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We propose a simple and effective modeling framework for controlled generation of multiple, diverse outputs. We focus on the setting of generating the next sentence of a story given its context. As controllable dimensions, we consider…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Lifu Tu , Xiaoan Ding , Dong Yu , Kevin Gimpel

In recent years, considerable research has been dedicated to the application of neural models in the field of natural language generation (NLG). The primary objective is to generate text that is both linguistically natural and human-like,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Chen Tang , Frank Guerin , Chenghua Lin

With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), Controllable Text Generation (CTG) has become a critical technology for enhancing system reliability and user experience. Addressing the limitations of traditional methods, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yan Zhuang , Yuan Sun

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

Readability refers to how easily a reader can understand a written text. Several factors affect the readability level, such as the complexity of the text, its subject matter, and the reader's background knowledge. Generating summaries based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Mohit Bansal , Markus Dreyer

Recent developments in neural networks have led to the advance in data-to-text generation. However, the lack of ability of neural models to control the structure of generated output can be limiting in certain real-world applications. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Yixuan Su , David Vandyke , Sihui Wang , Yimai Fang , Nigel Collier

With the rapid development of AI-generated content (AIGC), video generation has emerged as one of its most dynamic and impactful subfields. In particular, the advancement of video generation foundation models has led to growing demand for…

Large language models generate fluent texts and can follow natural language instructions to solve a wide range of tasks without task-specific training. Nevertheless, it is notoriously difficult to control their generation to satisfy the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Wangchunshu Zhou , Yuchen Eleanor Jiang , Ethan Wilcox , Ryan Cotterell , Mrinmaya Sachan

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

Large language models benefit from training with a large amount of unlabeled text, which gives them increasingly fluent and diverse generation capabilities. However, using these models for text generation that takes into account target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Dian Yu , Zhou Yu , Kenji Sagae

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the development of language models capable of generating text with controllable attributes. While several approaches have been proposed, many of these methods require condition-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Shangda Wu , Maosong Sun

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

Models for text generation have become focal for many research tasks and especially for the generation of sentence corpora. However, understanding the properties of an automatically generated text corpus remains challenging. We propose a…

Large-scale Causal Language Models (CLMs), e.g., GPT3 and ChatGPT, have brought great success in text generation. However, it is still an open challenge to control the generation process of CLM while balancing flexibility, control…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Hanqing Zhang , Sun Si , Haiming Wu , Dawei Song

This paper presents a systematic survey on recent development of neural text generation models. Specifically, we start from recurrent neural network language models with the traditional maximum likelihood estimation training scheme and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Sidi Lu , Yaoming Zhu , Weinan Zhang , Jun Wang , Yong Yu

Large pre-trained neural language models (LM) have very powerful text generation capabilities. However, in practice, they are hard to control for creative purposes. We describe a Plug-and-Play controllable language generation framework,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Zhiyu Lin , Mark Riedl

Rerunning a metric-based evaluation should be more straightforward, and results should be closer, than in a human-based evaluation, especially where code and model checkpoints are made available by the original authors. As this report of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Michela Lorandi , Anya Belz

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable text generation capabilities. However, controlling specific attributes of generated text remains challenging without architectural modifications or extensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yu Li , Zhe Yang , Yi Huang , Xin Liu , Guilin Qi

The goal of text generation is to make machines express in human language. It is one of the most important yet challenging tasks in natural language processing (NLP). Since 2014, various neural encoder-decoder models pioneered by Seq2Seq…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Wenhao Yu , Chenguang Zhu , Zaitang Li , Zhiting Hu , Qingyun Wang , Heng Ji , Meng Jiang

Sequence-to-Sequence (S2S) neural text generation models, especially the pre-trained ones (e.g., BART and T5), have exhibited compelling performance on various natural language generation tasks. However, the black-box nature of these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Yufei Wang , Can Xu , Huang Hu , Chongyang Tao , Stephen Wan , Mark Dras , Mark Johnson , Daxin Jiang