让大模型学会埋伏笔并兑现,提升故事逻辑连贯性
Codified Foreshadowing-Payoff Text Generation
- 将叙事因果关系转为可执行的结构化指令
- 在BookSum数据集上使情节兑现准确率显著提升
- 适合追求故事逻辑严谨性的生成任务使用者
伏笔与收束是叙事中的常见手法,作者在故事早期埋下承诺,后期以具体可观察的结果实现。尽管故事生成技术进步,大型语言模型(LLMs)仍难以弥合长程叙事依赖,常导致‘契诃夫之枪’未被触发,即使上下文已具备。现有评估多关注表面连贯性,忽视叙事设置的逻辑实现。本文提出编码式伏笔-收束生成框架(CFPG),从BookSum语料库中挖掘并编码伏笔-触发-收束三元组,将叙事连续性转化为一组可执行的因果谓词,提供结构化监督,确保伏笔不仅被提及,且在时间与逻辑上得到落实。实验表明,CFPG在收束准确性与叙事一致性上显著优于标准提示基线。结果表明,显式编码叙事机制是推动大模型从表层流畅迈向真正叙事能力的关键。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Foreshadowing and payoff are ubiquitous narrative devices through which authors introduce commitments early in a story and resolve them through concrete, observable outcomes. However, despite advances in story generation, large language models (LLMs) frequently fail to bridge these long-range narrative dependencies, often leaving "Chekhov's guns" unfired even when the necessary context is present. Existing evaluations largely overlook this structural failure, focusing on surface-level coherence rather than the logical fulfillment of narrative setups. In this paper, we introduce Codified Foreshadowing-Payoff Generation (CFPG), a novel framework that reframes narrative quality through the lens of payoff realization. Recognizing that LLMs struggle to intuitively grasp the "triggering mechanism" of a foreshadowed event, CFPG transforms narrative continuity into a set of executable causal predicates. By mining and encoding Foreshadow-Trigger-Payoff triples from the BookSum corpus, we provide structured supervision that ensures foreshadowed commitments are not only mentioned but also temporally and logically fulfilled. Experiments demonstrate that CFPG significantly outperforms standard prompting baselines in payoff accuracy and narrative alignment. Our findings suggest that explicitly codifying narrative mechanics is essential for moving LLMs from surface-level fluency to genuine narrative competence.
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