most citedThe Creative Frontier of Generative AI: Managing the Novelty-Usefulness Tradeoff

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cs.CV2024

SemUV: Deep Learning based semantic manipulation over UV texture map of virtual human heads

Anirban Mukherjee, Venkat Suprabath Bitra, Vignesh Bondugula +2

Designing and manipulating virtual human heads is essential across various applications, including AR, VR, gaming, human-computer interaction and VFX. Traditional graphic-based app…

econ.EM2024

CAVIAR: Categorical-Variable Embeddings for Accurate and Robust Inference

Anirban Mukherjee, Hannah Hanwen Chang

Social science research often hinges on the relationship between categorical variables and outcomes. We introduce CAVIAR, a novel method for embedding categorical variables that as…

cs.AI2024

AI Knowledge and Reasoning: Emulating Expert Creativity in Scientific Research

Anirban Mukherjee, Hannah Hanwen Chang

We investigate whether modern AI can emulate expert creativity in complex scientific endeavors. We introduce novel methodology that utilizes original research articles published af…

cs.AI20242 cited

Heuristic Reasoning in AI: Instrumental Use and Mimetic Absorption

Anirban Mukherjee, Hannah Hanwen Chang

Deviating from conventional perspectives that frame artificial intelligence (AI) systems solely as logic emulators, we propose a novel program of heuristic reasoning. We distinguis…

cs.AI2024

Psittacines of Innovation? Assessing the True Novelty of AI Creations

Anirban Mukherjee

We examine whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems generate truly novel ideas rather than merely regurgitating patterns learned during training. Utilizing a novel experimental…

cs.LG2023

Addressing Dynamic and Sparse Qualitative Data: A Hilbert Space Embedding of Categorical Variables

Anirban Mukherjee, Hannah H. Chang

We propose a novel framework for incorporating qualitative data into quantitative models for causal estimation. Previous methods use categorical variables derived from qualitative…