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arxiv: 2607.01433 · v1 · pith:XPHUTIATnew · submitted 2026-07-01 · 💻 cs.AI · cs.LG

CreativityNeuro: Steering Language Model Weights to Improve Divergent Thinking and Reduce Mode Collapse

Samuel Schapiro , Core Francisco Park , Felix Sosa , Lav R. Varshney This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.AI cs.LG
keywords creativitydivergent thinkinglarge language modelsweight steeringmode collapsecontrastive methodartificial hivemind
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Contrastive weight steering improves divergent thinking in language models and reduces mode collapse.

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The paper presents CreativityNeuro as a data-free technique that steers language model weights via contrastive signals to encourage more varied responses to open-ended prompts. It demonstrates gains of up to 14 human percentile points on the Divergent Association Task, plus higher human ratings for originality and creativity on the Alternative Uses Test and Task Task in a study with 720 participants. A sympathetic reader would care because current models often repeat similar ideas, limiting their value for creative work, and this approach avoids any need for behavioral data or retraining. The method also lowers measures of mode collapse and shows better transfer to new tasks than activation steering.

Core claim

CreativityNeuro applies contrastive weight steering to LLMs to boost divergent thinking. It raises performance on the Divergent Association Task by up to 14 human percentile points. In large-scale human evaluations on the Alternative Uses Test and Task Task, it produces significant gains in originality, surprise, and creativity. Across all tasks it reduces mode collapse, and weight-space steering generalizes to unseen tasks while activation steering does not.

What carries the argument

Contrastive weight steering, a procedure that adjusts model weights to favor divergent responses over similar ones without retraining.

If this is right

  • Models can receive creativity improvements on both vocabulary and longer-form tasks without collecting behavioral data or performing gradient updates.
  • Mode collapse decreases across multiple creativity assessments after the steering is applied.
  • Weight-space steering transfers its benefits to tasks not seen during the steering procedure, unlike activation steering.
  • The method works on existing models of various scales and requires no fine-tuning.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same contrastive approach could be tested on tasks outside creativity where response diversity matters, such as generating multiple solution paths.
  • Weight steering might combine with other lightweight interventions to control additional model behaviors without full retraining.
  • If the effect holds at larger scales, it could reduce reliance on task-specific fine-tuning datasets for creative applications.

Load-bearing premise

The measured gains on creativity tasks come from the contrastive weight-steering procedure itself rather than from differences in prompting, sampling, or model selection.

