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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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Xun Liang , Hanyu Wang , Shichao Song , Mengting Hu , Xunzhi Wang , Zhiyu Li , Feiyu Xiong , Bo Tang

Transformer-based language models excel in NLP tasks, but fine-grained control remains challenging. This paper explores methods for manipulating transformer models through principled interventions at three levels: prompts, activations, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Faruk Alpay , Taylan Alpay

Multi-aspect controllable text generation aims to control text generation in attributes from multiple aspects, making it a complex but powerful task in natural language processing. Supervised fine-tuning methods are often employed for this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Chenyu Zhu , Yefeng Liu , Chenyang Lyu , Xue Yang , Guanhua Chen , Longyue Wang , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang

Controllable painting generation plays a pivotal role in image stylization. Currently, the control way of style transfer is subject to exemplar-based reference or a random one-hot vector guidance. Few works focus on decoupling the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Minxuan Lin , Yingying Deng , Fan Tang , Weiming Dong , Changsheng Xu

Natural Language Generation (NLG) for task-oriented dialogue systems focuses on communicating specific content accurately, fluently, and coherently. While these attributes are crucial for a successful dialogue, it is also desirable to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Alicia Y. Tsai , Shereen Oraby , Vittorio Perera , Jiun-Yu Kao , Yuheng Du , Anjali Narayan-Chen , Tagyoung Chung , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Recent remarkable advances in large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have inspired a significant breakthrough in text-to-3D generation, pursuing 3D content creation solely from a given text prompt. However, existing text-to-3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Yang Chen , Yingwei Pan , Yehao Li , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Text generation rarely considers the control of lexical complexity, which limits its more comprehensive practical application. We introduce a novel task of lexical complexity controlled sentence generation, which aims at keywords to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jinran Nie , Liner Yang , Yun Chen , Cunliang Kong , Junhui Zhu , Erhong Yang

Text generation has become more accessible than ever, and the increasing interest in these systems, especially those using large language models, has spurred an increasing number of related publications. We provide a systematic literature…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Jonas Becker , Jan Philip Wahle , Bela Gipp , Terry Ruas

Text generation is the automated process of producing written or spoken language using computational methods. It involves generating coherent and contextually relevant text based on predefined rules or learned patterns. However, challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Rahimanuddin Shaik , Katikela Sreeharsha Kishore

Recent advancements in large language models have revolutionized text generation with their remarkable capabilities. These models can produce controlled texts that closely adhere to specific requirements when prompted appropriately.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Zhe Yang , Yi Huang , Yaqin Chen , Xiaoting Wu , Junlan Feng , Chao Deng

Text-based audio generation models have limitations as they cannot encompass all the information in audio, leading to restricted controllability when relying solely on text. To address this issue, we propose a novel model that enhances the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Zhifang Guo , Jianguo Mao , Rui Tao , Long Yan , Kazushige Ouchi , Hong Liu , Xiangdong Wang

Multi-aspect controllable text generation is a more challenging and practical task than single-aspect control. Existing methods achieve complex multi-aspect control by fusing multiple controllers learned from single-aspect, but suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Yuxuan Gu , Xiaocheng Feng , Sicheng Ma , Lingyuan Zhang , Heng Gong , Bing Qin

The paper surveys evaluation methods of natural language generation (NLG) systems that have been developed in the last few years. We group NLG evaluation methods into three categories: (1) human-centric evaluation metrics, (2) automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Asli Celikyilmaz , Elizabeth Clark , Jianfeng Gao

In this tutorial, we focus on text-to-text generation, a class of natural language generation (NLG) tasks, that takes a piece of text as input and then generates a revision that is improved according to some specific criteria (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Yao Dou , Philippe Laban , Claire Gardent , Wei Xu

Large transformer-based language models (LMs) trained on huge text corpora have shown unparalleled generation capabilities. However, controlling attributes of the generated language (e.g. switching topic or sentiment) is difficult without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Sumanth Dathathri , Andrea Madotto , Janice Lan , Jane Hung , Eric Frank , Piero Molino , Jason Yosinski , Rosanne Liu

Text generation often requires high-precision output that obeys task-specific rules. This fine-grained control is difficult to enforce with off-the-shelf deep learning models. In this work, we consider augmenting neural generation models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Xiang Lisa Li , Alexander M. Rush

In this paper, we use a large-scale play scripts dataset to propose the novel task of theatrical cue generation from dialogues. Using over one million lines of dialogue and cues, we approach the problem of cue generation as a controlled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Alara Dirik , Hilal Donmez , Pinar Yanardag

Recent applications of neural language models have led to an increased interest in the automatic generation of natural language. However impressive, the evaluation of neurally generated text has so far remained rather informal and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-21 E. Manjavacas , J. de Gussem , W. Daelemans , M. Kestemont

Controllable text generation is a fundamental aspect of natural language generation, with numerous methods proposed for different constraint types. However, these approaches often require significant architectural or decoding modifications,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Xin Zheng , Hongyu Lin , Xianpei Han , Le Sun

Text-to-speech (TTS) has advanced from generating natural-sounding speech to enabling fine-grained control over attributes like emotion, timbre, and style. Driven by rising industrial demand and breakthroughs in deep learning, e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tianxin Xie , Yan Rong , Pengfei Zhang , Wenwu Wang , Li Liu