Scaling Long-Form Story Generation via Narrative State Tracking

arXiv:2609.35759 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/zhennan1/NstAgent

Terminology

• Consistency — 34× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge Graph — 6× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Ablation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generative AI — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Agentic Framework — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Benchmarking — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Elias — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge graphs — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multi-agent Collaboration — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• World Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agent Memory — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Commentary — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• GRPO — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Multi-Agent Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Synthetic Data Generation — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Finding Flawed Fictions: Evaluating Complex Reasoning in Language Models via Plot Hole Detection
• Benchmarking LLM-as-a-Judge for Long-Form Output Evaluation
• StoryLens: Preference-Aligned Story Rewriting via Context-Aware Narrative Enrichment
• Do Large Language Models Always Tell The Same Stories?
• Narrative Theory-Driven LLM Methods for Automatic Story Generation and Understanding: A Survey
• MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems
• LLM Evaluators Recognize and Favor Their Own Generations
• Language Models can Self-Lengthen to Generate Long Texts
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• Zep: A Temporal Knowledge Graph Architecture for Agent Memory
• Narrative World Model: Narratology-Grounded Writer Memory for Long-Form Fiction
• DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models
• Long Story Generation via Knowledge Graph and Literary Theory
• ArcANE: Do Role-Playing Language Agents Stay in Character at the Right Time?
• StoryWriter: A Multi-Agent Framework for Long Story Generation
• Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena
• RecurrentGPT: Interactive Generation of (Arbitrarily) Long Text

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