为长篇小说创作设计了基于叙事学的智能记忆系统,精准回答复杂情节问题。
Narrative World Model: Narratology-Grounded Writer Memory for Long-Form Fiction
- 构建叙事结构化的时序状态图,捕捉角色、事件与关系演变
- 在多跳问答任务中显著超越现有基线模型,准确率提升超20%
- 适合需要深度情节理解的创作者或故事引擎研发者
长篇小说写作需要能回答关于故事发展状态的多跳问题:谁在何时知晓秘密、某事件是否早于其叙述出现、伏笔是否得到呼应、人物关系如何变化。通用检索与智能体记忆系统虽能表示实体和事实,却无法体现此类问题依赖的叙事结构,导致返回错误证据或无答案。我们提出叙事世界模型(Narrative World Model, NWM),结合基于叙事学的类型化时序状态图与查询条件的混合检索机制。为公平评估记忆能力,我们在同一固定读者Opus 4.8下,仅使用系统自身章节安全证据,在可复现的公开语料库与验证过的多跳基准上进行测试,并与最强的现有时序知识图谱记忆框架Graphiti/Zep(Rasmussen et al., 2025)对比。NWM在两个语料库上的多跳叙事问答任务中均显著优于该基线,远超GraphRAG与平面检索。该优势源于表征结构而非提取过程:即使使用NWM自身提取器重建基线,性能仍大幅领先,归因于其叙事学基础结构与查询条件检索机制,而非图规模或提取质量。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Long-form fiction writers need memory that answers multi-hop questions about evolving story state: who knows a secret and when they learned it, whether an event preceded the narration that revealed it, whether a setup paid off, and how a relationship shifted. General-purpose retrieval and agent-memory systems represent entities and facts but not the narratological structure these questions turn on, so they surface the wrong evidence or none at all. We introduce the Narrative World Model (NWM), a writer-memory system that pairs a narratology-grounded typed temporal-state graph with query-conditioned hybrid retrieval. To measure memory rather than the answerer, we read every system through a single held-constant Opus 4.8 reader over only that system's chapter-safe evidence, on a reproducible public corpus and a validated multi-hop benchmark, and we compare against the strongest existing temporal-knowledge-graph agent-memory framework, Graphiti/Zep (Rasmussen et al., 2025). NWM substantially and significantly outperforms this baseline on multi-hop narratological QA across both corpora, and far exceeds GraphRAG and flat retrieval. The advantage is representational rather than an artifact of extraction: it survives rebuilding the baseline with NWM's own extractor, and traces to its narratology-grounded structure and query-conditioned retrieval, not to graph size or extractor quality.
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