5 papers
Where did the ambiguity go? Examining how multimodal models interpret polysemous words
Jasin Cekinmez, Addison J. Wu, Raja Marjieh +1
Human language is highly polysemous. Many common words (e.g., "bank" or "palm") carry several distinct meanings that shape what humans communicate and imagine. Large language model…
Assessing the Effect of Cross-Domain Mapping on Creativity in Humans and Large Language Models
Qiawen Ella Liu, Marina Dubova, Henry Conklin +2
Creativity is the ability to come up with novel ideas, a capacity crucial for human development and flourishing. Are large language models (LLMs) creative in the same way humans ar…
Large Language Models provide support for the parallelogram theory of analogy
Qiawen Ella Liu, Raja Marjieh, Jian-Qiao Zhu +2
Four-term word analogies (A:B::C:D) are classically modeled geometrically as parallelograms: adding the vector B-A+C produces D. Recent work suggests that this model poorly capture…
Why Human Guidance Matters in Collaborative Vibe Coding
Haoyu Hu, Raja Marjieh, Katherine M Collins +4
Writing code has been one of the most transformative ways for human societies to translate abstract ideas into tangible technologies. Modern AI is changing this process by enabling…
Characterizing the Interaction of Cultural Evolution Mechanisms in Experimental Social Networks
Raja Marjieh, Manuel Anglada-Tort, Thomas L. Griffiths +1
Understanding how cognitive and social mechanisms shape the evolution of complex artifacts such as songs is central to cultural evolution research. Social network topology (what ar…