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Can LLMs Tell Stories Out of Order? A Corpus and Benchmark for Nonlinear Narrative Generation
Oct 15, 2026Syed Rifat Raiyan, Md. Tariquzzaman, Md Farhan Ishmam +1Narrative Generation Text Generation
Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh · University of Utah, USA · University of Southern California, USA
SENSE: State-aware Emotion Navigation Storytelling Engine
Oct 6, 2026Yi Xia, Pablo Carrasco Velo, Mudit Paliwal +5Interactive Storytelling Narrative Generation
Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Ibaraki, Japan · College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Ibaraki, Japan · Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
NarrativeSteward: Coordinating Delegation, Guidance, and Verification in Agent-Assisted Interactive Narrative Authoring
Sep 30, 2026Wenjin Wang, Jiazhen Lei, Yuxin Sha +6Interactive Storytelling LLM Agent Orchestration
Interactive Entertainment Group, Tencent Inc Shanghai, China
Scaling Long-Form Story Generation via Narrative State Tracking
Sep 28, 2026Zhennan Wan, Jianfei ChenLong-Form Document Generation LLM Agents
Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Tech., Institute for AI, BNRist Center, THBI Lab, Tsinghua-Bosch Joint ML Center, Tsinghua University
Shared Worlds, Private Minds: Structured Memory for Long-Form Writing as World Creation
Sep 26, 2026Qiuyu Tian, Xiaowen Gu, Hang Su +9Memory-Augmented Language Model Agents Agent Memory Management
Southeast University, Nanjing, China · Beijing Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing, China · School of Animation and Digital Arts, Communication University of China +5
MUSE: A Theory-Harnessed Story Engine for Vibe Narrativizing
Sep 14, 2026Jianxiang Ma, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang +5Long-Form Document Generation Text Generation
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China · OranAI, Shenzhen 518057, China · OranAI Ltd., City of Industry, CA 91748, USA
The Garden of Forking Prompts: How Users Explore Narrative Space in Story Generation
Sep 13, 2026Advait Deshmukh, Nora Benedict, Melanie Walsh +1LLM Prompting Narrative Generation
University of Colorado Boulder · University of Georgia · University of Washington
When Stories Evolve: Benchmarking LLM Storytelling Across Agent Architectures in Open-Ended World Simulations
Aug 16, 2026Yuqi Chen, Sixuan Li, Yunfeng Cai +3Narrative Generation Language Model Generation Evaluation
The University of Hong Kong · Peking University · Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA) +1
Narrative Keyframing for Generative Creative Writing
Aug 11, 2026Chao Zhang, Abe DavisInteractive Storytelling Controllable Text Generation
Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA
CraftAlign: Feature-Grounded Evaluation and Revision Guidance for AI Stories
Aug 2, 2026Yang Yang, Boyun Xu, Shaofeng Liang +5AI-Generated Text Detection Language Model Generation Evaluation
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511400, China · Institute of Deep Perception Technology, JITRI, Wuxi 214000, China
From Personas to Plot: Character-Grounded Multi-Agent Story Generation for Long-Form Narratives
Jul 1, 2026Aayush Aluru, Chloe Ho, Muhammad Hammouri +5Grounded Text Generation Multi-Agent LLMs
Pocket FM · Princeton University · University of Michigan +2
Narrative-UFET: Narrative Generation for Ultra-Fine Entity Typing
Jun 25, 2026Mreedul Gupta, Advait Deshmukh, Ashwin Umadi +2Long-Tail Learning Narrative Generation
University of Colorado Boulder
Staying In Character: Perspective-Bounded Memory For Book-Based Role-Playing Agents
Jun 24, 2026Xushuo Tang, Junhe Zhang, Zihan Yang +4Narrative Generation Conversational Agents
UNSW Sydney · Chang’an University · RAIDS Lab +2
NarrativeWorldBench: A Frontier-Saturated Benchmark and a Latent World Model for Long-Horizon Co-Creative Audio Drama
Jun 16, 2026Logan Mann, Abdur Rahman, Mohammad Saifullah +2LLM World Models Multilingual Language Model Evaluation
University of California, Santa Barbara · Pocket FM
Do Large Language Models Always Tell The Same Stories?
Jun 15, 2026Thennal DK, Hans Ole HatzelLLM Evaluation Diverse Text Generation
Language Technology Group University of Hamburg
Helping Figures Tell their Story! Paper-Grounded Video Generation Explaining Complex Scientific Figures
Jun 10, 2026Ishani Mondal, Javad Baghirov, Jordan Boyd-GraberImage-to-Video Generation Video Generation
University of Maryland, College Park
Towards Human-Level Book-Writing Capability
May 16, 2026Jan Zierstek, Matteo Batelic, Maya Medjad +1Long-Form Document Generation LLM Fine-Tuning
Pageshift Entertainment
NARRA-Gym for Evaluating Interactive Narrative Agents
May 8, 2026Yue Huang, Yuchen Ma, Jiayi Ye +14Language Model Generation Evaluation Interactive Storytelling