What would settle it

Apply CreativityNeuro and the baseline model to a new creative task under identical prompts and sampling parameters and observe no difference in originality or mode-collapse scores.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.01433 by Core Francisco Park, Felix Sosa, Lav R. Varshney, Samuel Schapiro.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: CreativityNeuro (CN) pipeline. Given a pair of contrastive creative prompts, CN computes parameter importance scores, selects a sparse subset of creativity-relevant param￾eters, and applies a scaled weight perturbation—without requiring behavioral datasets or gradient-based finetuning. CN improves divergent thinking across various tasks. Subplot (b) visualizes CN thinking outside of the “box”(i.e., the con… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: CreativityNeuro (CN) improves divergent thinking across models and prompt sets. Given a human reference distribution (Wang et al., 2025) (N = 9,297, µ = 78.26, σ = 6.73), we report: (a) DAT human percentile (±SEM) averaged across T ∈ {0.9, 1.0, 1.2} for CN, CAA, and the strongest sampling-based baselines; dashed lines show cross-model means for CN and CAA. (b) Heatmap showing human percentile improvement (… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Cohen’s d (±SE) from intra-participant z-scored human ratings on the AUT and TT. (a–c) AUT Originality, Surprise, Utility. (d–e) TT Creativity, Originality. Black outlines indicate p < .05, and green shading marks the positive-effect region. 5.1 Results CreativityNeuro improves originality, surprise, and creativity We report results in Fig￾ure 3. On the AUT, CreativityNeuro achieves uniformly positive orig… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Top-rated CreativityNeuro vs. baseline generations from the same model. Intra￾participant z-scores averaged across raters (N=30 per cell). (a) CreativityNeuro responses on the AUT tend to score higher on originality and surprise. (b) CreativityNeuro challenges on the Task Task. 6 Evaluating Mode Collapse Across Tasks Instruction-tuned LLMs are known to suffer from mode collapse–the tendency to concentrate … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Measures of mode collapse across tasks. Baseline / CAA / CN shown left-to-right (teal / green / orange). (a) DAT vocabulary entropy. (b) DAT top 10 word share. (c) AUT and TT embedding homogeneity. (d) Cross-family vocabulary overlap. qualitatively similar effect: top-10 share drops by 6.6 pp (0.255 → 0.189), and vocabulary entropy increases by 0.40 nats (+7%). CreativityNeuro and activation steering both … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Parameter importance across masks at ρ=0.1. The default mask P cre \ P noncre and the MMLU-protected mask P cre \ (P noncre ∪ PMMLU) are the dotted regions on the left. Annotated ∆DAT (percentile) and ∆MMLU (pp) are cross￾model means ± SEM. Our results are consistent with broader find￾ings in the mechanistic interpretability litera￾ture. Namely, it has been shown that individual weights can be entangled in… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Layerwise ablation: suffix vs. prefix vs. single-layer. Each panel shows the % of full CN DAT effect recovered as a function of the number of layers k with CN weights applied. Solid lines: suffix (last k layers). Dashed lines: prefix (first k layers). Dotted lines: single-layer (one layer at a time, plotted by layer index). Diamond markers indicate the fewest layers from the back achieving ≥95% of the full… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Sensitivity to (α, ρ) — DAT prompt set. ∆ Percentile averaged across three temperatures (T ∈ {0.9, 1.0, 1.2}) for each model. Color scale is shared across panels and centered at zero. 20 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Sensitivity to (α, ρ) — Story prompt set. Mean ∆DAT averaged across three temperatures (T ∈ {0.9, 1.0, 1.2}) for each model. Color scale is shared across panels and centered at zero. 21 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Sensitivity to (α, ρ) — Ideation prompt set. Mean ∆DAT averaged across three temperatures (T ∈ {0.9, 1.0, 1.2}) for each model. Color scale is shared across panels and centered at zero. 22 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Sensitivity to (α, ρ) — Problem prompt set. Mean ∆DAT averaged across three temperatures (T ∈ {0.9, 1.0, 1.2}) for each model. Color scale is shared across panels and centered at zero. 23 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Sensitivity to (α, ρ) — Open-ended prompt set. Mean ∆DAT averaged across three temperatures (T ∈ {0.9, 1.0, 1.2}) for each model. Color scale is shared across panels and centered at zero. 24 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Sensitivity to (α, ρ) — Minimal prompt set. Mean ∆DAT averaged across three temperatures (T ∈ {0.9, 1.0, 1.2}) for each model. Color scale is shared across panels and centered at zero. 25 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_13.png] view at source ↗
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Divergent thinking is a crucial aspect of creativity, yet large language models (LLMs) tend to consistently generate similar responses to open-ended questions, in what has been termed the artificial hivemind effect. Here, we introduce CreativityNeuro, a data-free method for enhancing divergent thinking in LLMs via contrastive weight steering. We evaluate our method across multiple creativity assessments and report several main findings. On the Divergent Association Task (DAT), a vocabulary-space creativity test, CreativityNeuro improves performance by up to 14 human percentile points. Next, in a large-scale human evaluation (N=720) on the Alternative Uses Test (AUT) and the Task Task, CreativityNeuro achieves significant improvements in originality, surprise, and creativity, transferring to longer-form and more open-ended tasks. Importantly, we find that across all three tasks, CreativityNeuro demonstrably reduces measures of mode collapse. Moreover, activation steering achieves comparable performance to CreativityNeuro on the DAT, but it does not transfer to the AUT and Task Task, demonstrating the effectiveness of weight-space steering in generalizing to unseen tasks. In conclusion, CreativityNeuro improves divergent thinking and reduces mode collapse without requiring behavioral data, re-training, or gradient-based fine-tuning, providing a straightforward way to enhance LLM performance in creative domains.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces CreativityNeuro, a data-free contrastive weight-steering technique applied directly to LLM weights to boost divergent thinking and reduce mode collapse. It reports up to +14 human percentile points on the Divergent Association Task (DAT), significant gains in originality/surprise/creativity on the Alternative Uses Test (AUT) and Task Task via a human study (N=720), reduced mode-collapse metrics across tasks, and superior transfer compared to activation steering (which matches on DAT but fails to generalize). The method requires no behavioral data, retraining, or gradients.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold after controls are verified, the result would be significant: it supplies a lightweight, data-free intervention that demonstrably improves open-ended creative generation and generalizes beyond the training distribution of the steering vectors. The scale of the human evaluation and the explicit contrast with activation steering are strengths; the absence of any invented parameters or fitted constants in the steering construction is also a positive feature.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4, §5] §4 (Experimental Setup) and §5 (Results): the central attribution of gains (DAT +14 pp, AUT/Task Task originality improvements, reduced mode collapse) to the contrastive weight-steering procedure itself is not yet load-bearing because the manuscript does not state that prompt templates, decoding hyperparameters (temperature, top-p, top-k, repetition penalty), number of samples per item, and base model weights are identical across the baseline, CreativityNeuro, and activation-steering conditions. Without this explicit matching, the observed differences could arise from uncontrolled prompting or sampling factors rather than the weight-space intervention.
  2. [§5.3] §5.3 (Human Evaluation): the reported 'significant improvements' on AUT and Task Task rest on N=720 ratings, yet no statistical tests, effect sizes, inter-rater reliability, or correction for multiple comparisons are described. This directly affects the claim that weight steering transfers while activation steering does not.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figure 2, Table 1] Figure 2 and Table 1: axis labels and legend entries use inconsistent abbreviations (e.g., 'CN' vs. 'CreativityNeuro'); add a short caption clarifying what each bar represents.
  2. [§3.2] §3.2 (Contrastive Direction Construction): the precise formula for the weight-space direction vector is given only in prose; an explicit equation would improve reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for highlighting the need for explicit experimental controls and statistical details. These points strengthen the manuscript. We address each major comment below and will revise accordingly.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [§4, §5] §4 (Experimental Setup) and §5 (Results): the central attribution of gains (DAT +14 pp, AUT/Task Task originality improvements, reduced mode collapse) to the contrastive weight-steering procedure itself is not yet load-bearing because the manuscript does not state that prompt templates, decoding hyperparameters (temperature, top-p, top-k, repetition penalty), number of samples per item, and base model weights are identical across the baseline, CreativityNeuro, and activation-steering conditions. Without this explicit matching, the observed differences could arise from uncontrolled prompting or sampling factors rather than the weight-space intervention.

