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Text-to-Stage: Spatial Layouts from Long-form Narratives

Jefferson Hernandez, Swarnadeep Saha, Chenxi Whitehouse, Sanjeel Parekh +5 more

Published

Mar 18, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Moderate

Usefulness score

57/100 (Medium)

Extraction confidence

65% (Moderate)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

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General Llm As Judge Pairwise Preference

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper has useful evaluation signal, but protocol completeness is partial; pair it with related papers before deciding implementation strategy.

Use this for comparison and orientation, not as your only source.

Best use

Secondary protocol comparison source

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Read the full paper before copying any benchmark, metric, or protocol choices.

Main weakness

The abstract does not clearly name benchmarks or metrics.

Human feedback signal
Detected
From extracted signals
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
57/100
Moderate-confidence candidate

Useful as a secondary reference; validate protocol details against neighboring papers.

If you are doing eval pipeline work, start here

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Abstract

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.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

strong

Pairwise Preference

Directly usable for protocol triage.

"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."

Evaluation Modes

strong

Llm As Judge

Includes extracted eval setup.

"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."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"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."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"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."

Reported Metrics

missing

Not extracted

No metric anchors detected.

"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."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
Yes
Feedback types
Pairwise Preference
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Llm As Judge
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Moderate
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Research brief

Metadata summary

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.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • 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.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

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Contribution summary

  • 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.
  • 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…

Why it matters for eval

  • 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.
  • 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.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    Detected: Pairwise Preference

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Llm As Judge

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.