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Recent generative adversarial networks (GANs) are able to generate impressive photo-realistic images. However, controllable generation with GANs remains a challenging research problem. Achieving controllable generation requires semantically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Grigorios G Chrysos , Jean Kossaifi , Zhiding Yu , Anima Anandkumar

Past work on story generation has demonstrated the usefulness of conditioning on a generation plan to generate coherent stories. However, these approaches have used heuristics or off-the-shelf models to first tag training stories with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Harsh Jhamtani , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Citation generation aims to generate a citation sentence that refers to a chosen paper in the context of a manuscript. However, a rigid citation generation process is at odds with an author's desire to control specific attributes, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Nianlong Gu , Richard H. R. Hahnloser

Previous work on controllable text generation has explored the idea of control from the latent space, such as optimizing a representation with attribute-related classifiers or sampling a representation from relevant discrete samples.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yuxuan Gu , Xiaocheng Feng , Sicheng Ma , Lingyuan Zhang , Heng Gong , Weihong Zhong , Bing Qin

Recent neural approaches to data-to-text generation have mostly focused on improving content fidelity while lacking explicit control over writing styles (e.g., word choices, sentence structures). More traditional systems use templates to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Shuai Lin , Wentao Wang , Zichao Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Frank F. Xu , Eric Xing , Zhiting Hu

Automated story generation is the problem of automatically selecting a sequence of events, actions, or words that can be told as a story. We seek to develop a system that can generate stories by learning everything it needs to know from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Lara J. Martin , Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Xinyu Wang , William Hancock , Shruti Singh , Brent Harrison , Mark O. Riedl

We introduce CGA, a conditional VAE architecture, to control, generate, and augment text. CGA is able to generate natural English sentences controlling multiple semantic and syntactic attributes by combining adversarial learning with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Giuseppe Russo , Nora Hollenstein , Claudiu Musat , Ce Zhang

Modern language models can generate high-quality short texts. However, they often meander or are incoherent when generating longer texts. These issues arise from the next-token-only language modeling objective. Recent work in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Rose E Wang , Esin Durmus , Noah Goodman , Tatsunori Hashimoto

The standard recurrent neural network language model (RNNLM) generates sentences one word at a time and does not work from an explicit global sentence representation. In this work, we introduce and study an RNN-based variational autoencoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Samuel R. Bowman , Luke Vilnis , Oriol Vinyals , Andrew M. Dai , Rafal Jozefowicz , Samy Bengio

Many text generation tasks naturally contain two steps: content selection and surface realization. Current neural encoder-decoder models conflate both steps into a black-box architecture. As a result, the content to be described in the text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Xiaoyu Shen , Jun Suzuki , Kentaro Inui , Hui Su , Dietrich Klakow , Satoshi Sekine

In this paper, we propose a model using generative adversarial net (GAN) to generate realistic text. Instead of using standard GAN, we combine variational autoencoder (VAE) with generative adversarial net. The use of high-level latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Heng Wang , Zengchang Qin , Tao Wan

We introduce the Attentive Unsupervised Text (W)riter (AUTR), which is a word level generative model for natural language. It uses a recurrent neural network with a dynamic attention and canvas memory mechanism to iteratively construct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Harshil Shah , Bowen Zheng , David Barber

This work introduces Focused-Variation Network (FVN), a novel model to control language generation. The main problems in previous controlled language generation models range from the difficulty of generating text according to the given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Lei Shu , Alexandros Papangelis , Yi-Chia Wang , Gokhan Tur , Hu Xu , Zhaleh Feizollahi , Bing Liu , Piero Molino

We present a comparison of word-based and character-based sequence-to-sequence models for data-to-text natural language generation, which generate natural language descriptions for structured inputs. On the datasets of two recent generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Glorianna Jagfeld , Sabrina Jenne , Ngoc Thang Vu

Text generation from semantic graphs is traditionally performed with deterministic methods, which generate a unique description given an input graph. However, the generation problem admits a range of acceptable textual outputs, exhibiting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Jiuzhou Han , Daniel Beck , Trevor Cohn

Deep learning methods have recently achieved great empirical success on machine translation, dialogue response generation, summarization, and other text generation tasks. At a high level, the technique has been to train end-to-end neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Ziang Xie

Most work on neural natural language generation (NNLG) focus on controlling the content of the generated text. We experiment with controlling several stylistic aspects of the generated text, in addition to its content. The method is based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Jessica Ficler , Yoav Goldberg

Controlling the behavior of language models (LMs) without re-training is a major open problem in natural language generation. While recent works have demonstrated successes on controlling simple sentence attributes (e.g., sentiment), there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Xiang Lisa Li , John Thickstun , Ishaan Gulrajani , Percy Liang , Tatsunori B. Hashimoto

We propose a novel lightweight generative adversarial network for efficient image manipulation using natural language descriptions. To achieve this, a new word-level discriminator is proposed, which provides the generator with fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Bowen Li , Xiaojuan Qi , Philip H. S. Torr , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Recent advances in deep neural language models combined with the capacity of large scale datasets have accelerated the development of natural language generation systems that produce fluent and coherent texts (to various degrees of success)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Cristina Garbacea , Qiaozhu Mei