Stanford paper on boosting LLM creativity via cross-domain analogy accepted at NeurIPS 2026
james_y_zou · x · 2026-09-26
James Zou's team's paper "Increasing LLM creativity through analogical reasoning" is accepted at NeurIPS 2026. The core idea: the best scientific ideas often come from cross-domain analogies, so the authors teach LLMs to structurally map ideas across unexpected fields, generating over 2× more diverse and new SOTA solutions.
Examples of the analogies used: cell-cell communication ↔ telecommunications; drug response ↔ consumer response to policy change.
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