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

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

    UC Berkeley Berkeley, California, USA

  2. DiVid: Diagnosing Dimension-Specific Diversity Collapse in Video Generation Models

    Oct 1, 2026Huanran Hu, Zihui Ren, Dingyi Yang +4Diversity CollapseVideo Generation

    Renmin University of China · Alibaba Group · Tianjin University

  3. Conditional Generation of Creative Chess Puzzles with Diffusion Models

    Sep 29, 2026Aatu Selkee, Severi Rissanen, Xidong Feng +2ChessDiffusion Models

    Aalto University · Google DeepMind

  4. Human-AI Collaboration: From Paradoxes to Patterns

    Sep 29, 2026Michael WeissHuman-Ai CollaborationHuman-Robot Collaboration

    Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

  5. Reinforcing Agentic Creativity in Scientific Ideation with Night Science

    Sep 28, 2026Priyanka Kargupta, Silviu Cucerzan, Shweti Mahajan +4Scientific IdeationCreativity

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Microsoft · Microsoft Research

  6. PainterBench: A Figural Divergent-Thinking Benchmark for Tool-Using Language Models

    Sep 28, 2026Shane K. A. Dalumura Hettige, Jonas OppenlaenderCreativityCanvas

    Computer Science and Engineering University of Oulu Oulu, Finland · Centre for Applied Computing University of Oulu Oulu, Finland

  7. Interpreting and Steering LLM Agents for Social Simulations

    Sep 14, 2026Jiayue Gaveal Fan, Arul Murugan, Shreyas Krishnan +1Scaling Improve Social SimulationLarge Language Model Agents

    1Data Innovation and AI Lab (DIAL), University of California, Berkeley · 2National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

  8. Enabling Creative Exploration for Vibe Design Agents

    Sep 14, 2026Yifan Zhang, Nghi D. Q. Bui, Georgios Evangelopoulos +1Interaction DesignVibe Coding

    Google

  9. PinDCO: Whole-Page Aware Dynamic Creative Optimization at Scale

    Sep 14, 2026Yu Hao, Yuchun Li, Peimeng Sui +5AdsCreativity

    Pinterest Inc.

  10. Unified Agentic Video Editing Across Levels of Complexity and Creativity

    Sep 14, 2026Surabhi S. Nath, Kim Ferres, Milan Petrović +1Video EditingAgentic

    Bertelsmann AI Hub · Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics · scieneers GmbH

  11. Measuring the Creativity of Frontier LLMs in Automated Research

    Sep 12, 2026Yiheng Zhao, Mengzhuo Chen, Chengming Hu +3CreativityResearch Automation

    Concordia University, Montreal, Canada · Independent Researcher · Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada +1

  12. MOONWALK: Mediating Operations with Intent-Evidence-Action Alignment Across Junior-Supervisor Review Workflows in Animation/VFX Pre-Production

    Sep 9, 2026Shih-Yu Lai, Wen-Fan Wang, Sai Ling +3Agentic Workflow DesignCreativity

    National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan · MoonShine Animation Studio, Taipei, Taiwan · Cornell Tech, New York City, USA +1

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

    Sep 3, 2026Xiangyu Wang, Jin Wu, Xiaoyu Li +2CreativityLlm-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

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

    Aug 31, 2026Mohammad Reza Modarres, Armin Tourajmehr, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh +1CreativityPersian

    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

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

    Aug 30, 2026Shitanshu Bhushan, Yunxiang Zhang, Lu WangCreativity

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

  16. FRAMEWORKERS: A Dynamic Multi-Agent Framework for AI-Generated Video Production

    Aug 30, 2026Zhendong Li, Lei Sun, Letian Shi +8Video AgentMulti-Agent Orchestration

    INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria · Snap Inc., New York, USA

  17. Creation begins with understanding: LLMs as strategy designers for privacy-preserving tabular data synthesis

    Aug 30, 2026Jinmeng Li, Quan Zhang, Hangting Ye +4Synthetic Tabular DataSynthetic Data

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Changchun, China · Broad College of Business, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia +2

  18. CreativeInstruct: Scalably Teaching LLMs to Balance Quality, Creativity, and Diversity

    Aug 7, 2026Ananya Sahu, Mohit Bansal, Elias Stengel-EskinCreativityNarrative Generation