University of Notre Dame · 2LMU Munich · 11Munich Center for Machine Learning +8
StoryAlign: Evaluating and Training Reward Models for Story Generation
May 6, 2026Haotian Xia, Hao Peng, Yunjia Qi +4Reward Modeling Language Model Generation Evaluation
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
Controllable Narrative Rendering for Enhanced Assisted Writing
May 5, 2026Mingzhe Lu, Yanbing Liu, Jiayue Wu +5Narrative Generation Controllable Text Generation
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · 3HiThink Research
From World-Gen to Quest-Line: A Dependency-Driven Prompt Pipeline for Coherent RPG Generation
Apr 28, 2026Dominik Borawski, Marta Szulc, Robert Chudy +2LLM Prompting Narrative Generation
Gda´nsk University of Technology
Planning Beyond Text: Graph-based Reasoning for Complex Narrative Generation
Apr 23, 2026Hanwen Gu, Chao Guo, Junle Wang +2LLM Planning Narrative Generation
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Tencent Turing Lab
CANVAS: Continuity-Aware Narratives via Visual Agentic Storyboarding
Apr 15, 2026Ishani Mondal, Yiwen Song, Mihir Parmar +4Visual Storytelling Narrative Generation
University of Maryland, College Park · Google
Spoiler Alert: Narrative Forecasting as a Metric for Tension in LLM Storytelling
Apr 10, 2026Peiqi Sui, Yutong Zhu, Tianyi Cheng +4Language Model Generation Evaluation Narrative Generation
McGill University · University of Chicago · University of British Columbia +1
Narrix: Remixing Narrative Strategies from Examples for Story Writing
Apr 8, 2026Chao Zhang, Shunan Guo, Abe Davis +1Narrative Generation Interactive Storytelling
Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA · Adobe Research San Jose, CA, USA
PlotTwist: A Creative Plot Generation Framework with Small Language Models
Mar 17, 2026Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla, Jyotin Goel +2Narrative Generation Small Language Models
Sony Research India
BiT-MCTS: A Theme-based Bidirectional MCTS Approach to Chinese Fiction Generation
Mar 15, 2026Zhaoyi Li, Xu Zhang, Xiaojun WanNarrative Generation Text Generation
Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University · School of Foreign Languages, Peking University
Preconditioned Test-Time Adaptation for Out-of-Distribution Debiasing in Narrative Generation
Mar 14, 2026Hanwen Shen, Ting Ying, Jiajie Lu +1Narrative Generation Language Model Debiasing
Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence in Mathematics Education, Stevens Institute of Technology · Independent Researcher · NLP2CT Lab, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau
The AI Fiction Paradox
Mar 13, 2026Katherine ElkinsNarrative Generation Text Generation
Integrated Program in Humane Studies, Kenyon College · AI CoLab, Kenyon College · Human Centered AI Lab
Lost in Stories: Consistency Bugs in Long Story Generation by LLMs
Mar 6, 2026Junjie Li, Xinrui Guo, Yuhao Wu +3Narrative Generation Reasoning Consistency in Language Models
Microsoft, Beijing, China · Singapore University of Technology and Design

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Can LLMs Tell Stories Out of Order? A Corpus and Benchmark for Nonlinear Narrative Generation

Syed Rifat Raiyan, Md. Tariquzzaman, Md Farhan Ishmam, Tenghao Huang

Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh · University of Utah, USA · University of Southern California, USA

Narrative Generation Text Generation Language Model Generation Evaluation Temporal Reasoning in Language Models

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Every story has two orders: the order in which its events happen and the order in which they are told. A story is nonlinear when the two differ. We introduce a benchmark of 83 published works that measures whether language models can tell nonlinear stories. For each work, we annotate one list of events in both orders, together with a story graph of causal dependencies, character knowledge, and the questions the telling raises and resolves. Given events in chronological order, all 19 models tell them, on average, more chronologically than the published works do; asked for a specific structure, they land within the human range about half the time. We then compare a model's stories of the same events under different conditions, using both an automated judge and 71 human readers. Both prefer the chronological story a model writes by default to the nonlinear one it writes on request, which readers find harder to follow in 81% of decisive judgments. Readers also prefer stories written from the story graph to stories constrained to the published telling order (72% of decisive judgments), a difference the judge does not detect. Our results suggest that following an instruction to reorder a story is not yet the same as telling it well out of order.