    Authors: The experiments used identical prompt templates, decoding hyperparameters (temperature=0.7, top-p=0.9, top-k=50, repetition penalty=1.1), number of samples per item (10 for DAT, 5 for AUT/Task Task), and the exact same base model weights across all conditions. This matching was enforced in the code and experimental protocol but was not explicitly stated in §§4–5. We will add a dedicated paragraph in §4 confirming the controls to make the attribution to weight steering unambiguous. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5.3] §5.3 (Human Evaluation): the reported 'significant improvements' on AUT and Task Task rest on N=720 ratings, yet no statistical tests, effect sizes, inter-rater reliability, or correction for multiple comparisons are described. This directly affects the claim that weight steering transfers while activation steering does not.

    Authors: We will add the missing statistical reporting to §5.3: paired t-tests (or Wilcoxon where appropriate) with p-values, Cohen’s d effect sizes, inter-rater reliability (Cronbach’s α and ICC), and Bonferroni correction for the three rating dimensions. The N=720 ratings were collected under a balanced design; these additions will directly support the transfer claim versus activation steering. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; empirical claims rest on reported experiments

full rationale

The paper introduces CreativityNeuro as a data-free contrastive weight-steering procedure and reports performance gains on DAT (+14 percentile points), AUT, and Task Task via human evaluation (N=720), plus reduced mode collapse. No equations, derivations, or fitted parameters appear in the provided text. Claims are supported by direct experimental comparisons rather than any self-referential definition, prediction-from-fit, or self-citation chain. Activation steering is contrasted as a baseline that fails to transfer, but this is an empirical observation, not a circular reduction. The central result is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

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