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With the advancement of natural language generation (NLG) technologies, creative story generation systems have gained increasing attention. However, current systems often fail to accurately translate user intent into satisfactory story…

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Storyline visualizations are an effective means to present the evolution of plots and reveal the scenic interactions among characters. However, the design of storyline visualizations is a difficult task as users need to balance between…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Tan Tang , Renzhong Li , Xinke Wu , Shuhan Liu , Johannes Knittel , Steffen Koch , Thomas Ertl , Lingyun Yu , Peiran Ren , Yingcai Wu

Storytelling tasks involving generating consistent subjects have gained significant attention recently. However, existing methods, whether training-free or training-based, continue to face challenges in maintaining subject consistency due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Ao Ma , Jiasong Feng , Ke Cao , Jing Wang , Yun Wang , Quanwei Zhang , Zhanjie Zhang

Automatic storytelling is challenging since it requires generating long, coherent natural language to describes a sensible sequence of events. Despite considerable efforts on automatic story generation in the past, prior work either is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Lili Yao , Nanyun Peng , Ralph Weischedel , Kevin Knight , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

As cutting-edge Text-to-Image (T2I) generation models already excel at producing remarkable single images, an even more challenging task, i.e., multi-turn interactive image generation begins to attract the attention of related research…

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Existing instruction-based image editing models perform well with simple, single-step instructions but degrade in realistic scenarios that involve multiple, lengthy, and interdependent directives. A main cause is the scarcity of training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhaoyuan Qiu , Ken Chen , Xiangwei Wang , Yu Xia , Sachith Seneviratne , Saman Halgamuge

We propose a new task, called Story Visualization. Given a multi-sentence paragraph, the story is visualized by generating a sequence of images, one for each sentence. In contrast to video generation, story visualization focuses less on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Yitong Li , Zhe Gan , Yelong Shen , Jingjing Liu , Yu Cheng , Yuexin Wu , Lawrence Carin , David Carlson , Jianfeng Gao

Transformer-based language model approaches to automated story generation currently provide state-of-the-art results. However, they still suffer from plot incoherence when generating narratives over time, and critically lack basic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Xiangyu Peng , Siyan Li , Sarah Wiegreffe , Mark Riedl

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly used to operate browsers, files, code and tools, making personal assistants a natural deployment target. Yet personal agents face a privacy-cost-capability tension: cloud models execute…

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We present a node-based storytelling system for multimodal content generation. The system represents stories as graphs of nodes that can be expanded, edited, and iteratively refined through direct user edits and natural-language prompts.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Alexander Htet Kyaw , Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam

Story rewriting aims to adapt existing narratives to diverse reader preferences while preserving plot consistency and narrative coherence. Unlike conventional work on style transfer, we argue that effective story rewriting demands…

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Visual data storytelling is gaining importance as a means of presenting data-driven information or analysis results, especially to the general public. This has resulted in design principles being proposed for data-driven storytelling, and…

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Recent advances in multi-agent systems have shown great potential for solving complex tasks. However, when multiple agents edit a shared codebase concurrently, their changes can silently conflict and inconsistent views lead to integration…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Mengyang Liu , Taozhi Chen , Zhenhua Xu , Xue Jiang , Yihong Dong

Story visualization aims to generate a series of realistic and coherent images based on a storyline. Current models adopt a frame-by-frame architecture by transforming the pre-trained text-to-image model into an auto-regressive manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ming Tao , Bing-Kun Bao , Hao Tang , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Reward design for reinforcement learning agents can be difficult in situations where one not only wants the agent to achieve some effect in the world but where one also cares about how that effect is achieved. For example, we might wish for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Xiangyu Peng , Christopher Cui , Wei Zhou , Renee Jia , Mark Riedl

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise as decision-makers in dynamic settings, but their stateless nature necessitates creating a natural language representation of history. We present a unifying framework for systematically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Lyle Goodyear , Rachel Guo , Ramesh Johari

Automated plot generation is the challenge of generating a sequence of events that will be perceived by readers as the plot of a coherent story. Traditional symbolic planners plan a story from a goal state and guarantee logical causal plot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Anbang Ye , Christopher Cui , Taiwei Shi , Mark O. Riedl

Effective code generation requires both model capability and a problem representation that carefully structures how models reason and plan. Existing approaches augment reasoning steps or inject specific structure into how models think, but…

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In this work, we propose a framework that creates a lively virtual dynamic scene with contextual motions of multiple humans. Generating multi-human contextual motion requires holistic reasoning over dynamic relationships among human-human…

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