Seminars relevant to Informatics

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DESCRIPTION;LANGUAGE=en-US:Dear all\,\n\nPlease attend our joint ILCC/ CDT 
 NLP seminar talk by Mete Ismayilzada \, on October 30\, 2026 at 11:00-12:0
 0.\n\nSpeaker: Mete Ismayilzada <https://mete.is/> \, EPFL\, USI\n\nhttps:
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 ive? It Depends on What You Measure\n\nAbstract: Are large language models
  creative? I argue the answer depends almost entirely on the level at whic
 h creativity is measured. At the level of the product\, our comparison of 
 short-story writing across a population of LLMs and people finds models st
 ylistically complex but short on novelty\, surprise\, and diversity\, dime
 nsions that we can improve directly within preference alignment. At the le
 vel of the process\, we show that frontier models can retrieve the right f
 acts yet fail to form the non-obvious connections between them\, a gap pro
 duct metrics may not capture. I argue that neither level suffices on its o
 wn: a full account requires both\, and Boden's distinction between combina
 tional\, exploratory\, and transformational creativity gives us a conceptu
 ally sharper framework to characterize them together\, especially for scie
 ntific discovery\, where breakthroughs often come from transformational id
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SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-US:ILCC/ CDT NLP Seminar: Mete Ismayilzada - Are LLMs C
 reative? It Depends on What You Measure
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