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  1. Reflecting on Creative-Boundaries with an AI Co-Doodler

    Oct 4, 2026Samia Menon, Samyukta Jayaram, Chetan Goenka +1Computational CreativityHuman-AI Collaboration

    UC Berkeley Berkeley, California, USA

  2. Conditional Generation of Creative Chess Puzzles with Diffusion Models

    Sep 29, 2026Aatu Selkee, Severi Rissanen, Xidong Feng +2Masked Diffusion ModelsComputational Creativity

    Aalto University · Google DeepMind

  3. Reinforcing Agentic Creativity in Scientific Ideation with Night Science

    Sep 28, 2026Priyanka Kargupta, Silviu Cucerzan, Shweti Mahajan +4AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryScientific Hypothesis Generation

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Microsoft · Microsoft Research

  4. Decoupled Analysis-Judging: An Automated Creativity Evaluator Using LLMs in Complex Multi-step Creativity Tasks

    Sep 3, 2026Xiangyu Wang, Jin Wu, Xiaoyu Li +2Creativity AssessmentLLM-as-a-Judge

    Department of Educational Psychology, East China Normal University · 2Shanghai Institute of Artificial Intelligence for Education, East China Normal University · School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University +2

  5. Creative Generation via Multi-Agent Debate: Does Debate Suppress Diversity?

    Sep 1, 2026Tien Anh Nguyen, Khanh-Binh Nguyen, Van Dai Do +2Reasoning DiversityMulti-Agent Debate

    Deakin Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative, Deakin University, Australia

  6. CLIN: an Objective Framework for Evaluating Creativity in Short Persian Literary Text

    Aug 31, 2026Mohammad Reza Modarres, Armin Tourajmehr, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh +1Creativity AssessmentLLM Evaluation

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran · Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies, Khatam University, Iran · Cardiff University, United Kingdom

  7. Can LLM Agents Discover? Evaluating Creativity on ML Engineering Tasks

    Aug 30, 2026Shitanshu Bhushan, Yunxiang Zhang, Lu WangCreativity AssessmentLLM Agent Evaluation

    Computer Science and Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA

  8. MBA: Multimodal Benchmark and Agents for Real-World Business Ideation

    Aug 12, 2026Hojun Choi, Jaeyo Shin, Suin Lee +1AI Agent BenchmarksComputational Creativity

    KAIST AI, Republic of Korea

  9. Recipes for Creativity: Iterative Generation and Evaluation in Large Language Models

    Aug 7, 2026Rens Anderson, Tessa Verhoef, Amirhossein ZohrehvandCreativity AssessmentLLM Evaluation

    LIACS Leiden University Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden The Netherlands

  10. Sounding Canvas: Embedding Algorithms in Networked, Sensorial Sound Art

    Aug 3, 2026Luciano Ciamarone, Dora Motèque, Marco GiordanoComputational Creativity

    independent researcher · Dpt. of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics (DISIM), University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

  11. Creative Transformation in Literary Texts: Modelling Change Across Representational Levels

    Jul 30, 2026Ioana-Roxana Boriceanu, Liviu P. DinuComputational Literary StudiesComputational Creativity

    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science · University of Bucharest, Romania · Human Language Technologies Research Center

  12. AI and Its Impact on Creativity and Diversity: An Empirical Study of LLM-Generated Product Ideas

    Jul 30, 2026Christian Terwiesch, Lennart Meincke, Karan Girotra +3LLM PromptingComputational Creativity

    Operations, Information and Decisions Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania · WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management · Mack Institute for Innovation Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania +3

  13. Human diversity fuels collective creativity that large language models cannot simulate or sustain

    Jul 29, 2026Mengchen Dong, Hiromu YakuraComputational CreativityDiverse Text Generation

    Center for Humans and Machines, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

  14. AI as Friction for Reflection Support in Ideation

    Jul 29, 2026Janin Koch, Xiaohan Liao, Géry CasiezComputational CreativityHuman-AI Collaboration

    Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inria, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189 CRIStAL

