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Let's think outside the box: Exploring leap-of-thought in large language models with creative humor generation

Shanshan Zhong

Computer science - artificial intelligence, computer science - computation and language, computer science - computer vision and pattern recognition

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Chain-of-Thought (CoT) guides large language models (LLMs) to reason step-by-step, and can motivate their logical reasoning ability. While effective for logical tasks, CoT is not conducive to creative problem-solving which often requires out-of-box thoughts and is crucial for innovation advancements. In this paper, we explore the Leap-of-Thought (LoT) abilities within LLMs – a non-sequential, creative paradigm involving strong associations and knowledge leaps. To this end, we study LLMs on the

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creativity frameworks › psychological/cognitiveevaluates a creative feature › humorevaluation › automatic metricsevaluation › human evalevaluation › sentence-levelevaluation › creativity evaluationmodel used › ChatGPTmodel used › Medium (8-24)model used › Large (>32B)scope › creative trainingscope › prompt engineeringscope › technical researchrelated to creativity › related to creativity as a human ability

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Paper ID: 09f4ef98-41fa-4c8c-b69b-0194d73c35a9Added: 10/26/2025