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Aug 2026
Can Language Models Imagine Without Seeing? Ekphrasis: Measuring Visual Creative Ideation in Text-Only LLMs
A cross-modal grounding study shows that text-level VCI ordering largely survives faithful rendering and blind image-level preference judgment, supporting Ekphrasis as a measure of visual ideation beyond prose quality.
Hongyu Luo, Hexi Wang, Hui-Hao Jing et al.
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