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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

A human author can write any length of story without losing coherence. Also, they always bring the story to a proper ending, an ability that current language models lack. In this work, we present the LongStory for coherent, complete, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kyeongman Park , Nakyeong Yang , Kyomin Jung

Text-to-image generation models can create high-quality images from input prompts. However, they struggle to support the consistent generation of identity-preserving requirements for storytelling. Existing approaches to this problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Tao Liu , Kai Wang , Senmao Li , Joost van de Weijer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Jian Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng

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

We present Story2Board, a training-free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 David Dinkevich , Matan Levy , Omri Avrahami , Dvir Samuel , Dani Lischinski

Despite its benefits for children's skill development and parent-child bonding, many parents do not often engage in interactive storytelling by having story-related dialogues with their child due to limited availability or challenges in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Zheng Zhang , Ying Xu , Yanhao Wang , Bingsheng Yao , Daniel Ritchie , Tongshuang Wu , Mo Yu , Dakuo Wang , Toby Jia-Jun Li

Storyboard synthesis plays a crucial role in visual storytelling, aiming to generate coherent shot sequences that visually narrate cinematic events with consistent characters, scenes, and transitions. However, existing approaches are mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junjia Huang , Binbin Yang , Pengxiang Yan , Jiyang Liu , Bin Xia , Zhao Wang , Yitong Wang , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

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

Recent advances in text-to-audio (TTA) generation excel at synthesizing short audio clips but struggle with long-form narrative audio, which requires temporal coherence and compositional reasoning. To address this gap, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Yuxin Guo , Teng Wang , Yuying Ge , Shijie Ma , Yixiao Ge , Wei Zou , Ying Shan

While recent advancements in generative models have achieved remarkable visual fidelity in video synthesis, creating coherent multi-shot narratives remains a significant challenge. To address this, keyframe-based approaches have emerged as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Peixuan Zhang , Zijian Jia , Kaiqi Liu , Shuchen Weng , Si Li , Boxin Shi

Data-driven storytelling is a powerful method for conveying insights by combining narrative techniques with visualizations and text. These stories integrate visual aids, such as highlighted bars and lines in charts, along with textual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Mohammed Saidul Islam , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Md Rizwan Parvez , Enamul Hoque , Shafiq Joty

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as autonomous agents, tackling tasks from robotics to web navigation. Their performance depends on the underlying base agent. Existing methods, however, struggle with long-context reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Nikolai Rozanov , Marek Rei

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

Story visualization has become a popular task where visual scenes are generated to depict a narrative across multiple panels. A central challenge in this setting is maintaining visual consistency, particularly in how characters and objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kiymet Akdemir , Tahira Kazimi , Pinar Yanardag

Custom Storyboard Generation (CSG) aims to produce high-quality, multi-character consistent storytelling. Current approaches based on static diffusion models, whether used in a one-shot manner or within multi-agent frameworks, face three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Hailong Yan , Shice Liu , Tao Wang , Xiangtao Zhang , Yijie Zhong , Jinwei Chen , Le Zhang , Bo Li

In this paper, we present Drama Llama, an LLM-powered storylets framework that supports the authoring of responsive, open-ended interactive stories. DL combines the structural benefits of storylet-based systems with the generative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Yuqian Sun , Phoebe J. Wang , John Joon Young Chung , Melissa Roemmele , Taewook Kim , Max Kreminski

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

Generating scientific manuscripts requires maintaining alignment between narrative reasoning, experimental evidence, and visual artifacts across the document lifecycle. Existing language-model generation pipelines rely on unconstrained text…

As AI-generated fiction becomes increasingly prevalent, questions of authorship and originality are becoming central to how written work is evaluated. While most existing work in this space focuses on identifying surface-level signatures of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jenna Russell , Rishanth Rajendhran , Chau Minh Pham , Mohit Iyyer , John Wieting

We present Infinite-Story, a training-free framework for consistent text-to-image (T2I) generation tailored for multi-prompt storytelling scenarios. Built upon a scale-wise autoregressive model, our method addresses two key challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jihun Park , Kyoungmin Lee , Jongmin Gim , Hyeonseo Jo , Minseok Oh , Wonhyeok Choi , Kyumin Hwang , Jaeyeul Kim , Minwoo Choi , Sunghoon Im