arXiv:2608. 08160v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) is revolutionizing AI for Games by enabling open-ended and fluid interactive storytelling.
By Yingpeng Ma, Jianhao Yan, Bei Shi, Ka Hou Kam, Runnan Wang, Xuebo Liu, Yulong Chen, Yue Zhang, Derek F. Wong
arXiv:2608. 12336v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A story premise is the creative spark from which a full narrative can grow.
By Yang Yang, Zining Zhong, Qian Cao, Jindong Li, Boyun Xu, Kaishen Yuan, Menglin Yang, Yutao Yue
arXiv:2606. 17391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-form serialized audio drama, with arcs that run for 200 to 800 episodes, is a major creative medium and a setting where frontier large language models (LLMs) fail.
By Logan Mann, Abdur Rahman, Mohammad Saifullah, Taaha Kazi, Vasu Sharma
arXiv:2603. 16410v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Creative plot generation presents a fundamental challenge for language models: transforming a concise premise into a coherent narrative that sustains global coherence, character development, pacing, tone consistency, and emotional progression.
By Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla, Jyotin Goel, Madhav Kataria, Niranjan Pedanekar
arXiv:2608. 07460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While post-training improves the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), it generally lowers their output diversity and creativity, negatively impacting tasks that explicitly require creativity (e.
By Ananya Sahu, Mohit Bansal, Elias Stengel-Eskin
arXiv:2606. 13348v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computational creativity in Interactive Fiction faces a fundamental tension: Large Language Models (LLM) may produce creative narratives but struggle with world coherence, while symbolic systems ensure consistency but lack creative flexibility.
By Micaela Vaucher, Santiago Silveira, Santiago G\'ongora, Luis Chiruzzo
arXiv:2607. 19038v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Translating novels into films poses a grand challenge for generative artificial intelligence, requiring conversion of abstract literary prose into long-form, multi-scene visual narratives.
By Jialong Zuo, Haotong Zuo, Shiwei Zhang, Xiang Wang, Chen Li, Nong Sang, Changxin Gao, Xiang Bai
arXiv:2602. 15851v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Applications of narrative theories using large language models (LLMs) deliver promising methods in automatic story generation and understanding tasks.
By David Y. Liu, Aditya Joshi, Paul Dawson
arXiv:2606. 05553v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Role-playing language agents (RPLAs) should play characters whose values and behavior evolve as the story progresses, not maintain a fixed persona.
By Woojung Song, Nalim Kim, Sangjun Song, Chaewon Heo, Jongwon Lim, Yohan Jo
arXiv:2606. 17350v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled the generation of high-quality prose, yet the question of whether these models are capable of generating diverse outputs remains contested.
By Thennal DK, Hans Ole Hatzel
arXiv:2607. 00918v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive creative fiction generation, they struggle to maintain narrative consistency and coherent plot lines in long-form stories.
By Aayush Aluru, Chloe Ho, Muhammad Hammouri, Kerry Luo, Myra Malik, Ryan Lagasse, Arjun Bahuguna, Vasu Sharma
arXiv:2605. 17064v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models are optimized for instruction following and agentic tasks remain poorly aligned with the requirements of high-quality creative writing.
By Jan Zierstek, Matteo Batelic, Maya Medjad, Tim Sch\"onenberger