arXiv AI
Jul 3
CreativityPrism: A Cross-Domain Evaluation Framework for Large Language Model Creativity
arXiv:2510. 20091v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Creativity is often seen as a hallmark of human intelligence.
Are LLMs becoming similarly creative? Evidence from three years of models
arXiv:2608. 19437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many benchmarks track Large Language Model (LLM) performance on tasks with verifiable answers, but less is known about how LLM performance is evolving on open-ended tasks, where creativity, originality and diversity may matter as much as quality.
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arXiv AI
Jun 11
Automated Creativity Evaluation of Language Models Across Open-Ended Tasks
arXiv:2606. 11762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in language understanding, reasoning, and generation, sparking growing interest in their creative potential.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 10
Automated Creativity Evaluation of Language Models Across Open-Ended Tasks
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in language understanding, reasoning, and generation, sparking growing interest in their creative potential. Realizing this potential requires systematic and scalable methods for evaluating creativity across diverse tasks.
arXiv Computation and Language
2d ago
Evaluating LLM Creativity through Long-Tail Performance
The paper proposes that creativity in large language models can be measured by performance on the long tail of a reference input-output distribution, using n‑gram absence from pretraining data as a novelty proxy. Across 15 benchmarks and 26 open‑weight models, the authors find that creativity benchmarks occupy further tail regions than standard benchmarks and that higher‑tail subsets better align with human creativity judgments. They introduce a new diagnostic, q@Tail(α), to assess mean task quality on the tail fraction of existing benchmarks, revealing significant potential for improving LLM creativity through stronger tail performance.
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 7
Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)
arXiv:2510.22954v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language models (LMs) often struggle to generate diverse, human-like creative content, raising concerns about the long-term homogenization of human...
arXiv AI
Aug 26
The Limits of Automatic Evaluation of Creativity in Large Language Models
The paper examines whether existing automatic methods can reliably assess creativity in text produced by large language models (LLMs). By collecting human ratings on 11 creativity dimensions for both human and AI short stories, the authors compare these judgments with automated metrics and LLM-as-a-Judge evaluations. The results show a significant misalignment: automated metrics and LLM judges favor AI-generated stories and show near-zero correlation with human assessments, revealing fundamental limitations in current computational approaches to evaluating creative text.
arXiv AI
Jun 16
LLM Jaggedness Unlocks Scientific Creativity
arXiv:2605. 10574v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As artificial intelligence advances, models are not improving uniformly.
arXiv AI
Aug 5
Assessing the Effect of Cross-Domain Mapping on Creativity in Humans and Large Language Models
arXiv:2603. 19087v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Creativity is the ability to come up with novel ideas, a capacity crucial for human development and flourishing.
arXiv AI
Aug 10
CreativeInstruct: Scalably Teaching LLMs to Balance Quality, Creativity, and Diversity
arXiv:2608. 07460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While post-training improves the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), it generally lowers their output diversity and creativity, negatively impacting tasks that explicitly require creativity (e.
arXiv AI
Jul 3
CreativityNeuro: Steering Language Model Weights to Improve Divergent Thinking and Reduce Mode Collapse
arXiv:2607. 01433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Divergent thinking is a crucial aspect of creativity, yet large language models (LLMs) tend to consistently generate similar responses to open-ended questions, in what has been termed the artificial hivemind effect.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 4
On the Diversity of Analogy Making in Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential for analogy making, a core cognitive capability that drives novelty and creativity. While prior research has extensively investigated the applications and underlying mechanisms of LLM-based analogy making, its output diversity remains largely unexplored, despite being essential for broadening cross-domain connections and fostering scientific innovation.
arXiv AI
Aug 10
Recipes for Creativity: Iterative Generation and Evaluation in Large Language Models
arXiv:2608. 07243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models are often evaluated through singular artifacts, whereas human creativity typically emerges through iterative generation, appraisal, and refinement.