16/06/2026
Yesterday the paper "MIRAGE: A Multi-Agent, Multi-RAG, Architecture for Metaphor-Driven Advertising Narratives and Commercial Video Generation" by Antonio Lieto and Anjali Sneha Kujur was presented at the WOA 2026, the 27th Workshop From Objects to Agents.
The paper presents a multi-agent and multi-rag pipeline able to generate, starting from a simple list of product features sent via a Telegram bot, an advertising video leveraging a metaphors-driven storytelling strategy.
The core component of the pipeline is represented by the Metaphor-RAG that employs the output of the MetCL system presented last year at IJCAI https://lnkd.in/dkMBbxv
MIRAGE (Metaphor-Informed Retrieval-Augmented Generative Engine) was developed during the internship of Anjali Sneha Kujur at the CIIT Lab, Cognition Interaction and Intelligent Technologies Laboratory.
Abstract:
Early-stage product design often begins with short, informal, descriptions that are rich in intent but poor in structure. Converting such descriptions into persuasive communication assets typically requires multiple human roles, including product strategists, copywriters, and creative directors. This paper presents a multi-agent, multi-RAG architecture - called MIRAGE (Metaphor-Informed Retrieval-Augmented Generative Engine) - that automates this transformation from a Telegram brief to a metaphor-grounded marketing story and finally to a self-explanatory commercial video. The central design choice of the system is to use metaphor as an explicit intermediate element used to generate a product-oriented story script upon which the video is generated. The proposed architecture offers a modular approach to controllable creative generation in product design settings. We report also the result of a preliminary user study evaluating the generated outcome and indicate a number of possibile research direction.
Preprint:https://www.ciitlab.org/mirage-woa2026.pdf
YouTube playlist with the generated videos (avatar-talking scenario and commercials): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3QJL5trfgE9Wlcvj0jECQ5MNNeN7uuW-