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8 papers

cs.CL2026

AGC-Bench: Measuring Artificial General Creativity

Roger Beaty, Vijeta Deshpande, Clin K. Y. Lai +9

Creativity research has debated whether creativity is domain-specific (e.g., visual, writing, science), and if it is psychometrically separable from general intelligence. Both ques…

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How LLMs See Creativity: Zero-Shot Scoring of Visual Creativity with Interpretable Reasoning

William Orwig, Roger E. Beaty

Evaluating the originality of visual images poses enduring challenges for creativity assessment. Automated scoring using AI models has proven effective in the verbal domain, yet ke…

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Introducing multiplex semantic networks as multifaceted representations of creative associative knowledge across multilingual samples

Edith Haim, Kurt Haim, Roger E. Beaty +2

Creativity is a complex cognitive ability that relies on knowledge organisation and retrieval from semantic memory. Yet most research uses a single task to measure it, capturing on…

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Playing with Words, Improving with Rewards: Training Language Models for Creative Association

Vijeta Deshpande, Namrata Shivagunde, Sherin Muckatira +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) are being applied to increasingly difficult problems and use cases. To navigate their vast solution spaces effectively, LLMs need to be creative. Yet t…

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Large Language Models Align with the Human Brain during Creative Thinking

Mete Ismayilzada, Simone A. Luchini, Abdulkadir Gokce +5

Creative thinking is a fundamental aspect of human cognition, and divergent thinking-the capacity to generate novel and varied ideas-is widely regarded as its core generative engin…

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Diverse, not Short: A Length-Controlled Data Selection Strategy for Improving Response Diversity of Language Models

Vijeta Deshpande, Debasmita Ghose, John D. Patterson +2

Diverse language model responses are crucial for creative generation, open-ended tasks, and self-improvement training. We show that common diversity metrics, and even reward models…