Kai Chen
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2026
Topo-Narrator: Heterogeneous Topological Memory for Long-form Narrative Generation
Kai Chen | Haoran Zhang | Tian Lan | Zehua Duo | Jiang Li | Guanglai Gao | Xiangdong Su
Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Kai Chen | Haoran Zhang | Tian Lan | Zehua Duo | Jiang Li | Guanglai Gao | Xiangdong Su
Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Long-form narrative generation requires maintaining multi-dimensional consistency over extensive contexts, covering long-term constraints in character settings, event causality, spatial rules, and worldviews. Existing methods compress these heterogeneous elements into homogeneous representations, creating a topological mismatch that lowers retrieval signal-to-noise ratios and induces long-range logical collapse. We propose Topo-Narrator, a framework built on two complementary decouplings. Heterogeneous Topological Memory (HTM) organizes narrative state into a Character Graph, a Plot Chain, and an Environment Tree, providing topology-specific inductive biases. Plan-Reason-Write (PRW) multi-agent collaboration separates high-level reasoning, memory retrieval, and stylistic realization across dedicated agents. Experiments on MoPS and WritingPrompts show that Topo-Narrator consistently generates coherent narratives averaging over 13,000 words and substantially outperforms strong baselines on HANNA quality and fine-grained consistency metrics, validated by three frontier LLM judges and human evaluation.