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Recent deep learning models have demonstrated strong capabilities for classifying text and non-text components in natural images. They extract a high-level feature computed globally from a whole image component (patch), where the cluttered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Tong He , Weilin Huang , Yu Qiao , Jian Yao

As generative models become ubiquitous, there is a critical need for fine-grained control over the generation process. Yet, while controlled generation methods from prompting to fine-tuning proliferate, a fundamental question remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Emily Cheng , Carmen Amo Alonso , Federico Danieli , Arno Blaas , Luca Zappella , Pau Rodriguez , Xavier Suau

We derive a controlled generation objective within the framework of Variational Flow Matching (VFM), which casts flow matching as a variational inference problem. We demonstrate that controlled generation can be implemented two ways: (1) by…

Extracting appropriate features to represent a corpus is an important task for textual mining. Previous attention based work usually enhance feature at the lexical level, which lacks the exploration of feature augmentation at the sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Longxuan Ma , Pengfei Wang , Lei Zhang

It has always been an important yet challenging problem to control language models to avoid generating texts with undesirable attributes, such as toxic language and unnatural repetition. We introduce Click for controllable text generation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Chujie Zheng , Pei Ke , Zheng Zhang , Minlie Huang

This paper introduces a new approach to generating strongly constrained texts. We consider standardized sentence generation for the typical application of vision screening. To solve this problem, we formalize it as a discrete combinatorial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Alexandre Bonlarron , Aurélie Calabrèse , Pierre Kornprobst , Jean-Charles Régin

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

In the rapidly evolving field of text generation, the demand for more precise control mechanisms has become increasingly apparent. To address this need, we present a novel methodology, LIFI, which offers a lightweight approach with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Chufan Shi , Deng Cai , Yujiu Yang

In this work, we introduce FlexGen, a flexible framework designed to generate controllable and consistent multi-view images, conditioned on a single-view image, or a text prompt, or both. FlexGen tackles the challenges of controllable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinli Xu , Wenhang Ge , Jiantao Lin , Jiawei Feng , Lie Xu , HanFeng Zhao , Shunsi Zhang , Ying-Cong Chen

Natural Language Generation (NLG) has made great progress in recent years due to the development of deep learning techniques such as pre-trained language models. This advancement has resulted in more fluent, coherent and even properties…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Wei Li , Wenhao Wu , Moye Chen , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Hua Wu

Generating visual text in natural scene images is a challenging task with many unsolved problems. Different from generating text on artificially designed images (such as posters, covers, cartoons, etc.), the text in natural scene images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Jiawei Liu , Yuanzhi Zhu , Feiyu Gao , Zhibo Yang , Peng Wang , Junyang Lin , Xinggang Wang , Wenyu Liu

The increasing prevalence of Large Language Models (LMs) in critical applications highlights the need for controlled language generation strategies that are not only computationally efficient but that also enjoy performance guarantees. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Emily Cheng , Carmen Amo Alonso

Discrete diffusion models are a class of generative models that construct sequences by progressively denoising samples from a categorical noise distribution. Beyond their rapidly growing ability to generate coherent natural language, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Michael Cardei , Jacob K Christopher , Thomas Hartvigsen , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ferdinando Fioretto

Designing and generating new data under targeted properties has been attracting various critical applications such as molecule design, image editing and speech synthesis. Traditional hand-crafted approaches heavily rely on expertise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shiyu Wang , Yuanqi Du , Xiaojie Guo , Bo Pan , Zhaohui Qin , Liang Zhao

Recent work on controlled text generation has either required attribute-based fine-tuning of the base language model (LM), or has restricted the parameterization of the attribute discriminator to be compatible with the base autoregressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah , Kartik Goyal , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

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

In this paper, we introduce a novel natural language generation task, termed as text morphing, which targets at generating the intermediate sentences that are fluency and smooth with the two input sentences. We propose the Morphing Networks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Shaohan Huang , Yu Wu , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

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

Recent deep generative models are able to provide photo-realistic images as well as visual or textual content embeddings useful to address various tasks of computer vision and natural language processing. Their usefulness is nevertheless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Antoine Plumerault , Hervé Le Borgne , Céline Hudelot

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
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