Li-Chun Lu

I am interested in advancing AI’s abilities in human-centered intelligence that extend beyond informative tasks (e.g., creativity, social interaction), with the vision of enhancing human life and fostering human-AI collaboration through more innovative perspectives and solutions.

I am a research assistant at Robot Learning Lab, National Taiwan University (NTU), working with Professor Shao-Hua Sun. I received my B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from NTU in July 2025. During my undergraduate studies, I collaborated with Professors Shao-Hua Sun and Hung-yi Lee on language models, where I designed a multi-agent discussion framework incorporating role-play techniques that enhances LLM’s creativity. I also worked with Professor Mike Y. Chen on human-computer interaction research through virtual reality gaming.

Earilier this year, I was a visiting researcher at the UCLA NLP Group in Professor Nanyun Peng’s PLUS Lab, where I led a project that analyzed and compared existing metrics for creativity evaluation across multiple domains, identifying key limitations and underscoring the need for more robust evaluation methods.

News

Nov 2024	I have started working as a visiting researcher at UCLA in the Computer Science Department, under Professor Nanyun Peng’s PLUS Lab, for a six-month period.
Jul 2024	Our paper LLM Discussion: Enhancing the Creativity of Large Language Models via Discussion Framework and Role-Play has been accepted to COLM 2024. Join us during the poster session on the afternoon of October 7th in Philadelphia! Click to check out our work!
Jun 2024	I’ve started working as a Research Assistant at National Taiwan University’s Robot Learning Lab.
May 2024	Yu Lun Hsu and I presented our work, AnimalSense: Understanding Beyond-human Sensory Capabilities of Animals via VR Games, at CHI 2024 Student Games Competition and got a Runner Up Award.
Apr 2024	Our work VeeR: Exploring the Feasibility of Deliberately Designing VR Motion that Diverges from Mundane, Everyday Physical Motion to Create More Entertaining VR Experiences has been accepted to CHI 2024. Feeling excited to attend my first conference in Hawaii! Check out our work here.

Selected Publications

COLM ’24
LLM Discussion: Enhancing the Creativity of Large Language Models via Discussion Framework and Role-Play

Li-Chun Lu^*, Shou-Jen Chen^*, Tsung-Min Pai, and 3 more authors

In First Conference on Language Modeling, 2024

Abs Bib Code

Large language models (LLMs) have shown exceptional proficiency in natural language processing but often fall short of generating creative and original responses to open-ended questions. To enhance LLM creativity, our key insight is to emulate the human process of inducing collective creativity through engaging discussions with participants from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. To this end, we propose LLM Discussion, a three-phase discussion framework that facilitates vigorous and diverging idea exchanges and ensures convergence to creative answers. Moreover, we adopt a role-playing technique by assigning distinct roles to LLMs to combat the homogeneity of LLMs. We evaluate the efficacy of the proposed framework with the Alternative Uses Test, Similarities Test, Instances Test, and Scientific Creativity Test through both LLM evaluation and human study. The results show that our proposed framework outperforms single-LLM approaches and existing multi-LLM frameworks across various creativity metrics.
@inproceedings{lullm, title = {LLM Discussion: Enhancing the Creativity of Large Language Models via Discussion Framework and Role-Play}, author = {Lu, Li-Chun and Chen, Shou-Jen and Pai, Tsung-Min and Yu, Chan-Hung and Lee, Hung-yi and Sun, Shao-Hua}, booktitle = {First Conference on Language Modeling}, year = {2024}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06373}, }