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pith:2026:H5JCURQPCN6THLVMKLL7FSYTQZ

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HumorRank: A Tournament-Based Leaderboard for Evaluating Humor Generation in Large Language Models

Edward Ajayi, Prasenjit Mitra

HumorRank ranks language models on humor generation through automated joke tournaments that reveal skill in comedic mechanisms over model size.

arxiv:2604.19786 v2 · 2026-03-31 · cs.CL

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C1strongest claim

Our results demonstrate that HumorRank yields statistically grounded model stratifications, showing that humor quality is driven by mastery of comedic mechanisms rather than model scale alone.

C2weakest assumption

Automated pairwise judgments grounded in the General Theory of Verbal Humor accurately reflect true humor quality without systematic bias or the need for human validation.

C3one line summary

HumorRank ranks nine LLMs on textual humor using GTVH-grounded pairwise tournaments and Adaptive Swiss aggregation on the SemEval-2026 MWAHAHA dataset, finding that comedic mechanism mastery matters more than scale.

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First computed	2026-06-02T03:04:41.390955Z
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3f522a460f137d33aeac52d7f2cb138653a4ad4f963d254bb8fc677d526c9e47

Aliases

arxiv: 2604.19786 · arxiv_version: 2604.19786v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.19786 · pith_short_12: H5JCURQPCN6T · pith_short_16: H5JCURQPCN6THLVM · pith_short_8: H5JCURQP

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