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With the continuous evolution and refinement of LLMs, they are endowed with impressive logical reasoning or vertical thinking capabilities. But can they think out of the box? Do they possess proficient lateral thinking abilities? Following…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shulin Huang , Shirong Ma , Yinghui Li , Mengzuo Huang , Wuhe Zou , Weidong Zhang , Hai-Tao Zheng

What constitutes human creativity, and is it possible for computers to exhibit genuine creativity? We argue that achieving human-level intelligence in computers, or so-called Artificial General Intelligence, necessitates attaining also…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Solve Sæbø , Helge Brovold

The following paper introduces a general linguistic creativity test for humans and Large Language Models (LLMs). The test consists of various tasks aimed at assessing their ability to generate new original words and phrases based on word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Anca Dinu , Andra-Maria Florescu , Alina Resceanu

Recent advances in large language models have led to strong performance on reasoning and environment-interaction tasks, yet their ability for creative problem-solving remains underexplored. We study this capability through the lens of…

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

AI foundation models have the capability to produce a wide array of responses to a single prompt, a feature that is highly beneficial in software engineering to generate diverse code solutions. However, this advantage introduces a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Scott Blyth , Markus Wagner , Christoph Treude

There are many philosophies and theories on what creativity is and how it works, but one popular idea is that of variations on a theme and intersection of concepts. This literature review explores philosophical proposals of how creativity…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-25 Rohan Agarwal

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

This paper explores the attributes necessary to determine the creative merit of intermediate artifacts produced during a computational co-creative process (CCC) in which a human and an artificial intelligence system collaborate in the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Juan Salamanca , Daniel Gómez-Marín , Sergi Jordà

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

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

The evaluation of LLMs' creativity represents a crucial research domain, though challenges such as data contamination and costly human assessments often impede progress. Drawing inspiration from human creativity assessment, we propose PACE,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Ziliang Qiu , Renfen Hu

Creative thinking is a fundamental aspect of human cognition, and divergent thinking-the capacity to generate novel and varied ideas-is widely regarded as its core generative engine. Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated…

Dual process models of cognition suggest there are two kinds of thought: rapid, automatic Type 1 processes, and effortful, controlled Type 2 processes. Models of creative thinking also distinguish between two sets of processes: those…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-17 Paul Sowden , Andrew Pringle , Liane Gabora

Compositionality is a critical capability in Text-to-Image (T2I) models, as it reflects their ability to understand and combine multiple concepts from text descriptions. Existing evaluations of compositional capability rely heavily on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xindi Wu , Dingli Yu , Yangsibo Huang , Olga Russakovsky , Sanjeev Arora

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

Humans understand the world through the integration of multiple sensory modalities, enabling them to perceive, reason about, and imagine dynamic physical processes. Inspired by this capability, multimodal foundation models (MFMs) have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xuehai He

Recent advances in unified multimodal models (UMM) have demonstrated remarkable progress in both understanding and generation tasks. However, whether these two capabilities are genuinely aligned and integrated within a single model remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Chenlong Wang , Yuhang Chen , Zhihan Hu , Dongping Chen , Wenhu Chen , Sarah Wiegreffe , Tianyi Zhou

Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing several areas of Artificial Intelligence. One of the most remarkable applications is creative writing, e.g., poetry or storytelling: the generated outputs are often of astonishing quality.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Giorgio Franceschelli , Mirco Musolesi

Key doctrines, including novelty (patent), originality (copyright), and distinctiveness (trademark), turn on a shared empirical question: whether a body of work is meaningfully distinct from a relevant reference class. Yet analyses…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Anirban Mukherjee , Hannah Hanwen Chang