  15. Unboxing Diffusion Models for the Arts: Interactive Model Bending and Practice-Based Explainability

    Jul 24, 2026Ahmed M. Abuzuraiq, Philippe PasquierExplainable Artificial IntelligenceComputational Creativity

    School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Surrey, Canada

  16. Why Large Language Models and Humans Converge and Diverge in Evaluating Creativity

    Jul 24, 2026Pengzhao Lyu, Yeun Joon Kim, Hanlin Xiao +1Creativity AssessmentLLM Evaluation

    Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1AG, United Kingdom · Institute of Metabolic Science, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom · Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom +2

  17. Can an AI System Be Creative? A Critical Perspective from Art and Engineering

    Jul 22, 2026Ivan Magrin-ChagnolleauComputational CreativityHuman-AI Co-Creation

    Affiliated Scholar, Chapman University, Orange, California

  18. Computational Humor with Multimodal LLMs: Methods, Datasets, Evaluation, and Challenges

    Jul 21, 2026Tuo Liang, Zhe Hu, Disheng Liu +2Multimodal Large Language ModelsComputational Creativity

    Case Western Reserve University · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  19. The Aura in the Machine: Genealogy and the Status of the Work of Art in the Generative Era

    Jul 20, 2026Giorgio PrestiComputational CreativityHuman-AI Co-Creation

    Department of Computer Science, Universit`a degli Studi di Milano, Via G. Celoria, Milan, 20133, Italy.

  20. Man, Machine, and Masterpiece: Artistic Ownership in the AI Era

    Jul 16, 2026Sofi Gjing Jovanovska, Kuntal Ghosh, Daniel Muhu Njenga +2Computational CreativityHuman-AI Co-Creation

    University of Siegen Siegen, Germany

  21. RAGthoven at SemEval-2026 Task 1: A Multi-Stage Pipeline Walks Into a Benchmark and Barely Clears the Bar

    Jul 14, 2026Marek Šuppa, Viktória Ondrejová, Lucia Ganajová +2LLM PromptingControllable Text Generation

    Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia · Cisco Systems · NaiveNeuron +1

  22. Beyond Fixed Representations: The Vocabulary and Verifier Gaps in Open-Ended AI

    Jul 10, 2026Yuan Cao, Haiqian YangComputational Creativity

  23. ArtMine: Discovering and Formalizing Artistic Processes

    Jul 9, 2026Kaustubh Kumar, Ashutosh Ranjan, Vivek Srivastava +2Computational CreativityHuman-AI Co-Creation

    1TCS Research, Pune, India · 2Indian Institue of Technology, Patna, India.

  24. Creativity from Friction: Human-AI Interaction for Exploratory Structural Design

    Jul 8, 2026Ricardo Maia Avelino, Rita Sevastjanova, Tom Van Mele +2Human-AI InteractionComputational Creativity

    Block Research Group, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, Switzerland · IVIA Lab, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  25. Why Pure Reasoning is Not Enough: Nature as the Source of Mathematical Innovation

    Jul 5, 2026Charanjit S. Jutla, Vimal SharmaAnalogical ReasoningMathematical Reasoning

    IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 · Independent Melbourne, FL 32940

  26. CreativityNeuro: Steering Language Model Weights to Improve Divergent Thinking and Reduce Mode Collapse

    Jul 1, 2026Samuel Schapiro, Core Francisco Park, Felix Sosa +1Language Model SteeringComputational Creativity

    Univeristy of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign · Center for Brain Science, Harvard University · CBS-NTT Program in Physics of Intelligence, Harvard University +2

  27. AGC-Bench: Measuring Artificial General Creativity

    Jul 1, 2026Roger Beaty, Vijeta Deshpande, Clin K. Y. Lai +9Creativity AssessmentLLM Evaluation

    1Pennsylvania State University · University of Massachusetts Lowell · University of Amsterdam +2

  28. The Human Creativity Benchmark

    Jun 29, 2026Aspen Hopkins, Allison Nulty, Alexandria Minetti +2Human Preference EvaluationCreativity Assessment

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA · Contra New York, New York, USA

