In my lab, I do an in-depth paper review (almost) every month. The topic is usually LLM Creativity (that’s the research group’s main interest!), but some months can be wildly different, depending on what the team is currently doing.
Here is the running list (to be updated regularly!):
September 2025 (Topic: Mechanistic Interpretability)
R. Chen, A. Arditi, H. Sleight, O. Evans, and J. Lindsey, “Persona Vectors: Monitoring and Controlling Character Traits in Language Models,” Sept. 05, 2025, arXiv: arXiv:2507.21509. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2507.21509.
June 2025 (LLM Creativity)
X. Lu et al., “AI as Humanity’s Salieri: Quantifying Linguistic Creativity of Language Models via Systematic Attribution of Machine Text against Web Text,” Jan. 12, 2025, arXiv: arXiv:2410.04265. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2410.04265.
April 2025 (LLM-as-a-judge)
J. Jung, F. Brahman, and Y. Choi, “Trust or Escalate: LLM Judges with Provable Guarantees for Human Agreement,” July 25, 2024, arXiv: arXiv:2407.18370. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2407.18370.
March 2025 (Protein Generation)
O. Queen et al., “ProCyon: A multimodal foundation model for protein phenotypes,” Dec. 15, 2024, bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2024.12.10.627665.
February 2025 (Optimization)
B. Li et al., “It’s Morphing Time: Unleashing the Potential of Multiple LLMs via Multi-objective Optimization,” Nov. 24, 2024, arXiv: arXiv:2407.00487. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2407.00487.
December 2024 (LLM Creativity)
L.-C. Lu, S.-J. Chen, T.-M. Pai, C.-H. Yu, H. Lee, and S.-H. Sun, “LLM Discussion: Enhancing the Creativity of Large Language Models via Discussion Framework and Role-Play,” Aug. 08, 2024, arXiv: arXiv:2405.06373. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2405.06373.
November 2024 (LLM Creativity)
- “Evaluating Creativity in Large Language Models through Creative Problem-Solving: A New Dataset and Benchmark,” presented at the ACL Rolling Review - June 2024, July 2024. Accessed: Oct. 22, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://openreview.net/forum?id=Hh3e3n0oiv Evaluating_Crativity.pdf Download
- M. Lee, “A Mathematical Investigation of Hallucination and Creativity in GPT Models,” Mathematics, vol. 11, no. 10, p. 2320, Jan. 2023, doi: 10.3390/math11102320. Mathematical_Investigation.pdf Download