arXiv:2601.15295v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Interactive narrative (IN) authors craft spaces of divergent narrative possibilities for players to explore, with the player's input determin...
By Yi Wang, John Joon Young Chung, Melissa Roemmele, Yuqian Sun, Tiffany Wang, Shm Garanganao Almeda, Brett A. Halperin, Yuwen Lu, Max Kreminski
arXiv:2607. 00009v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the remarkable proficiency of large language models (LLMs) in basic writing assistance, their utility in creative writing is fundamentally hindered by a persistent binary failure.
By Mingzhe Lu, Yanbing Liu, Jiayue Wu, Jiarui Zhang, Qihao Wang, Yue Hu, Yunpeng Li, Yangyan Xu
arXiv:2609.14677v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have changed the way people engage with stories. Drawing on public chatbot logs, we can see that when users generate stori...
By Advait Deshmukh, Nora Benedict, Melanie Walsh, Maria Antoniak
The House with a Million Windows (HWAMW) is an LLM-based interactive fiction system that lets users narrate a story and then view it through a series of AI-generated "windows" that reframe the narrative in various literary styles. The system is grounded in the psychological restorying intervention, aiming to deepen users' exploration of meaning in their personal stories. Empirical results indicate that HWAMW enhances users' sense of narrative identity, and expert reviews suggest it achieves this by facilitating restorying rather than simply generating new content.
By Cody Kommers, Sarah G Immel, Drew Hemment, Mina Lee
arXiv:2609.16070v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Generative recommendation reformulates item prediction as semantic identifier generation, yet episodic content introduces a fundamentally different s...
By Chenxing Wang, Nantao Zheng, Hao Miao, Juyuan Wang, Xinke Jiang, Yuchen Fang, Aolin Li, Haijun Wu
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