A Causality-Aware Paradigm for Evaluating Creativity of Multimodal Large Language Models

Recently, numerous benchmarks have been developed to evaluate the logical reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). However, assessing the equally important creative capabilities of LLMs is challenging due to the subjective, diverse, and data-scarce nature of creativity, especially in mul...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1979. - 47(2025), 5 vom: 22. Mai, Seite 3830-3846
1. Verfasser: Huang, Zhongzhan (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Zhong, Shanshan, Zhou, Pan, Gao, Shanghua, Zitnik, Marinka, Lin, Liang
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2025
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
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