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.
By Ananya Sahu, Mohit Bansal, Elias Stengel-Eskin
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: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.
By Min Sen Tan, Zachary Kit Chun Choy, Syed Ali Redha Alsagoff, Nadya Yuki Wangsajaya, Mohor Banerjee, Swaagat Bikash Saikia, Alvin Chan
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.
By Rens Anderson, Tessa Verhoef, Amirhossein Zohrehvand
arXiv:2510. 20091v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Creativity is often seen as a hallmark of human intelligence.
By Zhaoyi Joey Hou, Bowei Alvin Zhang, Yining Lu, Bhiman Kumar Baghel, Anneliese Brei, Ximing Lu, Meng Jiang, Faeze Brahman, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Haw-Shiuan Chang, Daniel Khashabi, Xiang Lorraine Li
arXiv:2603. 11863v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The saturation of high-quality pre-training data has shifted research focus toward evolutionary systems capable of continuously generating novel artifacts, leading to the success of AlphaEvolve.
By Zi-Han Wang, Lam Nguyen, Zhengyang Zhao, Mengyue Yang, Chengwei Qin, Yujiu Yang, Linyi Yang
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.
By Samuel Schapiro, Core Francisco Park, Felix Sosa, Lav R. Varshney
arXiv:2605. 17064v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models are optimized for instruction following and agentic tasks remain poorly aligned with the requirements of high-quality creative writing.
By Jan Zierstek, Matteo Batelic, Maya Medjad, Tim Sch\"onenberger
arXiv:2510. 01171v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Post-training alignment often reduces LLM diversity, leading to a phenomenon known as mode collapse.
By Jiayi Zhang, Simon Yu, Derek Chong, Anthony Sicilia, Michael R. Tomz, Christopher D. Manning, Weiyan Shi
arXiv:2605. 10574v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As artificial intelligence advances, models are not improving uniformly.
By Shray Mathur, J. Anibal Boscoboinik, Esther H. R. Tsai, Kevin G. Yager
arXiv:2607. 23696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ad creative optimization is increasingly constrained by evaluation rather than generation.
By Kevin Lee, Benjamin Letham, Zhiyuan Jerry Lin, Elodie Samson, Eric Onofrey, Poppy Zhang, Shawndra Hill, Eytan Bakshy
arXiv:2511. 19314v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Information-seeking is a core capability for AI agents, requiring them to gather and reason over tool-generated information across long trajectories.
By Jaewoo Lee, Archiki Prasad, Justin Chih-Yao Chen, Zaid Khan, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Mohit Bansal