arxivcs.AIcs.CLcs.IR2026-07-06
Narrative World Model: Narratology-Grounded Writer Memory for Long-Form Fiction
Mohammad Saifullah, Thomas Kornmaier, Taaha Kazi, Vasu Sharma, Aditya Sanjiv Kanade, Aanand Kumar Yadav
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 retr…