CresOWLve: Benchmarking Creative Problem-Solving Over Real-World Knowledge

This is a bilingual benchmark for creative problem-solving grounded in real-world knowledge and solvable by human experts. CresOWLve spans a diverse range of knowledge and creative domains, varies in difficulty, requires multiple creative thinking strategies, and is manually validated to ensure quality. It contains ~2K open-ended questions with answers and explanations.

Citation

@misc{ismayilzada2026cresowlve,
      title={CresOWLve: Benchmarking Creative Problem-Solving Over Real-World Knowledge}, 
      author={Mete Ismayilzada and Renqing Cuomao and Daniil Yurshevich and Anna Sotnikova and Lonneke van der Plas and Antoine Bosselut},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2604.03374},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03374}, 
}