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Attention-based neural abstractive summarization systems equipped with copy mechanisms have shown promising results. Despite this success, it has been noticed that such a system generates a summary by mostly, if not entirely, copying over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Noah Weber , Leena Shekhar , Niranjan Balasubramanian , Kyunghyun Cho

We propose a new encoder-decoder approach to learn distributed sentence representations that are applicable to multiple purposes. The model is learned by using a convolutional neural network as an encoder to map an input sentence into a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Zhe Gan , Yunchen Pu , Ricardo Henao , Chunyuan Li , Xiaodong He , Lawrence Carin

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in production systems, powering applications such as chatbots, summarization, and question answering. Despite their success, controlling the length of their response remains a significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Bradley Butcher , Michael O'Keefe , James Titchener

Fixed length summarization aims at generating summaries with a preset number of words or characters. Most recent researches incorporate length information with word embeddings as the input to the recurrent decoding unit, causing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Zhongyi Yu , Zhenghao Wu , Hao Zheng , Zhe XuanYuan , Jefferson Fong , Weifeng Su

In this paper, we propose a control synthesis method for signal temporal logic (STL) specifications with neural networks (NNs). Most of the previous works consider training a controller for only a given STL specification. These approaches,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Wataru Hashimoto , Kazumune Hashimoto , Masako Kishida , Shigemasa Takai

Document summarization provides an instrument for faster understanding the collection of text documents and has several real-life applications. With the growth of online text data, numerous summarization models have been proposed recently.…

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Summarization of long sequences into a concise statement is a core problem in natural language processing, requiring non-trivial understanding of the input. Based on the promising results of graph neural networks on highly structured data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Patrick Fernandes , Miltiadis Allamanis , Marc Brockschmidt

An abstract must not change the meaning of the original text. A single most effective way to achieve that is to increase the amount of copying while still allowing for text abstraction. Human editors can usually exercise control over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Kaiqiang Song , Bingqing Wang , Zhe Feng , Liu Ren , Fei Liu

Transformers have impressive generalization capabilities on tasks with a fixed context length. However, they fail to generalize to sequences of arbitrary length, even for seemingly simple tasks such as duplicating a string. Moreover, simply…

Transformer network architecture has proven effective in speech enhancement. However, as its core module, self-attention suffers from quadratic complexity, making it infeasible for training on long speech utterances. In practical scenarios,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Qiquan Zhang , Hongxu Zhu , Xinyuan Qian , Eliathamby Ambikairajah , Haizhou Li

We introduce Mem2Mem, a memory-to-memory mechanism for hierarchical recurrent neural network based encoder decoder architectures and we explore its use for abstractive document summarization. Mem2Mem transfers "memories" via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Jaehong Park , Jonathan Pilault , Christopher Pal

We introduce a simple, general strategy to manipulate the behavior of a neural decoder that enables it to generate outputs that have specific properties of interest (e.g., sequences of a pre-specified length). The model can be thought of as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Jiwei Li , Will Monroe , Dan Jurafsky

Reinforcement learning substantially improves reasoning in large language models, but it also tends to lengthen chain of thought outputs and increase computational cost during both training and inference. Though length control methods have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Daisuke Nohara , Taishi Nakamura , Rio Yokota

Descriptive comments play a crucial role in the software engineering process. They decrease development time, enable better bug detection, and facilitate the reuse of previously written code. However, comments are commonly the last of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jessica Moore , Ben Gelman , David Slater

Meta-learning has been widely used for implementing few-shot learning and fast model adaptation. One kind of meta-learning methods attempt to learn how to control the gradient descent process in order to make the gradient-based learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Jialin Liu , Fei Chao , Longzhi Yang , Chih-Min Lin , Qiang Shen

We propose a selective encoding model to extend the sequence-to-sequence framework for abstractive sentence summarization. It consists of a sentence encoder, a selective gate network, and an attention equipped decoder. The sentence encoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Qingyu Zhou , Nan Yang , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

This study presents a controllable abstract summary generation method for large language models based on prompt engineering. To address the issues of summary quality and controllability in traditional methods, we design a multi-stage prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Xiangchen Song , Yuchen Liu , Yaxuan Luan , Jinxu Guo , Xiaofan Guo

Traditional sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models and other variations of the attention-mechanism such as hierarchical attention have been applied to the text summarization problem. Though there is a hierarchy in the way humans use language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Rajeev Bhatt Ambati , Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay , Prasenjit Mitra

Transformer-based sequence-to-sequence architectures, while achieving state-of-the-art results on a large number of NLP tasks, can still suffer from overfitting during training. In practice, this is usually countered either by applying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Dušan Variš , Ondřej Bojar

Machine transliteration is the process of automatically transforming the script of a word from a source language to a target language, while preserving pronunciation. Sequence to sequence learning has recently emerged as a new paradigm in…

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