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BookWorld: From Novels to Interactive Agent Societies for Creative Story Generation

arXiv 2504.14538 ↗First posted 20 Apr 2025cs.CLcited by 12

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled social simulation through multi-agent systems. Prior efforts focus on agent societies created from scratch, assigning agents with newly defined personas. However, simulating established fictional worlds and characters remain largely underexplored, despite its significant practical value. In this paper, we introduce BookWorld, a comprehensive system for constructing and simulating book-based multi-agent societies. BookWorld's design covers comprehensive real-world intricacies, including diverse and dynamic characters, fictional worldviews, geographical constraints and changes, e.t.c. BookWorld enables diverse applications including story generation, interactive games and social simulation, offering novel ways to extend and explore beloved fictional works. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that BookWorld generates creative, high-quality stories while maintaining fidelity to the source books, surpassing previous methods with a win rate of 75.36%. The code of this paper can be found at the project page: https://bookworld2025.github.io/.

Key facts. Cited by 12 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Multimodal and embodied agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 17 of its 27 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 20 Apr 2025.

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17 of 27 references.

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  1. 2024IBSEN: Director-Actor Agent Collaboration for Controllable and Interactive Drama Script Generation1 Jul

Other references · 16

  1. 2023Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behaviorcited by 3,568
  2. 2023ChatEval: Towards Better LLM-based Evaluators through Multi-Agent Debatecited by 742
  3. 2018Plan-And-Write: Towards Better Automatic Storytellingcited by 234
  4. 2022Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: An Evaluation by Industry Professionalscited by 191
  5. 2024OASIS: Open Agent Social Interaction Simulations with One Million Agentscited by 132
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  7. 2023A Confederacy of Models: a Comprehensive Evaluation of LLMs on Creative Writingcited by 99
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  9. 2024Are Large Language Models Capable of Generating Human-Level Narratives?cited by 79
  10. 2024Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilizationcited by 49
  11. 2024From Role-Play to Drama-Interaction: An LLM Solutioncited by 42
  12. 2024Evaluating Character Understanding of Large Language Models via Character Profiling from Fictional Workscited by 38
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  1. 2023The Wisdom of Partisan Crowds: Comparing Collective Intelligence in Humans and LLM-based Agentscited by 30
  2. 2022Open-world Story Generation with Structured Knowledge Enhancement: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 22
  3. 2024HoLLMwood: Unleashing the Creativity of Large Language Models in Screenwriting via Role Playingcited by 22
  4. 2024Artificial Leviathan: Exploring Social Evolution of LLM Agents Through the Lens of Hobbesian Social Contract Theorycited by 16

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Citing papers per year: 2025: 7; 2026: 5.

12 papers.

  1. 2025Multi-Agent-as-Judge: Aligning LLM-Agent-Based Automated Evaluation with Multi-Dimensional Human Evaluationcited by 30
  2. 2025TwinVoice: A Multi-dimensional Benchmark Towards Digital Twins via LLM Persona Simulationcited by 15
  3. 2025The PIMMUR Principles: Ensuring Validity in Collective Behavior of LLM Societiescited by 14
  4. 2025Too Good to be Bad: On the Failure of LLMs to Role-Play Villainscited by 11
  5. 2025FURINA: A Fully Customizable Role-Playing Benchmark via Scalable Multi-Agent Collaboration Pipelinecited by 3
  6. 2026Sentipolis: Emotion-Aware Agents for Social Simulationscited by 2
  7. 2026Staying In Character: Perspective-Bounded Memory For Book-Based Role-Playing Agentscited by 2
  8. 2025CreAgentive: An Agent Workflow Driven Multi-Category Creative Generation Enginecited by 0
  9. 2025Telling Speculative Stories to Help Humans Imagine the Harms of Healthcare AIcited by 0
  10. 2026SAGE: Hierarchical LLM-Based Literary Evaluation through Ontology-Grounded Interpretive Dimensionscited by 0
  11. 2026ANIMASK: What the Model Contributes to Role Play in Simulated Story Worldscited by 0
  12. 2026Agentsensus: Consensus-Compressed Shared Memory for Multi-Agent Story Worldscited by 0

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