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Controllable video generation remains a significant challenge, despite recent advances in generating high-quality and consistent videos. Most existing methods for controlling video generation treat the video as a whole, neglecting intricate…

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Matching the performance of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks with little supervision is an important task, especially in venturing into new domains. We design a new training algorithm, which is robust to missing or ambiguous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Sewoong Oh , Ashish Khetan

In conversational AI systems, a critical challenge in training effective multi-turn intent classification models lies in the generation of large-scale, domain-specific, multilingual dialogue datasets. In this paper, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Junhua Liu , Yong Keat Tan , Bin Fu , Kwan Hui Lim

While most image captioning aims to generate objective descriptions of images, the last few years have seen work on generating visually grounded image captions which have a specific style (e.g., incorporating positive or negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Omid Mohamad Nezami , Mark Dras , Stephen Wan , Cecile Paris , Len Hamey

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

The principle of compositionality, which enables natural language to represent complex concepts via a structured combination of simpler ones, allows us to convey an open-ended set of messages using a limited vocabulary. If compositionality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Yi Ren , Shangmin Guo , Matthieu Labeau , Shay B. Cohen , Simon Kirby

Designing visually diverse and high-quality designs remains a manual, time-consuming process, limiting scalability and personalization in creative workflows. We present a system for generating editable design variations using a decoder-only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Karthik Suresh , Amine Ben Khalifa , Li Zhang , Wei-ting Hsu , Fangzheng Wu , Vinay More , Asim Kadav

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot performance across various classification tasks. Nonetheless, their reliance on hand-crafted text prompts for each task hinders efficient adaptation to new tasks. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hoyoung Kim , Seokhee Jin , Changhwan Sung , Jaechang Kim , Jungseul Ok

Generating photo-realistic images from a text description is a challenging problem in computer vision. Previous works have shown promising performance to generate synthetic images conditional on text by Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Tao Hu , Chengjiang Long , Chunxia Xiao

Adversarial examples are intentionally crafted data with the purpose of deceiving neural networks into misclassification. When we talk about strategies to create such examples, we usually refer to perturbation-based methods that fabricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Shih-hong Tsai

Conditional image generation is an active research topic including text2image and image translation. Recently image manipulation with linguistic instruction brings new challenges of multimodal conditional generation. However, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Zhenhuan Liu , Jincan Deng , Liang Li , Shaofei Cai , Qianqian Xu , Shuhui Wang , Qingming Huang

Word alignments identify translational correspondences between words in a parallel sentence pair and are used, for instance, to learn bilingual dictionaries, to train statistical machine translation systems or to perform quality estimation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Anh Khoa Ngo Ho , François Yvon

Moving from limited-domain natural language generation (NLG) to open domain is difficult because the number of semantic input combinations grows exponentially with the number of domains. Therefore, it is important to leverage existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Tsung-Hsien Wen , Milica Gasic , Nikola Mrksic , Lina M. Rojas-Barahona , Pei-Hao Su , David Vandyke , Steve Young

Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) are generative models that can produce data samples ($x$) conditioned on both latent variables ($z$) and known auxiliary information ($c$). We propose the Bidirectional cGAN (BiCoGAN),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Ayush Jaiswal , Wael AbdAlmageed , Yue Wu , Premkumar Natarajan

Learning a perception and reasoning module for robotic assistants to plan steps to perform complex tasks based on natural language instructions often requires large free-form language annotations, especially for short high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Taewoong Kim , Byeonghwi Kim , Jonghyun Choi

Recent advances in Deep Learning and probabilistic modeling have led to strong improvements in generative models for images. On the one hand, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have contributed a highly effective adversarial learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Yang He , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been remarkably successful in learning complex high dimensional real word distributions and generating realistic samples. However, they provide limited control over the generation process.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Arunava Chakraborty , Rahul Ragesh , Mahir Shah , Nipun Kwatra

Conditional discrete generative models struggle to faithfully compose multiple input conditions. To address this, we derive a theoretically-grounded formulation for composing discrete probabilistic generative processes, with masked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jamie Stirling , Noura Al-Moubayed , Chris G. Willcocks , Hubert P. H. Shum

Conditional discrete generative models struggle to faithfully compose multiple input conditions. To address this, we derive a theoretically-grounded formulation for composing discrete probabilistic generative processes, with masked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jamie Stirling , Noura Al-Moubayed , Chris G. Willcocks , Hubert P. H. Shum

Mixed-initiative dialogue tasks involve repeated exchanges of information and conversational control. Conversational agents gain control by generating responses that follow particular dialogue intents or strategies, prescribed by a policy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Maximillian Chen , Xiao Yu , Weiyan Shi , Urvi Awasthi , Zhou Yu