3 papers
cs.AI2026
Assessing the Creativity of Large Language Models: Testing, Limits, and New Frontiers
Samuel Schapiro, Alexi Gladstone, Jonah Black +1
Measuring the creativity of large language models (LLMs) is essential for designing methods that can improve creativity and for enhancing our scientific understanding of this abili…
cs.AI2026
Combinatorial Creativity: A New Frontier in Generalization Abilities
Samuel Schapiro, Sumuk Shashidhar, Alexi Gladstone +4
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, and Large Language Models (LLMs) in particular, are increasingly employed for creative tasks like scientific idea generation, constituting a f…
cs.AI2025
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…