[Preprint] Combinatorial Creativity: A New Frontier in Generalization Abilities
Understanding the creativity of LLMs
Sep 25, 2025
Bio
Interdisciplinary scholar studying the science of intelligence.
Currently
Founding scientist at Prior Computers, the machine psychology company.
Previously
Researcher at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley.
Undergrad in CS at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Select Publications
- S. Schapiro, S. Shashidhar, A. Gladstone, J. Black, R. Moon, D. Hakkani-Tur, L. R. Varshney, Combinatorial Creativity: A New Frontier in Generalization Abilities, Under Review at 16th International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026.
- S. Schapiro, J. Black, L. R. Varshney, Transformational Creativity in Science: A Graphical Theory, in the Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity, Jun 23-27, Campinas, Brazil. [Best Short Paper Award]
- A. Sanyal, S. Schapiro, S. Shashidhar, R. Moon, L. R. Varshney, D. Hakkani-Tur, Spark: A System for Scientifically Creative Idea Generation, in the Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity, Jun 23-27, Campinas, Brazil.
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