4 papers
Rational Communication Shapes Morphological Composition
Fengyuan Yang, Yongqian Peng, Yuxi Ma +2
Human languages expand vocabularies by combining existing morphemes rather than inventing arbitrary forms. Communicative efficiency shapes lexical systems at multiple levels (Gibso…
NarrativeLoom: Enhancing Creative Storytelling through Multi-Persona Collaborative Improvisation
Yuxi Ma, Yongqian Peng, Fengyuan Yang +5
Large Language Models show promise for AI-assisted storytelling, yet current tools often generate predictable, unoriginal narratives. To address this limitation, we present Narrati…
Probing and Inducing Combinational Creativity in Vision-Language Models
Yongqian Peng, Yuxi Ma, Mengmeng Wang +5
The ability to combine existing concepts into novel ideas stands as a fundamental hallmark of human intelligence. Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like GPT-4V and D…
Word Embeddings Track Social Group Changes Across 70 Years in China
Yuxi Ma, Yongqian Peng, Yixin Zhu
Language encodes societal beliefs about social groups through word patterns. While computational methods like word embeddings enable quantitative analysis of these patterns, studie…