Creative Preference Optimization

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Main Authors: Ismayilzada, Mete, Laverghetta Jr., Antonio, Luchini, Simone A., Patel, Reet, Bosselut, Antoine, van der Plas, Lonneke, Beaty, Roger
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Published: 2025
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author Ismayilzada, Mete
Laverghetta Jr., Antonio
Luchini, Simone A.
Patel, Reet
Bosselut, Antoine
van der Plas, Lonneke
Beaty, Roger
author_facet Ismayilzada, Mete
Laverghetta Jr., Antonio
Luchini, Simone A.
Patel, Reet
Bosselut, Antoine
van der Plas, Lonneke
Beaty, Roger
contents While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across natural language generation tasks, their ability to generate truly creative content-characterized by novelty, diversity, surprise, and quality-remains limited. Existing methods for enhancing LLM creativity often focus narrowly on diversity or specific tasks, failing to address creativity's multifaceted nature in a generalizable way. In this work, we propose Creative Preference Optimization (CrPO), a novel alignment method that injects signals from multiple creativity dimensions into the preference optimization objective in a modular fashion. We train and evaluate creativity-augmented versions of several models using CrPO and MuCE, a new large-scale human preference dataset spanning over 200,000 human-generated responses and ratings from more than 30 psychological creativity assessments. Our models outperform strong baselines, including GPT-4o, on both automated and human evaluations, producing more novel, diverse, and surprising generations while maintaining high output quality. Additional evaluations on NoveltyBench further confirm the generalizability of our approach. Together, our results demonstrate that directly optimizing for creativity within preference frameworks is a promising direction for advancing the creative capabilities of LLMs without compromising output quality.
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spellingShingle Creative Preference Optimization
Ismayilzada, Mete
Laverghetta Jr., Antonio
Luchini, Simone A.
Patel, Reet
Bosselut, Antoine
van der Plas, Lonneke
Beaty, Roger
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across natural language generation tasks, their ability to generate truly creative content-characterized by novelty, diversity, surprise, and quality-remains limited. Existing methods for enhancing LLM creativity often focus narrowly on diversity or specific tasks, failing to address creativity's multifaceted nature in a generalizable way. In this work, we propose Creative Preference Optimization (CrPO), a novel alignment method that injects signals from multiple creativity dimensions into the preference optimization objective in a modular fashion. We train and evaluate creativity-augmented versions of several models using CrPO and MuCE, a new large-scale human preference dataset spanning over 200,000 human-generated responses and ratings from more than 30 psychological creativity assessments. Our models outperform strong baselines, including GPT-4o, on both automated and human evaluations, producing more novel, diverse, and surprising generations while maintaining high output quality. Additional evaluations on NoveltyBench further confirm the generalizability of our approach. Together, our results demonstrate that directly optimizing for creativity within preference frameworks is a promising direction for advancing the creative capabilities of LLMs without compromising output quality.
title Creative Preference Optimization
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14442