  29. How LLMs See Creativity: Zero-Shot Scoring of Visual Creativity with Interpretable Reasoning

    Jun 29, 2026William Orwig, Roger E. BeatyCreativity AssessmentLLM-as-a-Judge

    Harvard University, Department of Psychology, Cambridge, MA, USA · Pennsylvania State University, Department of Psychology, University Park, PA, USA

  30. Model Collapse: On Recursion, Noise, and Uncharted Machine Visions

    Jun 22, 2026Violaine Boutet de MonvelModel CollapseGenerative Modeling

    LIRA, IRCAV · Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History · MPRG Impett – Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing

  31. Enhancing Creativity in 3D Generative Design via a TRIZ-Inspired Text-to-CAD Framework

    Jun 19, 2026Dongeon Lee, Leekyo Jeong, Soyoung Yoo +2LLM PromptingComputational Creativity

    Cho Chun Shik Graduate School of Mobility, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea · Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Republic of Korea · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, Republic of Korea +1

  32. Evolution & Foundation: AI Shares Creative Control

    Jun 15, 2026Dylan Banarse, Stephen Todd, William Latham +1Computational CreativityHuman-AI Co-Creation

    Google DeepMind · London Geometry Ltd. · School of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London

  33. Creative Collision: Directorial Persona Steering and Competition in Large Language Models

    Jun 15, 2026Subramanyam Sahoo, Justin ShenkLanguage Model SteeringPersonality Modeling in Language Models

    Horizon Research.

  34. Cognitive Trajectory Modeling: Quantifying Human-AI Co-Creation through Cognitively Grounded Interaction Trajectories

    Jun 13, 2026Nicholas DavisCognitive ModelingComputational Creativity

    Co-Creative AI Consulting Elyria, Ohio, USA

  35. Creative Integration: A Decidable Criterion of Creativity

    Jun 11, 2026Yoshinori NomuraCreativity AssessmentComputational Creativity

    Mirage Mountain Technologies

  36. IVIE: A Neuro-symbolic Approach to Incremental and Validated Generation of Interactive Fiction Worlds

    Jun 11, 2026Micaela Vaucher, Santiago Silveira, Santiago Góngora +1Computational CreativityProcedural Content Generation

  37. Under What Conditions Can a Machine Be Called Genuinely Creative?

    Jun 11, 2026Yong ZengComputational CreativityHuman-Centered AI

    Department of Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

  38. GENIE: A Fine-Grained Measure for Novelty

    Jun 11, 2026Ramya Namuduri, Manya Wadhwa, Anshun Asher Zheng +2LLM EvaluationLanguage Model Generation Evaluation

    The University of Texas at Austin · New York University

  39. Echoes of the Prior: A Computational Phenomenology of Forgetting

    Jun 10, 2026Gege Gao, Bernhard Schölkopf, Andreas GeigerComputational Creativity

    Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen, Germany · Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany · Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen, Tübingen AI Center, Germany

  40. IntElicit: Eliciting and Assessing Contextualized Creativity via Dialogue Policy Optimization

    Jun 10, 2026Mingjia Li, Jin Wu, Hong Qian +7Creativity AssessmentPolicy Optimization

    East China Normal University · Shanghai Innovation Institute

  41. Automated Creativity Evaluation of Language Models Across Open-Ended Tasks

    Jun 10, 2026Min Sen Tan, Zachary Kit Chun Choy, Syed Ali Redha Alsagoff +4Creativity AssessmentLLM Evaluation

    1Raffles Institution · College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University · 3Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University +1

  42. Seeing the Hivemind: A Consensus-Aware Interaction Technique for Mitigating AI Homogenization

    Jun 8, 2026Muhammad Haris Khan, Joel westerComputational CreativityDiverse Text Generation

    University of Copenhagen Denmark

  43. Introducing multiplex semantic networks as multifaceted representations of creative associative knowledge across multilingual samples

    Jun 8, 2026Edith Haim, Kurt Haim, Roger E. Beaty +2Creativity AssessmentCognitive Modeling

    CogNosco Lab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto, Trento · Department of Science Education, University of Education Upper Austria, Linz, Austria · Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA +1