    Columbia · UNC Chapel Hill · University of Texas at Austin

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

    Aug 7, 2026Rens Anderson, Tessa Verhoef, Amirhossein ZohrehvandCreativityLarge Language Model Evaluation

    LIACS Leiden University Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden The Netherlands

  20. Can Language Models Imagine Without Seeing? Ekphrasis: Measuring Visual Creative Ideation in Text-Only LLMs

    Aug 7, 2026Hongyu Luo, He Wang, Huihao Jing +6CreativityLanguage Modeling

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China

  21. Can MLLMs Decode the Creative Leap? Introducing C4 for Cross-Concept Understanding

    Aug 6, 2026Ming Wang, Yuqing Zhang, Tingna Xie +5CreativityLarge Language Model Decoding

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Liaoning, China · School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Shandong, China

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

    Jul 30, 2026Ioana-Roxana Boriceanu, Liviu P. DinuCreativityLiterature

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

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

    Jul 30, 2026Christian Terwiesch, Lennart Meincke, Karan Girotra +3Scientific IdeationCreativity

    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

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

    Jul 29, 2026Mengchen Dong, Hiromu YakuraCreativityDiversity

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

  25. Offline-to-Online Creative Optimization with Generative Models and Adaptive Testing

    Jul 26, 2026Kevin Lee, Benjamin Letham, Zhiyuan Jerry Lin +5CreativityGenerative Models

    University of Michigan · USA · Meta

  26. Plans Work in Mysterious Ways: Evaluating a Plan Mode for Spreadsheet Agents

    Jul 26, 2026Aayush Kumar, Avik Dutta, Sumit Gulwani +3SpreadsheetsComputer-Use Agents

    Microsoft *Bengaluru, India · Microsoft †Redmond, WA, USA · Microsoft ‡Cambridge, UK +1

  27. JarvisHub: An Open Harness for Canvas-Native Multimodal Creative Agents

    Jul 26, 2026Yunlong Lin, Zixu Lin, Zhaohu Xing +23Multimodal AgentsCreativity

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

    Jul 24, 2026Ahmed M. Abuzuraiq, Philippe PasquierText-To-Image Diffusion ModelsExplainable Artificial Intelligence

    School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Surrey, Canada

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

    Jul 24, 2026Pengzhao Lyu, Yeun Joon Kim, Hanlin Xiao +1CreativityLarge Language Model 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

  30. Toward Continuous Assurance for the Democratization of AI Agent Creation in Industry

    Jul 23, 2026Natan Levy, Harel BergerArtificial Intelligence AgentsGovernance

    School of Computer Science and Engineering · The Department of Computer and Software Engineering

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

    Jul 22, 2026Ivan Magrin-ChagnolleauCreativityArtificial Intelligence Systems

    Affiliated Scholar, Chapman University, Orange, California

  32. CURED: Creating, Understanding, and Repairing Errors Demonstrator

    Jul 22, 2026Nicholas Chandler, Sebastian Jäger, Philipp Jung +1Tabular DataCreativity

    1Berliner Hochschule für Technik · 2Einstein Center Digital Future

  33. I wanted it to feel more personal: Customization of social AI as AI individualism in practice

    Jul 20, 2026Marita Skjuve, Anna Grøndal Larsen, Asbjørn Følstad +2Complex SocietiesPersonalization

    SINTEF, Oslo, Norway · Boost.ai, Stavanger, Norway · SINTEF, Oslo, and University of Oslo, Norway +1

  34. Characterising AI Models for Cataloguing

    Jul 13, 2026Miguel Arana-Catania, Neil JefferiesCatalogsArtificial Intelligence Models

    University of Oxford, UK

  35. Navigating the Open-Source Model Ecosystem: An Empirical Study of Creator Practices in Artistic Image Generation

    Jul 12, 2026Yiluo Wei, Yupeng He, Qiming Ye +1Multi-Reference Image GenerationImage Generation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  36. Creativity, honesty and designed forgetting emerge in small hyperbolic language models

    Jul 10, 2026Kwan Soo Shin, In Seok Kang, Yunkyung MinSmall Large Language ModelsCreativity

    PolymathMinds Lab, Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Department of Chemical Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, and aSSIST University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Korean Educational Development Institute, Jincheon, Republic of Korea.

