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Characterising the creative process in humans and large language models

Surabhi S. Nath

Computer science - human-computer interaction, computer science - artificial intelligence, computer science - computation and language, quantitative biology - neurons and cognition

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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 \textit{process}. Process analyses of human creativity often require hand-coded categories or exploit response times, which do not apply to LLMs. We provide an automated method to characterise how humans and LLMs explore semantic spaces on the Alternate Uses Task, and contr

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Paper ID: 291f9b9e-b1ba-43aa-820a-649c5b25f394Added: 10/26/2025