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20242026
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10 papers

q-bio.NC2026

Large Language Models Align with the Human Brain during Creative Thinking

Mete Ismayilzada, Simone A. Luchini, Abdulkadir Gokce +5

Creative thinking is a fundamental aspect of human cognition, and divergent thinking-the capacity to generate novel and varied ideas-is widely regarded as its core generative engin…

cs.CL2026

CresOWLve: Benchmarking Creative Problem-Solving Over Real-World Knowledge

Mete Ismayilzada, Renqing Cuomao, Daniil Yurshevich +3

Creative problem-solving requires combining multiple cognitive abilities, including logical reasoning, lateral thinking, analogy-making, and commonsense knowledge, to discover insi…

cs.CL2025

Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments

Project Apertus, Alejandro Hernández-Cano, Alexander Hägele +100

We present Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs) designed to address two systemic shortcomings in today's open model ecosystem: data compliance and multilingu…

cs.CL2025

Creative Preference Optimization

Mete Ismayilzada, Antonio Laverghetta, Simone A. Luchini +4

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across natural language generation tasks, their ability to generate truly creative content-characterized…

cs.AI2025

Creativity in AI: Progresses and Challenges

Mete Ismayilzada, Debjit Paul, Antoine Bosselut +1

Creativity is the ability to produce novel, useful, and surprising ideas, and has been widely studied as a crucial aspect of human cognition. Machine creativity on the other hand h…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating Morphological Compositional Generalization in Large Language Models

Mete Ismayilzada, Defne Circi, Jonne Sälevä +6

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant progress in various natural language generation and understanding tasks. However, their linguistic generalization capabil…