CreativeInstruct: Scalably Teaching LLMs to Balance Quality, Creativity, and Diversity
Quick summary
arXiv:2608.07460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While post-training improves the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), it generally lowers their output diversity and creativity, negatively impacting tasks that explicitly require creativity (e.g., story generation) as well as those that require it implicitly, e.g., reinforcement learning (RL). We instead propose CreativeInstruct, a scalable instruction-tuning method that teaches LLMs to balance creative, base-model-like generations with the quality of post-trained models, by learning to inject special [StartCreativity] spans that bias
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.07460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While post-training improves the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), it generally lowers their output diversity and creativity, negatively impacting tasks that explicitly require creativity (e.g., story generation) as well as those that require it implicitly, e.g., reinforcement learning (RL).
- We instead propose CreativeInstruct, a scalable instruction-tuning method that teaches LLMs to balance creative, base-model-like generations with the quality of post-trained models, by learning to inject special [StartCreativity] spans that bias
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“CreativeInstruct: Scalably Teaching LLMs to Balance Quality, Creativity, and Diversity” should be evaluated beyond branding and benchmark scores. Its practical importance will emerge in task accuracy, latency, unit cost, safety and integration with real workflows.

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