  44. DEFINED: A Data-Efficient Computational Framework for Fine-Grained Creativity Assessment in Debate Scenarios

    Jun 5, 2026Tongzhou Yu, Mingjia Li, Hong Qian +6Creativity AssessmentComputational Creativity

    Nanjing University Nanjing, China · Shanghai Innovation Institute Shanghai, China · East China Normal University Shanghai, China

  45. Individual Gain, Collective Loss: Metacognitive Adaptation in AI-Assisted Creativity

    Jun 4, 2026Anna MikedaComputational CreativityHuman-AI Collaboration

    Glass Umbrella

  46. Before and After Temperature: A Distributional View of Creative LLM Generation

    May 31, 2026V. S. Raghu Parupudi, Harsha Ponnada, Aditi Kaushal +3Open-Ended GenerationCreativity Assessment

    University of California, San Diego · Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur · Delhi Technological University +3

  47. IDEAFix: Evaluation Framework for Creative Defixation Prompting in LLMs

    May 30, 2026F. Carichon, S. Sharma, M. Girard +2Creativity AssessmentLLM Evaluation

    McGill University, Montreal, Canada · Mila, Montreal, Canada · Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

  48. Interaction-Centered Intelligence: Toward an Interaction-Based Theory of Human-AI Co-Creation

    May 30, 2026Nicholas DavisHuman-AI InteractionComputational Creativity

    Co-Creative AI Consulting, Elyria, Ohio, USA

  49. Anchorless Diversification for Parallel LLM Ideation

    May 28, 2026Fares Nabil Ibrahim, Nafis Saami Azad, Raiyan Abdul BatenLLM Inference EfficiencyLLM Inference

    Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Computing, University of South Florida, USA

  50. Beyond One Path: Evaluating and Enhancing Divergent Thinking in Interactive LLM Agents

    May 27, 2026Jihyeong Park, Ingeol Baek, Jeonghyun Park +1LLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

    Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea

  51. Playing with Words, Improving with Rewards: Training Language Models for Creative Association

    May 27, 2026Vijeta Deshpande, Namrata Shivagunde, Sherin Muckatira +5Computational Creativity

    University of Massachusetts Lowell · Dartmouth College · University of Amsterdam +2

  52. Dream machine -- the next creative economy

    May 21, 2026Peter Woodbridge, John J. O'HareComputational CreativityAI Governance

  53. Self-Creative Text-to-Object Generation using Semantic-Aware Spatial Weighting

    May 19, 2026Yue Yu, Haibo Chen, Shuo Chen +2T2I GenerationComputational Creativity

    Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanjing University

  54. Multi-agent AI systems outperform human teams in creativity

    May 18, 2026Tiancheng Hu, Yixuan Jiang, Haotian Li +5Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 9DA, United Kingdom. · Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China. · The Psychometrics Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School, May University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1AG, United Kingdom. +4

  55. Dynamics of collective creativity in AI art competitions

    May 16, 2026Mason Youngblood, Jeff Nusz, Joel SimonCultural EvolutionComputational Creativity

    Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, NY, USA · Morphogen, CA, USA

  56. Seeking the Unfamiliar but Memorable: Conceptual Creativity as Meta-Learning

    May 15, 2026Mengye RenMeta-LearningComputational Creativity

    Agentic Learning AI Lab, New York University

  57. Assessing the Creativity of Large Language Models: Testing, Limits, and New Frontiers

    May 13, 2026Samuel Schapiro, Alexi Gladstone, Jonah Black +1Creativity AssessmentLLM Evaluation

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  58. IdeaForge: A Knowledge Graph-Grounded Multi-Agent Framework for Cross-Methodology Innovation Analysis and Patent Claim Generation

    May 13, 2026Joy BoseMulti-Agent LLM SystemsComputational Creativity

    Independent Researcher, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

  59. Ex Ante Evaluation of AI-Induced Idea Diversity Collapse

    May 7, 2026Nafis Saami Azad, Raiyan Abdul BatenLLM EvaluationComputational Creativity

    Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Computing University of South Florida Tampa, FL–33620, USA

  60. Calibrated Surprise: An Information-Theoretic Account of Creative Quality

    Apr 29, 2026Bo Zou, Chao XuCreativity AssessmentComputational Creativity