arXiv:2502. 13207v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the increasing use of large language models for creative tasks, their outputs often lack 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.
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.
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: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.
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.
arXiv:2510. 20091v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Creativity is often seen as a hallmark of human intelligence.
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.
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.
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.
arXiv:2510. 01171v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Post-training alignment often reduces LLM diversity, leading to a phenomenon known as mode collapse.
The paper investigates the use of Multi-Agent Debate (MAD) for creative generation tasks such as narrative writing and scientific ideation. It finds that MAD’s convergence-driven design suppresses output diversity across independent runs, creating a trade-off with creative tasks. To address this, the authors propose Creative-MAD, which introduces Cognitive Lens Assignment and Embedding-based Peer Selection to preserve agent divergence, and demonstrate that it improves lexical and semantic diversity while maintaining quality.
arXiv:2605. 10574v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As artificial intelligence advances, models are not improving uniformly.