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Large language models appear quite creative, often performing on par with the average human on creative tasks. However, research on LLM creativity has focused solely on \textit{products}, with little attention on the creative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Surabhi S. Nath , Peter Dayan , Claire Stevenson

This paper assesses the potential for large language models (LLMs) to serve as assistive tools in the creative writing process, by means of a single, in-depth case study. In the course of the study, we develop interactive and multi-voice…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Murray Shanahan , Catherine Clarke

Complex design tasks often require performing diverse actions in a specific order. To (semi-)autonomously accomplish these tasks, applications need to understand and learn a wide range of design procedures, i.e., Creative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Longqi Yang , Chen Fang , Hailin Jin , Walter Chang , Deborah Estrin

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

Computational creativity is an emerging branch of artificial intelligence that places computers in the center of the creative process. Broadly, creativity involves a generative step to produce many ideas and a selective step to determine…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Lav R. Varshney , Florian Pinel , Kush R. Varshney , Debarun Bhattacharjya , Angela Schoergendorfer , Yi-Min Chee

Simulation-based theory development has yielded powerful insights into collective performance by linking social structure to emergent outcomes, yet it has struggled to extend to collective creativity. Creativity is hard to capture purely at…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Mirza Nayeem Ahmed , Raiyan Abdul Baten

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

Creativity is perhaps what most differentiates humans from other species. It involves the capacity to shift between divergent and convergent modes of thought in response to task demands. Divergent thought has been characterized as the kind…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-03 Liane Gabora

Human creativity generates novel ideas to solve real-world problems. This thereby grants us the power to transform the surrounding world and extend our human attributes beyond what is currently possible. Creative ideas are not just new and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Georgi V. Georgiev , Danko D. Georgiev

Qualitative research is an approach to understanding social phenomenon based around human interpretation of data, particularly text. Probabilistic topic modelling is a machine learning approach that is also based around the analysis of text…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Marco Gillies , Dhiraj Murthy , Harry Brenton , Rapheal Olaniyan

Many creativity methods follow similar structures and principles. Design Patterns capture such invariants of proven good practices and discuss why, when and how creative thinking methods match various situations of collaboration. Moreover…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Christian Kohls

Generating an article automatically with computer program is a challenging task in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. In this paper, we target at essay generation, which takes as input a topic word in mind and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Bing Qin , Duyu Tang , Xinwei Geng , Dandan Ning , Jiahao Liu , Ting Liu

Promoting creativity is considered an important goal of education, but creativity is notoriously hard to measure.In this paper, we make the journey fromdefining a formal measure of creativity that is efficientlycomputable to applying the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Anastasia Kovalkov , Benjamin Paaßen , Avi Segal , Niels Pinkwart , Kobi Gal

Modeling Creativity (doctoral dissertation, 2013) explores how creativity can be represented using computational approaches. Our aim is to construct computer models that exhibit creativity in an artistic context, that is, that are capable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Tom De Smedt

This paper presents results of an ongoing interdisciplinary study to develop a computational theory of creativity for engineering design. Human design activities are surveyed, and popular computer-aided design methodologies are examined. It…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 V. V. Kryssanov , H. Tamaki , S. Kitamura

While the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in programming has been extensively studied, there is limited understanding of how LLMs support collaborative work where creativity plays a central role. Software design, as a collaborative and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Victoria Jackson , Grischa Liebel , Rafael Prikladnicki , Andre van der Hoek

Human beings possess the most sophisticated computational machinery in the known universe. We can understand language of rich descriptive power, and communicate in the same environment with astonishing clarity. Two of the many contributors…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Karthikeya Ramesh Kaushik , Andrea E. Martin

What does it mean to create a new concept, rather than retrieve a familiar one? Repeatedly sampling a generative model at the same prompt produces variations with similar styles and typical content. We propose that creativity is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mengye Ren

This paper provides a framework for evaluating creativity in co-creative systems: those that involve computer programs collaborating with human users on creative tasks. We situate co-creative systems within a broader context of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Pegah Karimi , Kazjon Grace , Mary Lou Maher , Nicholas Davis

Recent advances in the quantitative, computational methodology for the modeling and analysis of heterogeneous large-scale data are leading to new opportunities for understanding of human behaviors and faculties, including the manifestation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Doheum Park , Juhan Nam , Juyong Park