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Creativity assessment in science and engineering is increasingly based on both human and AI judgment, but the cognitive processes and biases behind these evaluations remain poorly understood. We conducted two experiments examining how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Antonio Laverghetta , Tuhin Chakrabarty , Tom Hope , Jimmy Pronchick , Krupa Bhawsar , Roger E. Beaty

Creativity is one of the driving forces of human kind as it allows to break current understanding to envision new ideas, which may revolutionize entire fields of knowledge. Scientific research offers a challenging environment where to learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Fabio Massimo Zanzotto , Viviana Bono , Paola Vocca , Andrea Santilli , Danilo Croce , Giorgio Gambosi , Roberto Basili

Data-art exhibitions offer a unique and real-world setting to foster creative visualisation skills among students. They serve as real-world platform for students to display their work, bridging the gap between classroom learning and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Jonathan C. Roberts

Abductive reasoning, reasoning for inferring explanations for observations, is often mentioned in scientific, design-related and artistic contexts, but its understanding varies across these domains. This paper reviews how abductive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Abhinav Sood , Kazjon Grace , Stephen Wan , Cecile Paris

This paper outlines the implications of neural-level accounts of insight, and models of the conceptual interactions that underlie creativity, for a theory of cultural evolution. Since elements of human culture exhibit cumulative, adaptive,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-15 Liane Gabora

Computational creativity is a subfield of AI focused on developing and studying creative systems. Few academic studies analysing the behaviour of creative agents from a theoretical viewpoint have been proposed. The proposed frameworks are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Valerio Velardo , Mauro Vallati

The development of large language models (LLMs) capable of following instructions and engaging in conversational interactions sparked increased interest in their utilization across various support tools. We investigate the utility of modern…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Tuhin Chakrabarty , Vishakh Padmakumar , Faeze Brahman , Smaranda Muresan

Measuring machine creativity is one of the most fascinating challenges in Artificial Intelligence. This paper explores the possibility of using generative learning techniques for automatic assessment of creativity. The proposed solution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Giorgio Franceschelli , Mirco Musolesi

We examine, analyze, and compare four representative creativity measures--perplexity, LLM-as-a-Judge, the Creativity Index (CI; measuring n-gram overlap with web corpora), and syntactic templates (detecting repetition of common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Li-Chun Lu , Miri Liu , Pin-Chun Lu , Yufei Tian , Shao-Hua Sun , Nanyun Peng

Molecule generation requires satisfying multiple chemical and biological constraints while searching a large and structured chemical space. This makes it a non-binary problem, where effective models must identify non-obvious solutions under…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Wen Tao , Yiwei Wang , Peng Zhou , Bryan Hooi , Wanlong Fang , Tianle Zhang , Xiao Luo , Yuansheng Liu , Alvin Chan

We developed a self-assessment tool for computing students in higher education to measure their Creative Problem Solving skills. Our survey encompasses 7 dimensions of creativity, based on existing validated scales and conducted focus…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Wouter Groeneveld , Lynn Van den Broeck , Joost Vennekens , Kris Aerts

Although capable of generating creative text, Large Language Models (LLMs) are poor judges of what constitutes "creativity". In this work, we show that we can leverage this knowledge of how to write creatively in order to better judge what…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Matthew Lyle Olson , Neale Ratzlaff , Musashi Hinck , Shao-yen Tseng , Vasudev Lal

Several authors have proposed that a large number of unusual combinations of cited references in a paper point to its high creative potential (or novelty). However, it is still not clear whether the number of unusual combinations can really…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Iman Tahamtan , Lutz Bornmann

Storytelling has always been vital for human nature. From ancient times, humans have used stories for several objectives including entertainment, advertisement, and education. Various analyses have been conducted by researchers and creators…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yusuke Mori , Hiroaki Yamane , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

This paper presents a computational approach to modelling group creativity. It presents an analysis of two studies of group creativity selected from different research cultures and identifies a common theme ("idea build-up") that is then…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Ricardo Sosa , Andy M. Connor

Modelling the creativity that takes place in social settings presents a range of theoretical challenges. Mel Rhodes's classic "4Ps" of creativity, the "Person, Process, Product, and Press," offer an initial typology. Here, Rhodes's ideas…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Joseph Corneli

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and in particular generative models, are transformative tools for knowledge work. They problematise notions of creativity, originality, plagiarism, the attribution of credit, and copyright ownership. Critics of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Advait Sarkar

In the field of natural language processing, the rapid development of large language model (LLM) has attracted more and more attention. LLMs have shown a high level of creativity in various tasks, but the methods for assessing such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yunpu Zhao , Rui Zhang , Wenyi Li , Di Huang , Jiaming Guo , Shaohui Peng , Yifan Hao , Yuanbo Wen , Xing Hu , Zidong Du , Qi Guo , Ling Li , Yunji Chen

With the advancement of science and technology, the philosophy of creativity has undergone significant reinterpretation. This paper investigates contemporary research in the fields of psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and the philosophy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Shengyi Xie

Recent machine learning techniques can be modified to produce creative results. Those results did not exist before; it is not a trivial combination of the data which was fed into the machine learning system. The obtained results come in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-15 Martin Thoma