The paper introduces AdvRole, an adversarial closed‑loop curriculum for training role‑playing agents with large language models. It alternates between an Actor that learns to role‑play and a Rewriter that edits character profiles and dialogue contexts into hard scenarios, using a performance‑gap reward to target the Actor’s weaknesses. Experiments on English, Chinese, and a new multilingual benchmark demonstrate that AdvRole consistently outperforms baseline methods.
By Zheng Zhang, Liu Liu, Qi Chai, Deheng Ye, Peilin Zhao, Mao Zheng, Hao Wang
Short-drama generation has grown into a large, industrialized pipeline, and as it scales from isolated shots to the episode level, visual continuity has become a critical bottleneck. Current agent fra...
arXiv:2608.22725v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Short-drama generation has grown into a large, industrialized pipeline, and as it scales from isolated shots to the episode level, visual continuity ha...
By Jiaqi Liu, Maolin Ran, Xiaoyang Lu, Jian Wang, Weiwen Liu, Jianghao Lin, Yong Yu, Weinan Zhang
The paper presents a detailed examination of narrative elements—agency, setting, and events—within the Dolma web-scale pretraining corpus. Using a framework of 11 interpretable dimensions, the authors hand‑annotated 400 passages, expanded this to a 25,000‑passage LLM‑labeled dataset, and trained NarraBERT models to predict narrative features across 13 million passages, producing the NarraDolma dataset. The study reveals that narrative structure is measurable at scale and that narrative qualities vary unevenly across different data sources, topics, and formats, highlighting gaps in current data curation practices.
By Teagan Johnson, Elliott Ash, Andrew Piper, Maria Antoniak
arXiv:2605. 28969v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: If an AI agent makes decisions on a person's behalf, those decisions must align with its user.
By Aarik Gulaya
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. 05170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Role-playing agents (RPAs) have emerged as a key application of large language models, enabling immersive and high-fidelity character simulation.
By Zhihao Xiao, Mengting Li, Xintao Wang, Linfeng Li, Limin Shui, Mengqi Ji, Borui Cai
arXiv:2607. 16716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models and LLM-based agents are widely used as personal chat assistants, enterprise copilots, and autonomous workflow agents.
By Mihir Shriniwas Arya
arXiv:2607. 18566v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Persona prompting is widely used to steer LLM agent behavior, yet the narrative framing of a task can matter more than the assigned persona.
By Yixuan Wang, James Lester, Shashank Srivastava
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
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:2607. 05577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-form fiction writers need memory that answers multi-hop questions about evolving story state: who knows a secret and when they learned it, whether an event preceded the narration that revealed it, whether a setup paid off, and how a relationship shifted.
By Mohammad Saifullah, Thomas Kornmaier, Taaha Kazi, Vasu Sharma, Aditya Sanjiv Kanade, Aanand Kumar Yadav