3 papers
cs.CL2026
Beyond Tokens: Concept-Level Training Objectives for LLMs
Laya Iyer, Pranav Somani, Alice Guo +2
The next-token prediction (NTP) objective has been foundational in the development of modern large language models (LLMs), driving advances in fluency and generalization. However,…
cs.CL2025
Cooking Up Creativity: Enhancing LLM Creativity through Structured Recombination
Moran Mizrahi, Chen Shani, Gabriel Stanovsky +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at many tasks, yet they struggle to produce truly creative, diverse ideas. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach that enhances LLM creativ…
cs.CL2025
Rethinking Word Similarity: Semantic Similarity through Classification Confusion
Kaitlyn Zhou, Haishan Gao, Sarah Chen +3
Word similarity has many applications to social science and cultural analytics tasks like measuring meaning change over time and making sense of contested terms. Yet traditional si…