Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Like humans, Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to generate high-quality long-form text that adheres to strict requirements in a single pass.This challenge is unsurprising, as successful human writing, according to the Cognitive Writing Theory, is a complex cognitive process involving iterative planning, translating, reviewing, and monitoring.Motivated by these cognitive principles, we aim to equip LLMs with human-like cognitive writing capabilities through CogWriter, a novel training-free framework that transforms LLM constrained longform text generation into a systematic cognitive writing paradigm.Our framework consists of two key modules: (1) a Planning Agent that performs hierarchical planning to decompose the task, and (2) multiple Generation Agents that execute these plans in parallel.The system maintains quality via continuous monitoring and reviewing mechanisms, which evaluate outputs against specified requirements and trigger necessary revisions.CogWriter demonstrates exceptional performance on LongGenBench, a benchmark for complex constrained longform text generation.Even when using Qwen-2.5-14Bas its backbone, CogWriter surpasses GPT-4o by 22% in complex instruction completion accuracy while reliably generating texts exceeding 10,000 words.We hope this cognitive science-inspired approach provides a paradigm for LLM writing advancements: CogWriter.
Authors: Kaiyang Wan, Honglin Mu, Rui Hao, Haoran Luo, Tianle Gu, Xiuying Chen
Language: English
Topic: Topic Modeling
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4412888386