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most citedOn the Creativity of Large Language Models

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cs.CL2026

The Limits of Automatic Evaluation of Creativity in Large Language Models

Alessandro Tutone, Giorgio Franceschelli, Mirco Musolesi

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly capable of generating text that challenges human performance in domains requiring creativity, yet evaluating creativity in LLM-generat…

cs.CY2026

On the Creativity of AI Agents

Giorgio Franceschelli, Mirco Musolesi

Large language models (LLMs), particularly when integrated into agentic systems, have demonstrated human- and even superhuman-level performance across multiple domains. Whether the…

cs.LG2025

Complexity-Regularized Proximal Policy Optimization

Luca Serfilippi, Giorgio Franceschelli, Antonio Corradi +1

Policy gradient methods usually rely on entropy regularization to prevent premature convergence. However, maximizing entropy indiscriminately pushes the policy towards a uniform di…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Quantum Chemistry Driven Molecular Inverse Design with Data-free Reinforcement Learning

Francesco Calcagno, Luca Serfilippi, Giorgio Franceschelli +3

The inverse design of molecules has challenged chemists for decades. In the past years, machine learning and artificial intelligence have emerged as new tools to generate molecules…

cs.CL2025

DiffSampling: Enhancing Diversity and Accuracy in Neural Text Generation

Giorgio Franceschelli, Mirco Musolesi

Despite their growing capabilities, language models still frequently reproduce content from their training data, generate repetitive text, and favor common grammatical patterns and…

cs.CL2025

Thinking Outside the (Gray) Box: A Context-Based Score for Assessing Value and Originality in Neural Text Generation

Giorgio Franceschelli, Mirco Musolesi

Despite the increasing use of large language models for creative tasks, their outputs often lack diversity. Common solutions, such as sampling at higher temperatures, can compromis…

cs.CY2024

Training Foundation Models as Data Compression: On Information, Model Weights and Copyright Law

Giorgio Franceschelli, Claudia Cevenini, Mirco Musolesi

The training process of foundation models as for other classes of deep learning systems is based on minimizing the reconstruction error over a training set. For this reason, they a…

cs.AI2024

Creative Beam Search: LLM-as-a-Judge For Improving Response Generation

Giorgio Franceschelli, Mirco Musolesi

Large language models are revolutionizing several areas, including artificial creativity. However, the process of generation in machines profoundly diverges from that observed in h…

cs.LG2024

Do Agents Dream of Electric Sheep?: Improving Generalization in Reinforcement Learning through Generative Learning

Giorgio Franceschelli, Mirco Musolesi

The Overfitted Brain hypothesis suggests dreams happen to allow generalization in the human brain. Here, we ask if the same is true for reinforcement learning agents as well. Given…

cs.LG2023★ 50 cited

Reinforcement Learning for Generative AI: State of the Art, Opportunities and Open Research Challenges

Giorgio Franceschelli, Mirco Musolesi

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most exciting developments in Computer Science of the last decade. At the same time, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged a…

cs.AI2023★ 97 cited

On the Creativity of Large Language Models

Giorgio Franceschelli, Mirco Musolesi

Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing several areas of Artificial Intelligence. One of the most remarkable applications is creative writing, e.g., poetry or storytelling…

cs.LG2022★ 13 cited

DeepCreativity: Measuring Creativity with Deep Learning Techniques

Giorgio Franceschelli, Mirco Musolesi

Measuring machine creativity is one of the most fascinating challenges in Artificial Intelligence. This paper explores the possibility of using generative learning techniques for a…

cs.CY2021★ 79 cited

Copyright in Generative Deep Learning

Giorgio Franceschelli, Mirco Musolesi

Machine-generated artworks are now part of the contemporary art scene: they are attracting significant investments and they are presented in exhibitions together with those created…

cs.LG2021★ 41 cited

Creativity and Machine Learning: A Survey

Giorgio Franceschelli, Mirco Musolesi

There is a growing interest in the area of machine learning and creativity. This survey presents an overview of the history and the state of the art of computational creativity the…