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Controlled Text Generation for Large Language Model with Dynamic Attribute Graphs

Computation and Language 2024-05-27 v2

Abstract

Controlled Text Generation (CTG) aims to produce texts that exhibit specific desired attributes. In this study, we introduce a pluggable CTG framework for Large Language Models (LLMs) named Dynamic Attribute Graphs-based controlled text generation (DATG). This framework utilizes an attribute scorer to evaluate the attributes of sentences generated by LLMs and constructs dynamic attribute graphs. DATG modulates the occurrence of key attribute words and key anti-attribute words, achieving effective attribute control without compromising the original capabilities of the model. We conduct experiments across four datasets in two tasks: toxicity mitigation and sentiment transformation, employing five LLMs as foundational models. Our findings highlight a remarkable enhancement in control accuracy, achieving a peak improvement of 19.29% over baseline methods in the most favorable task across four datasets. Additionally, we observe a significant decrease in perplexity, markedly improving text fluency.

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@article{arxiv.2402.11218,
  title  = {Controlled Text Generation for Large Language Model with Dynamic Attribute Graphs},
  author = {Xun Liang and Hanyu Wang and Shichao Song and Mengting Hu and Xunzhi Wang and Zhiyu Li and Feiyu Xiong and Bo Tang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.11218},
  year   = {2024}
}

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18 Pages, Accepted by ACL 2024 Findings

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