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7 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…

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.LG2026

Transformer See, Transformer Do: Copying as an Intermediate Step in Learning Analogical Reasoning

Philipp Hellwig, Willem Zuidema, Claire E. Stevenson +1

Analogical reasoning is a hallmark of human intelligence, enabling us to solve new problems by transferring knowledge from one situation to another. Yet, developing artificial inte…

cs.CL2026

Causality Invariance: Function and Concept Vectors in LLMs

Gustaw Opiełka, Hannes Rosenbusch, Claire E. Stevenson

Do large language models (LLMs) represent concepts abstractly, i.e., independent of input format? We revisit Function Vectors (FVs), compact representations of in-context learning…

cs.CL2025

Modelling Analogies and Analogical Reasoning: Connecting Cognitive Science Theory and NLP Research

Molly R Petersen, Claire E Stevenson, Lonneke van der Plas

Analogical reasoning is an essential aspect of human cognition. In this paper, we summarize key theory about the processes underlying analogical reasoning from the cognitive scienc…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating Creative Short Story Generation in Humans and Large Language Models

Mete Ismayilzada, Claire Stevenson, Lonneke van der Plas

Story-writing is a fundamental aspect of human imagination, relying heavily on creativity to produce narratives that are novel, effective, and surprising. While large language mode…