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Prompting is used to guide or steer a language model in generating an appropriate response that is consistent with the desired outcome. Chaining is a strategy used to decompose complex tasks into smaller, manageable components. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Dietrich Trautmann

Role-playing games (RPGs) provide players with a rich, interactive world to explore. Dialogue serves as the primary means of communication between developers and players, manifesting in various forms such as guides, NPC interactions, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Navapat Nananukul , Wichayaporn Wongkamjan

Stories hold a reader's attention because they have causes, secrets, and consequences. Shadow-Loom is an experimental open-source framework that turns a narrative into a versioned graphical world model and lets two engines act on it: a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-07 David Wilmot

We investigate the challenge of task planning for multi-task embodied agents in open-world environments. Two main difficulties are identified: 1) executing plans in an open-world environment (e.g., Minecraft) necessitates accurate and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zihao Wang , Shaofei Cai , Guanzhou Chen , Anji Liu , Xiaojian Ma , Yitao Liang

Story generation is an important natural language processing task that aims to generate coherent stories automatically. While the use of neural networks has proven effective in improving story generation, how to learn to generate an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Gang Chen , Yang Liu , Huanbo Luan , Meng Zhang , Qun Liu , Maosong Sun

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

LLM-based Interactive Drama is a novel AI-based dialogue scenario, where the user (i.e. the player) plays the role of a character in the story, has conversations with characters played by LLM agents, and experiences an unfolding story. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Hongqiu Wu , Weiqi Wu , Tianyang Xu , Jiameng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great success as high-level planners for zero-shot game-playing agents. However, these agents are primarily evaluated on Minecraft, where long-term planning is relatively straightforward. In contrast,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Dominik Jeurissen , Diego Perez-Liebana , Jeremy Gow , Duygu Cakmak , James Kwan

Understanding how individual agents make strategic decisions within collectives is important for advancing fields as diverse as economics, neuroscience, and multi-agent systems. Two complementary approaches can be integrated to this end.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Jaime Ruiz-Serra , Patrick Sweeney , Michael S. Harré

Large language models can be used for collaborative storytelling. In this work we report on using GPT-3 \cite{brown2020language} to co-narrate stories. The AI system must track plot progression and character arcs while the human actors…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Boyd Branch , Piotr Mirowski , Kory W. Mathewson

This study investigates the use of large language models (LLMs) for story point estimation. Story points are unitless, project-specific effort estimates that help developers on the scrum team forecast which product backlog items they plan…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Pranam Prakash Shetty , Adarsh Balakrishnan , Mengqiao Xu , Xiaoyin Xi , Zhe Yu

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

Many recent prompting strategies for large language models (LLMs) query the model multiple times sequentially -- first to produce intermediate results and then the final answer. However, using these methods, both decoder and model are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Luca Beurer-Kellner , Mark Niklas Müller , Marc Fischer , Martin Vechev

Agentic frameworks powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) can be useful tools in scientific workflows by enabling human-AI co-creation. A key challenge is recommending the next steps during workflow creation without relying solely on LLMs,…

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 emergence of large language models (LLMs) has substantially influenced natural language processing, demonstrating exceptional results across various tasks. In this study, we employ ``Introspective Tips" to facilitate LLMs in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Liting Chen , Lu Wang , Hang Dong , Yali Du , Jie Yan , Fangkai Yang , Shuang Li , Pu Zhao , Si Qin , Saravan Rajmohan , Qingwei Lin , Dongmei Zhang

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

State-of-the-art neural language models can now be used to solve ad-hoc language tasks through zero-shot prompting without the need for supervised training. This approach has gained popularity in recent years, and researchers have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Hendrik Strobelt , Albert Webson , Victor Sanh , Benjamin Hoover , Johanna Beyer , Hanspeter Pfister , Alexander M. Rush

Large Language Models (LLMs) hold great potential for web-based interactive applications, including browser games, online education, and digital storytelling platforms. However, LLM-based conversational agents suffer from spatiotemporal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Geonwoo Bang , DongMyung Kim , Hayoung Oh

World models improve a learning agent's ability to efficiently operate in interactive and situated environments. This work focuses on the task of building world models of text-based game environments. Text-based games, or interactive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Mark O. Riedl