The Limits of Automatic Evaluation of Creativity in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.23705 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-08-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-08-24

Updated: 2026-08-27

Code: https://github.com/pante31/LLM

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• LLM-as-a-Judge — 31× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Perplexity — 31× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Creativity Index — 12× in this paper
• Alignment — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Expectation-Adjusted Distinct — 5× in this paper
• LLM judge — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 4× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Redundancy — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Lexical Diversity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Artificial Intelligence — 2× in this paper
• Homogenization — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Human-in-the-Loop — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Template Rate — 2× in this paper
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Algorithmic Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Resource Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents
• Can AI Be as Creative as Humans?
• On the Creativity of AI Agents
• DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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