  37. GRE-Diff: Gaussian Room Embeddings for Structured Layout Diffusion

    Jul 9, 2026Jing Wang, Haoran Xiong, Zihao Yan +2Floor Plan GenerationCo-Design

    Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Visual Media and Multidimensional Intelligence, CSSE, Shenzhen University, China · School of Computer Science, University of Guelph, Canada

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

    Jul 8, 2026Ricardo Maia Avelino, Rita Sevastjanova, Tom Van Mele +2CreativityHuman-Ai Interaction

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

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

    Jul 1, 2026Samuel Schapiro, Core Francisco Park, Felix Sosa +1CreativityModel Weights

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

  40. AGC-Bench: Measuring Artificial General Creativity

    Jul 1, 2026Roger Beaty, Vijeta Deshpande, Clin K. Y. Lai +9CreativityGeneral Intelligence

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

  41. The Human Creativity Benchmark

    Jun 29, 2026Aspen Hopkins, Allison Nulty, Alexandria Minetti +2CreativityArtificial Intelligence Evaluation

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

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

    Jun 29, 2026William Orwig, Roger E. BeatyCreativityMultimodal Large Language Models

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

  43. Exploring the Value of Diverse LLM Explanations in Introductory Programming

    Jun 27, 2026Seth Bernstein, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen +4Ai-Assisted Programming TasksComputer Science

    Temple University Philadelphia, PA, United States · University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand · Aalto University Espoo, Finland

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

    Jun 19, 2026Dongeon Lee, Leekyo Jeong, Soyoung Yoo +2Computer-Aided Design ObjectsImage-To-Cad Generation

    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

  45. Bridging Creative Intent and Visual Quality: Creator-Driven Recurrent Video Generation with Agentic Feedback Loops

    Jun 17, 2026Denis Savytski, Aiden Lei, Heding Liu +4Video GenerationGenerative Artificial Intelligence

    Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, USA · The Harker School · Basis Independent Silicon Valley +1

  46. Evolution & Foundation: AI Shares Creative Control

    Jun 15, 2026Dylan Banarse, Stephen Todd, William Latham +1Artistic OwnershipCreativity

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

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

    Jun 13, 2026Nicholas DavisCognitive ScienceHuman-Ai Collaboration

    Co-Creative AI Consulting Elyria, Ohio, USA

  48. Creative Integration: A Decidable Criterion of Creativity

    Jun 11, 2026Yoshinori NomuraCreativityIntelligence

    Mirage Mountain Technologies

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

    Jun 11, 2026Micaela Vaucher, Santiago Silveira, Santiago Góngora +1Narrative GenerationNeuro-Symbolic Framework

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

    Jun 11, 2026Yong ZengCreativityHuman Agency

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

  51. GENIE: A Fine-Grained Measure for Novelty

    Jun 11, 2026Ramya Namuduri, Manya Wadhwa, Anshun Asher Zheng +2CreativityLarge Language Model Generation

    The University of Texas at Austin · New York University

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

    Jun 10, 2026Mingjia Li, Jin Wu, Hong Qian +7CreativityComputerized Adaptive Testing

    East China Normal University · Shanghai Innovation Institute

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

    Jun 10, 2026Min Sen Tan, Zachary Kit Chun Choy, Syed Ali Redha Alsagoff +4CreativityLarge Language Model Evaluation

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

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

    Jun 8, 2026Muhammad Haris Khan, Joel westerCreativityHuman-Ai Collaboration

    University of Copenhagen Denmark

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

    Jun 8, 2026Edith Haim, Kurt Haim, Roger E. Beaty +2CreativityCross-Cultural Variation

    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

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

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

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

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

    Jun 4, 2026Anna MikedaCreativityHuman-Ai Collaboration

    Glass Umbrella

  58. "I've Seen How This Goes": Characterizing Diversity via Progressive Conditional Surprise

    Jun 1, 2026Matthew Khoriaty, David Williams-King, Shi FengDiversityCreativity

    ERA Fellowship · George Washington University

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

    May 31, 2026V. S. Raghu Parupudi, Harsha Ponnada, Aditi Kaushal +3CreativityLarge Language Model Generation

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

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

    May 30, 2026F. Carichon, S. Sharma, M. Girard +2CreativityLarge Language Model Generation

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