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Agents' Room: Narrative Generation through Multi-step Collaboration

arXiv 2410.02603 ↗First posted 3 Oct 2024cs.CL cs.LG cs.MAcited by 57

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Multimodal and embodied agents

Abstract (arXiv)

Writing compelling fiction is a multifaceted process combining elements such as crafting a plot, developing interesting characters, and using evocative language. While large language models (LLMs) show promise for story writing, they currently rely heavily on intricate prompting, which limits their use. We propose Agents' Room, a generation framework inspired by narrative theory, that decomposes narrative writing into subtasks tackled by specialized agents. To illustrate our method, we introduce Tell Me A Story, a high-quality dataset of complex writing prompts and human-written stories, and a novel evaluation framework designed specifically for assessing long narratives. We show that Agents' Room generates stories that are preferred by expert evaluators over those produced by baseline systems by leveraging collaboration and specialization to decompose the complex story writing task into tractable components. We provide extensive analysis with automated and human-based metrics of the generated output.

Key facts. Cited by 57 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Multimodal and embodied agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 53 of its 98 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 3 Oct 2024.

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