Spark: A System for Scientifically Creative Idea Generation

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Main Authors: Sanyal, Aishik, Schapiro, Samuel, Shashidhar, Sumuk, Moon, Royce, Varshney, Lav R., Hakkani-Tur, Dilek
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Published: 2025
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author Sanyal, Aishik
Schapiro, Samuel
Shashidhar, Sumuk
Moon, Royce
Varshney, Lav R.
Hakkani-Tur, Dilek
author_facet Sanyal, Aishik
Schapiro, Samuel
Shashidhar, Sumuk
Moon, Royce
Varshney, Lav R.
Hakkani-Tur, Dilek
contents Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown promising abilities to generate novel research ideas in science, a direction which coincides with many foundational principles in computational creativity (CC). In light of these developments, we present an idea generation system named Spark that couples retrieval-augmented idea generation using LLMs with a reviewer model named Judge trained on 600K scientific reviews from OpenReview. Our work is both a system demonstration and intended to inspire other CC researchers to explore grounding the generation and evaluation of scientific ideas within foundational CC principles. To this end, we release the annotated dataset used to train Judge, inviting other researchers to explore the use of LLMs for idea generation and creative evaluations.
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spellingShingle Spark: A System for Scientifically Creative Idea Generation
Sanyal, Aishik
Schapiro, Samuel
Shashidhar, Sumuk
Moon, Royce
Varshney, Lav R.
Hakkani-Tur, Dilek
Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown promising abilities to generate novel research ideas in science, a direction which coincides with many foundational principles in computational creativity (CC). In light of these developments, we present an idea generation system named Spark that couples retrieval-augmented idea generation using LLMs with a reviewer model named Judge trained on 600K scientific reviews from OpenReview. Our work is both a system demonstration and intended to inspire other CC researchers to explore grounding the generation and evaluation of scientific ideas within foundational CC principles. To this end, we release the annotated dataset used to train Judge, inviting other researchers to explore the use of LLMs for idea generation and creative evaluations.
title Spark: A System for Scientifically Creative Idea Generation
topic Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20090