Team TüLK at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation with Qwen and Group Relative Policy Optimization

Konrad Brüggemann; Luting Hou

Team TüLK at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation with Qwen and Group Relative Policy Optimization

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This paper addresses the challenge of computational humor generation proposed in SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation. Our approach leverages Group Relative Policy Optimization, with an LLM serving as the policy and a custom joke rating model providing a reward signal. We demonstrate that this framework is an effective and computationally efficient approach, reliably producing genuinely funny content that adheres to task constraints.

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Volume:: Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
Month:: July
Year:: 2026
Address:: San Diego, California, USA
Editors:: Ekaterina Kochmar, Debanjan Ghosh, Kai North, Mamoru Komachi
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Cite (ACL):: Konrad Brüggemann and Luting Hou. 2026. Team TüLK at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation with Qwen and Group Relative Policy Optimization. In Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026), pages 463–474, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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[Team TüLK at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation with Qwen and Group Relative Policy Optimization](https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.67/) (Brüggemann & Hou, SemEval 2026)

Team TüLK at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation with Qwen and Group Relative Policy Optimization (Brüggemann & Hou, SemEval 2026)

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Konrad Brüggemann and Luting Hou. 2026. Team TüLK at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation with Qwen and Group Relative Policy Optimization. In Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026), pages 463–474, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.