arXiv Computation and Language

MUSE: A Theory-Harnessed Story Engine for Vibe Narrativizing

MUSE is a story‑generation engine that applies Robert McKee’s narrative theory to guide decisions about plot, character, and language throughout planning, drafting, and revision. It structures story knowledge into rule atoms, semantic consolidations, and mechanisms, and uses intermediate deliverables to preserve decisions across creative stages. Experiments show MUSE improves benchmark scores over zero‑shot generation and maintains low consistency errors across multiple models.

arXiv AI
Aug 19

SAGE: Self-Evolving Storyboard Skills via Attribution-Guided Rule Evolution

SAGE is a framework that automates storyboard creation by learning and evolving directing rules from expert demonstrations. It attributes each narrative group’s decisions to specific rules, refines those rules with localized feedback, and routes only relevant rules to each group during generation. In tests, SAGE matched professional directors on a rubric and reduced authoring time by over 83%.

By Maolin Ran, Xiaoyang Lu, Jiaqi Liu, Jian Wang, Weiwen Liu, Jianghao Lin, Yong Yu, Weinan Zhang
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 7

ConWriter: Transition-Constrained Stateful Long-Form Story Generation with Lightweight Neuro-Symbolic Consistency Control

ConWriter is a training‑free framework that generates long‑form stories scene by scene, using static requirements, dynamic memory, symbolic state reasoning, and uncertainty‑aware risk signals to enforce consistency. It checks each new scene against required narrative transitions and repairs local errors before they propagate. Evaluations on ConStory‑Bench show that ConWriter matches or outperforms direct generation and a recent baseline, improving narrative consistency across multiple models and story lengths.

By Jindong Li, Yang Yang, Zihao Liu, Yutao Yue, Menglin Yang
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Narrative Knowledge Weaver: Narrative-Centric Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Long-Form Text Understanding

arXiv:2606. 05724v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-form narrative QA requires reasoning over evolving story worlds rather than isolated passages: answers may depend on earlier goals, changing character states, social relations, causal triggers, temporal position, and later consequences.

By Qiuyu Tian, Fengyi Chen, Yiding Li, Youyong Kong, Fan Guo, Yuyao Li, Jinjing Shen, Zhijing Xie, Yiyun Luo, Xin Zhang, Yingce Xia, Zequn Liu