Re3: Generating Longer Stories With Recursive Reprompting and Revision (original) (raw)

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We consider the problem of automatically generating longer stories of over two thousand words. Compared to prior work on shorter stories, long-range plot coherence and relevance are more central challenges here. We propose the Recursive Reprompting and Revision framework (Re3) to address these challenges by (a) prompting a general-purpose language model to construct a structured overarching plan, and (b) generating story passages by repeatedly injecting contextual information from both the plan and current story state into a language model prompt. We then revise by (c) reranking different continuations for plot coherence and premise relevance, and finally (d) editing the best continuation for factual consistency. Compared to similar-length stories generated directly from the same base model, human evaluators judged substantially more of Re3’s stories as having a coherent overarching plot (by 14% absolute increase), and relevant to the given initial premise (by 20%).

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2022.emnlp-main.296

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Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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December

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2022

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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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Yoav Goldberg,Zornitsa Kozareva,Yue Zhang

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EMNLP

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Association for Computational Linguistics

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4393–4479

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https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.296/

DOI:

10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.296

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Kevin Yang, Yuandong Tian, Nanyun Peng, and Dan Klein. 2022. Re3: Generating Longer Stories With Recursive Reprompting and Revision. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 4393–4479, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.

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