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Artificial intelligence has, so far, largely automated routine tasks, but what does it mean for the future of work if Large Language Models (LLMs) show creativity comparable to humans? To measure the creativity of LLMs holistically, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Luning Sun , Yuzhuo Yuan , Yuan Yao , Yanyan Li , Hao Zhang , Xing Xie , Xiting Wang , Fang Luo , David Stillwell

Much work has been done in understanding human creativity and defining measures to evaluate creativity. This is necessary mainly for the reason of having an objective and automatic way of quantifying creative artifacts. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Disha Shrivastava , Saneem Ahmed CG , Anirban Laha , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

Reference-free metrics like self-perplexity are strongly biased against creative text generation. We propose the Confidence Score (CS), derived from a model's output probability distribution, as a less biased alternative. Experiments on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 V. S. Raghu Parupudi

Creativity is a fundamental aspect of intelligence, involving the ability to generate novel and appropriate solutions across diverse contexts. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have been extensively evaluated for their creative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Xinyu Fang , Zhijian Chen , Kai Lan , Lixin Ma , Shengyuan Ding , Yingji Liang , Xiangyu Zhao , Farong Wen , Zicheng Zhang , Guofeng Zhang , Haodong Duan , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin

Evaluating the creativity of large language models (LLMs) in story writing is difficult because LLM-generated stories could seemingly look creative but be very similar to some existing stories in their huge and proprietary training corpus.…

While Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in scientific tasks such as literature analysis and experimental design (e.g., accurately extracting key findings from papers or generating coherent experimental…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Kai Ruan , Xuan Wang , Jixiang Hong , Peng Wang , Yang Liu , Hao Sun

Creativity is a complex, multi-faceted concept encompassing a variety of related aspects, abilities, properties and behaviours. If we wish to study creativity scientifically, then a tractable and well-articulated model of creativity is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Anna Jordanous , Bill Keller

Modern large language models (LLMs) excel at objective tasks such as evaluating mathematical reasoning and factual accuracy, yet they falter when faced with the nuanced, subjective nature of assessing creativity. In this work, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Vanya Bannihatti Kumar , Divyanshu Goyal , Akhil Eppa , Neel Bhandari

Creativity in artificial intelligence is most often addressed through evaluative frameworks that aim to measure novelty, diversity, or usefulness in generated outputs. While such approaches have provided valuable insights into the behavior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Corina Chutaux

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in verbal creative tasks. However, previous assessments of the creative capabilities of LLMs remain weakly grounded in human creativity theory and are thus hard to interpret. The widely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Kumiko Nakajima , Jan Zuiderveld , Sandro Pezzelle

This paper investigates whether large language models (LLMs) show agreement in assessing creativity in responses to the Alternative Uses Test (AUT). While LLMs are increasingly used to evaluate creative content, previous studies have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Abdullah Al Rabeyah , Fabrício Góes , Marco Volpe , Talles Medeiros

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for ideation and scientific discovery, it is important to evaluate their ability to generate novel output. Prior work evaluates novelty as originality with respect to model training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Vishakh Padmakumar , Chen Yueh-Han , Jane Pan , Valerie Chen , He He

Creativity has long been considered one of the most difficult aspect of human intelligence for AI to mimic. However, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, has raised questions about whether AI can match or even surpass…

Human-defined creativity is highly abstract, posing a challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to comprehend and assess creativity that aligns with human judgments. The absence of an existing benchmark further exacerbates this…

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

Large language models (LLMs), particularly when integrated into agentic systems, have demonstrated human- and even superhuman-level performance across multiple domains. Whether these systems can truly be considered creative, however,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Giorgio Franceschelli , Mirco Musolesi

Can we derive computational metrics to quantify visual creativity in drawings across intelligent agents, while accounting for inherent differences in technical skill and style? To answer this, we curate a novel dataset consisting of 1338…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Surabhi S Nath , Guiomar del Cuvillo y Schröder , Claire E. Stevenson

We argue that uncertainty is a key and understudied limitation of LLMs' performance in creative writing, which is often characterized as trite and clich\'e-ridden. Literary theory identifies uncertainty as a necessary condition for creative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Peiqi Sui

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant limitations in understanding creative content, as demonstrated by Hessel et al. (2023)'s influential work on the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest (NYCCC). Their study exposed a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Kuan Lok Zhou , Jiayi Chen , Siddharth Suresh , Reuben Narad , Timothy T. Rogers , Lalit K Jain , Robert D Nowak , Bob Mankoff , Jifan Zhang

Research on emergent patterns in Large Language Models (LLMs) has gained significant traction in both psychology and artificial intelligence, motivating the need for a comprehensive review that offers a synthesis of this complex landscape.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Zhisheng Tang , Mayank Kejriwal