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Autores principales: Hernandez, Jefferson, Saha, Swarnadeep, Whitehouse, Chenxi, Parekh, Sanjeel, Murdock, Calvin, Li, Yuliang, Brimijoin, W. Owen, Ithapu, Vamsi Krishna, Ananthabhotla, Ishwarya
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Publicado: 2026
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17832
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author Hernandez, Jefferson
Saha, Swarnadeep
Whitehouse, Chenxi
Parekh, Sanjeel
Murdock, Calvin
Li, Yuliang
Brimijoin, W. Owen
Ithapu, Vamsi Krishna
Ananthabhotla, Ishwarya
author_facet Hernandez, Jefferson
Saha, Swarnadeep
Whitehouse, Chenxi
Parekh, Sanjeel
Murdock, Calvin
Li, Yuliang
Brimijoin, W. Owen
Ithapu, Vamsi Krishna
Ananthabhotla, Ishwarya
contents In this work, we probe the ability of a language model to demonstrate spatial reasoning from unstructured text, mimicking human capabilities and automating a process that benefits many downstream media applications. Concretely, we study the narrative-to-play task: inferring stage-play layouts (scenes, speaker positions, movements, and room types) from text that lacks explicit spatial, positional, or relational cues. We then introduce a dramaturgy-inspired deterministic evaluation suite and, finally, a training and inference recipe that combines rejection SFT using Best-of-N sampling with RL from verifiable rewards via GRPO. Experiments on a text-only corpus of classical English literature demonstrate improvements over vanilla models across multiple metrics (character attribution, spatial plausibility, and movement economy), as well as alignment with an LLM-as-a-judge and subjective human preferences.
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spellingShingle Text-to-Stage: Spatial Layouts from Long-form Narratives
Hernandez, Jefferson
Saha, Swarnadeep
Whitehouse, Chenxi
Parekh, Sanjeel
Murdock, Calvin
Li, Yuliang
Brimijoin, W. Owen
Ithapu, Vamsi Krishna
Ananthabhotla, Ishwarya
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
In this work, we probe the ability of a language model to demonstrate spatial reasoning from unstructured text, mimicking human capabilities and automating a process that benefits many downstream media applications. Concretely, we study the narrative-to-play task: inferring stage-play layouts (scenes, speaker positions, movements, and room types) from text that lacks explicit spatial, positional, or relational cues. We then introduce a dramaturgy-inspired deterministic evaluation suite and, finally, a training and inference recipe that combines rejection SFT using Best-of-N sampling with RL from verifiable rewards via GRPO. Experiments on a text-only corpus of classical English literature demonstrate improvements over vanilla models across multiple metrics (character attribution, spatial plausibility, and movement economy), as well as alignment with an LLM-as-a-judge and subjective human preferences.
title Text-to-Stage: Spatial Layouts from Long-form Narratives
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17832