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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

Analogy is one of the core capacities of human cognition; when faced with new situations, we often transfer prior experience from other domains. Most work on computational analogy relies heavily on complex, manually crafted input. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Shahar Jacob , Chen Shani , Dafna Shahaf

The ability to combine existing concepts into novel ideas stands as a fundamental hallmark of human intelligence. Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like GPT-4V and DALLE-3 have sparked debate about whether their outputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Yongqian Peng , Yuxi Ma , Mengmeng Wang , Yuxuan Wang , Yizhou Wang , Chi Zhang , Yixin Zhu , Zilong Zheng

As LLMs become increasingly prevalent, it is interesting to consider how ``creative'' these models can be. From cognitive science, creativity consists of at least two key characteristics: \emph{convergent} thinking (purposefulness to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yining Lu , Dixuan Wang , Tianjian Li , Dongwei Jiang , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Meng Jiang , Daniel Khashabi

Evaluating creative text generation remains a challenge because existing reference-based metrics fail to capture the subjective nature of creativity. We propose a structured evaluation framework for AI story generation comprising four…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Pharath Sathya , Yin Jou Huang , Fei Cheng

Creativity is the ability to produce novel, useful, and surprising ideas, and has been widely studied as a crucial aspect of human cognition. Machine creativity on the other hand has been a long-standing challenge. With the rise of advanced…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mete Ismayilzada , Debjit Paul , Antoine Bosselut , Lonneke van der Plas

Artificial Intelligence holds significant potential to enhance human creativity. However, achieving this vision requires a clearer understanding of how such enhancement can be effectively realized. Drawing on a relational and distributed…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Andrea Gaggioli , Sabrina Bartolotta , Andrea Ubaldi , Katusha Gerardini , Eleonora Diletta Sarcinella , Alice Chirico

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for creative tasks such as literary translation. Yet translational creativity remains underexplored and is rarely evaluated at scale, while source-text comprehension is typically studied in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ran Zhang , Steffen Eger , Arda Tezcan , Wei Zhao , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Lieve Macken

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.…

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

Creativity serves as a cornerstone for societal progress and innovation. With the rise of advanced generative AI models capable of tasks once reserved for human creativity, the study of AI's creative potential becomes imperative for its…

A key objective in artificial intelligence (AI) development is to create systems that match or surpass human creativity. Although current AI models perform well across diverse creative tasks, it remains unclear whether these achievements…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Man Zhang , Ying Li , Yang Peng , Yijia Sun , Wenxin Guo , Huiqing Hu , Shi Chen , Qingbai Zhao

Foundation models that are capable of automating cognitive tasks represent a pivotal technological shift, yet their societal implications remain unclear. These systems promise exciting advances, yet they also risk flooding our information…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Judy Hanwen Shen , Carlos Guestrin

As artificial intelligence advances, models are not improving uniformly. Instead, progress unfolds in a jagged fashion, with capabilities growing unevenly across tasks, domains, and model scales. In this work, we examine this dynamic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shray Mathur , J. Anibal Boscoboinik , Esther H. R. Tsai , Kevin G. Yager

In recent years, Multi-modal Foundation Models (MFMs) and Embodied Artificial Intelligence (EAI) have been advancing side by side at an unprecedented pace. The integration of the two has garnered significant attention from the AI research…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Min Zhang , Xian Fu , Jianye Hao , Peilong Han , Hao Zhang , Lei Shi , Hongyao Tang , Yan Zheng

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

This paper demonstrates emergence of computational creativity in the field of music. Different aspects of creativity such as producer, process, product and press are studied and formulated. Different notions of computational creativity such…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Subodh Deolekar , Siby Abraham

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

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

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have rapidly advanced in perception and reasoning; however, it remains unclear whether these capabilities generalize to discovering visually grounded solutions in open-ended environments, beyond pattern…