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Sequence to sequence (Seq2Seq) learning has recently been used for abstractive and extractive summarization. In current study, Seq2Seq models have been used for eBay product description summarization. We propose a novel Document-Context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Chandra Khatri , Gyanit Singh , Nish Parikh

Recent neural network approaches to summarization are largely either selection-based extraction or generation-based abstraction. In this work, we present a neural model for single-document summarization based on joint extraction and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Jiacheng Xu , Greg Durrett

In this paper, we propose an adversarial process for abstractive text summarization, in which we simultaneously train a generative model G and a discriminative model D. In particular, we build the generator G as an agent of reinforcement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Linqing Liu , Yao Lu , Min Yang , Qiang Qu , Jia Zhu , Hongyan Li

Neural models for abstractive summarization tend to achieve the best performance in the presence of highly specialized, summarization specific modeling add-ons such as pointer-generator, coverage-modeling, and inferencetime heuristics. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Sebastian Goodman , Zhenzhong Lan , Radu Soricut

The growth of online consumer health questions has led to the necessity for reliable and accurate question answering systems. A recent study showed that manual summarization of consumer health questions brings significant improvement in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Shweta Yadav , Deepak Gupta , Asma Ben Abacha , Dina Demner-Fushman

Sequence-to-sequence models provide a viable new approach to generative summarization, allowing models that are no longer limited to simply selecting and recombining sentences from the original text. However, these models have three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Tianyang Xu , Chunyun Zhang

Abstractive neural summarization models have seen great improvements in recent years, as shown by ROUGE scores of the generated summaries. But despite these improved metrics, there is limited understanding of the strategies different models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Matt Wilber , William Timkey , Marten Van Schijndel

Unlike extractive summarization, abstractive summarization has to fuse different parts of the source text, which inclines to create fake facts. Our preliminary study reveals nearly 30% of the outputs from a state-of-the-art neural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Ziqiang Cao , Furu Wei , Wenjie Li , Sujian Li

Abstractive dialogue summarization has received increasing attention recently. Despite the fact that most of the current dialogue summarization systems are trained to maximize the likelihood of human-written summaries and have achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Jiaao Chen , Mohan Dodda , Diyi Yang

Collaborative filtering is widely used in modern recommender systems. Recent research shows that variational autoencoders (VAEs) yield state-of-the-art performance by integrating flexible representations from deep neural networks into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Sam Lobel , Chunyuan Li , Jianfeng Gao , Lawrence Carin

We introduce a sequence-conditioned critic for Soft Actor--Critic (SAC) that models trajectory context with a lightweight Transformer and trains on aggregated $N$-step targets. Unlike prior approaches that (i) score state--action pairs in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Dong Tian , Onur Celik , Gerhard Neumann

In this paper we take the first steps in studying a new approach to synthesis of efficient communication schemes in multi-agent systems, trained via reinforcement learning. We combine symbolic methods with machine learning, in what is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Erik Jergéus , Leo Karlsson Oinonen , Emil Carlsson , Moa Johansson

Neural abstractive summarization has been increasingly studied, where the prior work mainly focused on summarizing single-speaker documents (news, scientific publications, etc). In dialogues, there are different interactions between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Chih-Wen Goo , Yun-Nung Chen

In this work, we consider policy-based methods for solving the reinforcement learning problem, and establish the sample complexity guarantees. A policy-based algorithm typically consists of an actor and a critic. We consider using various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Zaiwei Chen , Siva Theja Maguluri

With the abundance of automatic meeting transcripts, meeting summarization is of great interest to both participants and other parties. Traditional methods of summarizing meetings depend on complex multi-step pipelines that make joint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Chenguang Zhu , Ruochen Xu , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang

State-of-the-art abstractive summarization systems frequently hallucinate content that is not supported by the source document, mainly due to noise in the training dataset. Existing methods opt to drop the noisy samples or tokens from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Meng Cao , Yue Dong , Jingyi He , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

In this paper, we propose a deep learning approach to tackle the automatic summarization tasks by incorporating topic information into the convolutional sequence-to-sequence (ConvS2S) model and using self-critical sequence training (SCST)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Li Wang , Junlin Yao , Yunzhe Tao , Li Zhong , Wei Liu , Qiang Du

Attention mechanism plays a dominant role in the sequence generation models and has been used to improve the performance of machine translation and abstractive text summarization. Different from neural machine translation, in the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Piji Li , Lidong Bing , Zhongyu Wei , Wai Lam

Aspect-based summarization aims to generate summaries tailored to specific aspects, addressing the resource constraints and limited generalizability of traditional summarization approaches. Recently, large language models have shown promise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yichao Feng , Shuai Zhao , Yueqiu Li , Luwei Xiao , Xiaobao Wu , Anh Tuan Luu

Temporal abstraction in reinforcement learning is the ability of an agent to learn and use high-level behaviors, called options. The option-critic architecture provides a gradient-based end-to-end learning method to construct options. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Raviteja Chunduru , Doina Precup