weak AI systems and exhibit limited capabilities when language generation tasks demand higher levels of creativity, originality and brevity. Effective solutions or, at least evaluations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Parag Jain , Priyanka Agrawal , Abhijit Mishra , Mohak Sukhwani , Anirban Laha , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

Evaluating the creativity of large language models (LLMs) in story writing is difficult because LLM-generated stories could seemingly look creative but be very similar to some existing stories in their huge and proprietary training corpus.…

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, and Large Language Models (LLMs) in particular, are increasingly employed for creative tasks like scientific idea generation, constituting a form of generalization from training data unaddressed by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Samuel Schapiro , Sumuk Shashidhar , Alexi Gladstone , Jonah Black , Royce Moon , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Lav R. Varshney

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate potential in the field of scientific idea generation. However, the generated results often lack controllable academic context and traceable inspiration pathways. To bridge this gap, this paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Pengzhen Xie , Huizhi Liang

Generative AI can be used in multi-actor environments with purposes ranging from social science modeling to interactive narrative and AI evaluation. Supporting this diversity of use cases -- which we classify as Simulationist, Dramatist,…

Recent visual generative models enable story generation with consistent characters from text, but human-centric story generation faces additional challenges, such as maintaining detailed and diverse human face consistency and coordinating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Donghao Zhou , Jingyu Lin , Guibao Shen , Quande Liu , Jialin Gao , Lihao Liu , Lan Du , Cunjian Chen , Chi-Wing Fu , Xiaowei Hu , Pheng-Ann Heng

Characters are integral to long-form narratives, but are poorly understood by existing story analysis and generation systems. While prior work has simplified characters via graph-based methods and brief character descriptions, we aim to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Alexander Gurung , Mirella Lapata

Language-modeling--based approaches to story plot generation attempt to construct a plot by sampling from a language model (LM) to predict the next character, word, or sentence to add to the story. LM techniques lack the ability to receive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Pradyumna Tambwekar , Murtaza Dhuliawala , Lara J. Martin , Animesh Mehta , Brent Harrison , Mark O. Riedl

To enhance the quality of generated stories, recent story generation models have been investigating the utilization of higher-level attributes like plots or commonsense knowledge. The application of prompt-based learning with large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zhuohan Xie , Trevor Cohn , Jey Han Lau

Story generation has been a prominent application of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, understanding LLMs' ability to produce high-quality stories remains limited due to challenges in automatic evaluation methods and the high cost and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yi Wang , Max Kreminski

Automatically generating stories is a challenging problem that requires producing causally related and logical sequences of events about a topic. Previous approaches in this domain have focused largely on one-shot generation, where a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Faeze Brahman , Alexandru Petrusca , Snigdha Chaturvedi

Image description task has been invariably examined in a static manner with qualitative presumptions held to be universally applicable, regardless of the scope or target of the description. In practice, however, different viewers may pay…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Andrew Shin , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada