139 - Coherent Long Story Generation, with Kevin Yang

How can we generate coherent long stories from language models? Ensuring that the generated story has long range consistency and that it conforms to a high level plan is typically challenging. In this episode, Kevin Yang describes their system that prompts language models to first generate an outline, and iteratively generate the story while following the outline and reranking and editing the outputs for coherence. We also discussed the challenges involved in evaluating long generated texts. Kevin Yang is a PhD student at UC Berkeley. Kevin's webpage: Papers discussed in this episode: 1. Re3: Generating Longer Stories With Recursive Reprompting and Revision ( 2. DOC: Improving Long Story Coherence With Detailed Outline Control (

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This episode is 00:45:18 long.

This episode was published on Mar 24, 2023.

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