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Human languages provide efficient systems for expressing numerosities, but whether the sheer pressure to communicate is enough for numerical representations to arise in artificial agents, and whether the emergent codes resemble human…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Daniela Mihai , Lucas Weber , Francesca Franzon

The robustness of AI-content detection models against sophisticated adversarial strategies, such as paraphrasing or word switching, is a rising concern in natural language generation (NLG) applications. This study proposes ToBlend, a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Fan Huang , Haewoon Kwak , Jisun An

Planning safe robot motions in the presence of humans requires reliable forecasts of future human motion. However, simply predicting the most likely motion from prior interactions does not guarantee safety. Such forecasts fail to model the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Kushal Kedia , Prithwish Dan , Sanjiban Choudhury

Generative AI, i.e., the group of technologies that automatically generate visual or written content based on text prompts, has undergone a leap in complexity and become widely available within just a few years. Such technologies…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Nanna Inie , Jeanette Falk , Steven Tanimoto

Generative models, widely utilized in various applications, can often struggle with prompts corresponding to partial tokens. This struggle stems from tokenization, where partial tokens fall out of distribution during inference, leading to…

Mainstream creativity support design prioritizes compliant AI for seamless writing interactions, but concerns over inappropriate AI reliance highlight the need for designs fostering reflection on balanced AI and non-AI resource use.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hua Xuan Qin , Guangzhi Zhu , Mingming Fan , Pan Hui

Tracking Any Point (TAP) in a video is a challenging computer vision problem with many demonstrated applications in robotics, video editing, and 3D reconstruction. Existing methods for TAP rely heavily on complex tracking-specific inductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Artem Zholus , Carl Doersch , Yi Yang , Skanda Koppula , Viorica Patraucean , Xu Owen He , Ignacio Rocco , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Sarath Chandar , Ross Goroshin

Detecting when a neural sequence model does "interesting" computation is an open problem. The next token prediction loss is a poor indicator: Low loss can stem from trivially predictable sequences that are uninteresting, while high loss may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Vincent Herrmann , Róbert Csordás , Jürgen Schmidhuber

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 offers a new perspective on the limits of machine learning: the ceiling on progress is set not by model size or algorithm choice but by the information structure of the task itself. Code generation has progressed more reliably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zhimin Zhao

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) encounters limitations in efficiency and fairness within the realm of Procedural Content Generation (PCG) when human creators solely drive and bear responsibility for the generative process.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Zhiyu Lin , Upol Ehsan , Rohan Agarwal , Samihan Dani , Vidushi Vashishth , Mark Riedl

In recent years, machine learning, and in particular generative adversarial neural networks (GANs) and attention-based neural networks (transformers), have been successfully used to compose and generate music, both melodies and polyphonic…

With the growing popularity of generative AI for images, video, and music, we witnessed models rapidly improve in quality and performance. However, not much attention is paid towards enabling AI's ability to "be creative". In this study, we…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Naomi Imasato , Kazuki Miyazawa , Takayuki Nagai , Takato Horii

Recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) continue to attract the attention of researchers in different fields due to the wide range of applications devised to take advantage of their key features. Most recent GANs are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Mohammad Lataifeh , Xavier Carrasco , Ashraf Elnagar , Naveed Ahmed

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…

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The way we're thinking about generative AI right now is fundamentally individual. We see this not just in how users interact with models but also in how models are built, how they're benchmarked, and how commercial and research strategies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Daniel J. Singer , Luca Garzino Demo

Assessing artistic creativity has long challenged researchers, with traditional methods proving time-consuming. Recent studies have applied machine learning to evaluate creativity in drawings, but not paintings. Our research addresses this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zhehan Zhang , Meihua Qian , Li Luo , Qianyi Gao , Xianyong Wang , Ripon Saha , Xinxin Song

Advances in deep learning systems have allowed large models to match or surpass human accuracy on a number of skills such as image classification, basic programming, and standardized test taking. As the performance of the most capable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Sarah Pratt , Seth Blumberg , Pietro Kreitlon Carolino , Meredith Ringel Morris

Machine learning is the capacity of a computational system to learn structures from datasets in order to make predictions on newly seen data. Such an approach offers a significant advantage in music scenarios in which musicians can teach…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Rebecca Fiebrink , Baptiste Caramiaux

Recent neural approaches to data-to-text generation have mostly focused on improving content fidelity while lacking explicit control over writing styles (e.g., word choices, sentence structures). More traditional systems use templates to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Shuai Lin , Wentao Wang , Zichao Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Frank F. Xu , Eric Xing , Zhiting Hu