Story Generation

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

8 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

1 subtask in the archive's task tree.

Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 110 papers with code (235 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Hierarchical Neural Story Generation
  13 May 2018 7 repositories listed
  We explore story generation: creative systems that can build coherent and fluent passages of text about a topic.
• Locally Typical Sampling
  1 Feb 2022 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 25 samples · 19 unverified · 15 pointer-only (licence)
  Automatic and human evaluations show that, in comparison to nucleus and top-k sampling, locally typical sampling offers competitive performance (in both abstractive summarization and story generation) in terms of…
• A Temporal Variational Model for Story Generation
  14 Sep 2021 3 repositories listed
  Recent language models can generate interesting and grammatically correct text in story generation but often lack plot development and long-term coherence.
• SS-GEN: A Social Story Generation Framework with Large Language Models
  22 Jun 2024 2 repositories listed
  Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often misunderstand social situations and struggle to participate in daily routines.
• MAGE: Machine-generated Text Detection in the Wild
  22 May 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified
  In practical scenarios, however, the detector faces texts from various domains or LLMs without knowing their sources.
• Transformer-based Conditional Variational Autoencoder for Controllable Story Generation
  4 Jan 2021 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 5 samples · 1 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
  In this paper, we advocate to revive latent variable modeling, essentially the power of representation learning, in the era of Transformers to enhance controllability without hurting state-of-the-art generation…
• On Faithfulness and Factuality in Abstractive Summarization
  2 May 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 2 samples · 2 unverified
  It is well known that the standard likelihood training and approximate decoding objectives in neural text generation models lead to less human-like responses for open-ended tasks such as language modeling and story…
• PlotMachines: Outline-Conditioned Generation with Dynamic Plot State Tracking
  30 Apr 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 11 samples · 11 unverified
  We propose the task of outline-conditioned story generation: given an outline as a set of phrases that describe key characters and events to appear in a story, the task is to generate a coherent narrative that is…
• StoryWriter: A Multi-Agent Framework for Long Story Generation
  19 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  Long story generation remains a challenge for existing large language models (LLMs), primarily due to two main factors: (1) discourse coherence, which requires plot consistency, logical coherence, and completeness in…
• Consistent Story Generation with Asymmetry Zigzag Sampling
  11 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  Text-to-image generation models have made significant progress in producing high-quality images from textual descriptions, yet they continue to struggle with maintaining subject consistency across multiple images, a…
• Counterfactual reasoning: an analysis of in-context emergence
  5 Jun 2025 1 repository listed Syntology ran 5 of 16 samples · 11 unverified
  We show that language models are capable of counterfactual reasoning in this controlled setup and provide insights that counterfactual reasoning for a broad class of functions can be reduced to a transformation on…
• WebNovelBench: Placing LLM Novelists on the Web Novel Distribution
  20 May 2025 1 repository listed
  Robustly evaluating the long-form storytelling capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) remains a significant challenge, as existing benchmarks often lack the necessary scale, diversity, or objective measures.
• StoryReasoning Dataset: Using Chain-of-Thought for Scene Understanding and Grounded Story Generation
  15 May 2025 1 repository listed
  Visual storytelling systems struggle to maintain character identity across frames and link actions to appropriate subjects, frequently leading to referential hallucinations.
• Learning to Reason for Long-Form Story Generation
  28 Mar 2025 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 15 samples · 14 unverified
  Generating high-quality stories spanning thousands of tokens requires competency across a variety of skills, from tracking plot and character arcs to keeping a consistent and engaging style.
• Whose story is it? Personalizing story generation by inferring author styles
  18 Feb 2025 1 repository listed
  Human evaluation highlights the high quality of our Author Writing Sheet and provides valuable insights into the personalized story generation task.
• IP-Prompter: Training-Free Theme-Specific Image Generation via Dynamic Visual Prompting
  26 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  The stories and characters that captivate us as we grow up shape unique fantasy worlds, with images serving as the primary medium for visually experiencing these realms.
• One-Prompt-One-Story: Free-Lunch Consistent Text-to-Image Generation Using a Single Prompt
  23 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  Drawing inspiration from the inherent context consistency, we propose a novel training-free method for consistent text-to-image (T2I) generation, termed "One-Prompt-One-Story" (1Prompt1Story).
• Generating Long-form Story Using Dynamic Hierarchical Outlining with Memory-Enhancement
  18 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  Long-form story generation task aims to produce coherent and sufficiently lengthy text, essential for applications such as novel writingand interactive storytelling.
• Improving Linguistic Diversity of Large Language Models with Possibility Exploration Fine-Tuning
  4 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  Although several fine-tuning and prompting techniques have been suggested to tackle the issue, they are often tailored to specific tasks or come with a substantial increase in computational cost and latency.
• Richer Output for Richer Countries: Uncovering Geographical Disparities in Generated Stories and Travel Recommendations
  11 Nov 2024 1 repository listed
  While a large body of work inspects language models for biases concerning gender, race, occupation and religion, biases of geographical nature are relatively less explored.
• Bayesian Calibration of Win Rate Estimation with LLM Evaluators
  7 Nov 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 4 samples · 4 unverified
  Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) show the potential of using LLMs as evaluators for assessing the quality of text generations from LLMs.
• Evaluating Creative Short Story Generation in Humans and Large Language Models
  4 Nov 2024 1 repository listed
  Automated metrics show that LLMs generate stylistically complex stories, but tend to fall short in terms of novelty, surprise and diversity when compared to average human writers.
• Collective Critics for Creative Story Generation
  3 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  Generating a long story of several thousand words with narrative coherence using Large Language Models (LLMs) has been a challenging task.
• It is Time to Develop an Auditing Framework to Promote Value Aware Chatbots
  3 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  In this position paper, we argue that the speed of advancement of this technology requires us, as computer and data scientists, to mobilize and develop a values-based auditing framework containing a community…
• Assessing Language Models' Worldview for Fiction Generation
  15 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  We highlight the limitations of current LLMs in fiction writing and advocate for future research to test and create story worlds for LLMs to reside in.
• DataNarrative: Automated Data-Driven Storytelling with Visualizations and Texts
  9 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  Data-driven storytelling is a powerful method for conveying insights by combining narrative techniques with visualizations and text.
• SEED-Story: Multimodal Long Story Generation with Large Language Model
  11 Jul 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 14 of 17 samples · 3 unverified · 17 pointer-only (licence)
  We further propose multimodal attention sink mechanism to enable the generation of stories with up to 25 sequences (only 10 for training) in a highly efficient autoregressive manner.
• Arabic Automatic Story Generation with Large Language Models
  10 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  For our GPT-41 data, we introduce crafted prompts that allow us to generate data well-suited to the Arabic context in both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and two Arabic dialects (Egyptian and Moroccan).
• Human-AI Collaborative Taxonomy Construction: A Case Study in Profession-Specific Writing Assistants
  26 Jun 2024 1 repository listed
  Large Language Models (LLMs) have assisted humans in several writing tasks, including text revision and story generation.
• CollabStory: Multi-LLM Collaborative Story Generation and Authorship Analysis
  18 Jun 2024 1 repository listed
  Despite this, there have not been efforts to explore such collaborative writing.

Syntology lines on 9 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.