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Pun Unintended: LLMs and the Illusion of Humor Understanding
Alessandro Zangari, Matteo Marcuzzo, Andrea Albarelli, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Jose Camacho-Collados
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12158

Pun Unintended: LLMs and the Illusion of Humor Understanding
Puns are a form of humorous wordplay that exploits polysemy and phonetic similarity. While LLMs have shown promise in detecting puns, we show in this paper that their understanding often remains shallow, lacking the nuanced grasp typical of human interpretation. By systematically analyzing and reformulating existing pun benchmarks, we demonstrate how subtle changes in puns are sufficient to mislead LLMs. Our contributions include comprehensive and nuanced pun detection benchmarks, human evaluat…

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