Computational creativity

Literature

Books and surveys

  • Sawyer, 2012: Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation
  • Colton, Lopez de Mantaras, Stock, 2009: Computational creativity: Coming of age (pdf)
  • Colton & Wiggins, 2012: Computational creativity: The final frontier? (doi, pdf)

Bayesian surprise and its applications

  • Itti & Baldi, 2009: Bayesian surprise attracts human attention (doi, pdf)
    • Conference version at NeurIPS (pdf)
  • Baldi & Itti, 2010: Of bits and wows: a Bayesian theory of surprise (doi, pdf)
  • Varshney et al, 2013: A big data approach to computational creativity (arxiv)
  • Varshney et al, 2015: Associative algorithms for computational creativity (doi, pdf)