Doheon Han
2026
Continuous Context Sampling Allows Extending Diversity Boundaries of Large Language Models
Mateusz Bystroński | Doheon Han | Nitesh V. Chawla | Tomasz Jan Kajdanowicz
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
Mateusz Bystroński | Doheon Han | Nitesh V. Chawla | Tomasz Jan Kajdanowicz
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
Starting from the observation that conditioning a poetry-writing prompt with a pancake recipe leads an LLM to produce a coherent poem incorporating pancake-related content and, more broadly, that such contexts arrange themselves into a structured semantic vector space, we argue that this renders the space explorable. By sampling it and using the resulting continuous representations to condition an LLM’s generation distribution, we can systematically expand the model’s reachable semantic range.We introduce a framework that requires no modification of LLM parameters and operationalizes this idea by constructing a conditioning distribution from a small set of diverse anchor generations. This distribution conditions LLM’s generation via an xRAG-style projector.Our experiments demonstrate that this manifold-based conditioning substantially increases generative diversity, with direct benefits for enhancing divergent thinking, a core facet of creativity, in language models.