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Measuring Combinatorial Creativity in Large Language Models and Humans
Samuel Schapiro, Sumuk Shashidhar, Akshay K. Jagadish +11
Combinatorial creativity, the process of combining familiar ideas in unfamiliar ways, is one of the foremost engines of scientific, technological, and artistic progress. This work…
Spark: A System for Scientifically Creative Idea Generation
Aishik Sanyal, Samuel Schapiro, Sumuk Shashidhar +3
Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown promising abilities to generate novel research ideas in science, a direction which coincides with many foundational principles in…
Transformational Creativity in Science: A Graphical Theory
Samuel Schapiro, Jonah Black, Lav R. Varshney
Creative processes are typically divided into three types: combinatorial, exploratory, and transformational. Here, we provide a graphical theory of transformational scientific crea…