3 papers
cs.CL2026
StorySpark: Module-wise Evolutionary Search for Story Premise Generation
Yang Yang, Zining Zhong, Qian Cao +5
A story premise is the creative spark from which a full narrative can grow. Yet LLM-based story generation has mostly emphasized later-stage planning, controllability, coherence, a…
cs.CL2026
Evaluating Text Creativity across Diverse Domains: A Dataset and Large Language Model Evaluator
Qian Cao, Xiting Wang, Yuzhuo Yuan +3
Creativity evaluation remains a challenging frontier for large language models (LLMs). Current evaluations heavily rely on inefficient and costly human judgments, hindering progres…
cs.CL2026
DPWriter: Reinforcement Learning with Diverse Planning Branching for Creative Writing
Qian Cao, Yahui Liu, Wei Bi +6
Reinforcement learning (RL)-based enhancement of large language models (LLMs) often leads to reduced output diversity, undermining their utility in open-ended tasks like creative w…