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The decoding algorithm is critical for open-ended text generation, transforming latent representations into coherent and meaningful outputs. This paper investigates the self-reinforcement effect in text generation and the effectiveness of a…

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Text-driven human motion generation, as one of the vital tasks in computer-aided content creation, has recently attracted increasing attention. While pioneering research has largely focused on improving numerical performance metrics on…

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Likelihood training and maximization-based decoding result in dull and repetitive generated texts even when using powerful language models (Holtzman et al., 2019). Adding a loss function for regularization was shown to improve text…

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Generative commonsense reasoning requires machines to generate sentences describing an everyday scenario given several concepts, which has attracted much attention recently. However, existing models cannot perform as well as humans, since…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Xin Liu , Dayiheng Liu , Baosong Yang , Haibo Zhang , Junwei Ding , Wenqing Yao , Weihua Luo , Haiying Zhang , Jinsong Su

Recent years have seen significant advancement in text generation tasks with the help of neural language models. However, there exists a challenging task: generating math problem text based on mathematical equations, which has made little…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Tianyang Cao , Shuang Zeng , Songge Zhao , Mairgup Mansur , Baobao Chang

Many applications of text generation require incorporating different constraints to control the semantics or style of generated text. These constraints can be hard (e.g., ensuring certain keywords are included in the output) and soft (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Lianhui Qin , Sean Welleck , Daniel Khashabi , Yejin Choi

Open-ended text generation has become a prominent task in natural language processing due to the rise of powerful (large) language models. However, evaluating the quality of these models and the employed decoding strategies remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Esteban Garces Arias , Hannah Blocher , Julian Rodemann , Meimingwei Li , Christian Heumann , Matthias Aßenmacher

The autoregressive decoding for text generation in large language models (LLMs), while widely used, is inherently suboptimal due to the lack of a built-in mechanism to perform refinement and/or correction of the generated content. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zeyu Tang , Zhenhao Chen , Xiangchen Song , Loka Li , Yunlong Deng , Yifan Shen , Guangyi Chen , Peter Spirtes , Kun Zhang

Lexically constrained sentence generation allows the incorporation of prior knowledge such as lexical constraints into the output. This technique has been applied to machine translation, and dialog response generation. Previous work usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xingwei He , Victor O. K. Li

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

While most research on controllable text generation has focused on steering base Language Models, the emerging instruction-tuning and prompting paradigm offers an alternate approach to controllability. We compile and release ConGenBench, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Dhananjay Ashok , Barnabas Poczos

Providing pretrained language models with simple task descriptions in natural language enables them to solve some tasks in a fully unsupervised fashion. Moreover, when combined with regular learning from examples, this idea yields…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Timo Schick , Hinrich Schütze

Open-ended text generation with autoregressive language models (LMs) is one of the core tasks in natural language processing. However, maximization-based decoding methods (e.g., greedy/beam search) often lead to the degeneration problem,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Tian Lan , Yixuan Su , Shuhang Liu , Heyan Huang , Xian-Ling Mao

Generating long and coherent text is an important but challenging task, particularly for open-ended language generation tasks such as story generation. Despite the success in modeling intra-sentence coherence, existing generation models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Jian Guan , Xiaoxi Mao , Changjie Fan , Zitao Liu , Wenbiao Ding , Minlie Huang

Recently, there has been a surge in the use of generated data to enhance the performance of downstream models, largely due to the advancements in pre-trained language models. However, most prevailing methods trained generative and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Tong Wu , Hao Wang , Zhongshen Zeng , Wei Wang , Hai-Tao Zheng , Jiaxing Zhang

The dominant text generation models compose the output by sequentially selecting words from a fixed vocabulary. In this paper, we formulate text generation as progressively copying text segments (e.g., words or phrases) from an existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Tian Lan , Deng Cai , Yan Wang , Heyan Huang , Xian-Ling Mao

Generative commonsense reasoning refers to the task of generating acceptable and logical assumptions about everyday situations based on commonsense understanding. By utilizing an existing dataset such as Korean CommonGen, language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Dahyun Jung , Jaehyung Seo , Jaewook Lee , Chanjun Park , Heuiseok Lim

Incorporating prior knowledge like lexical constraints into the model's output to generate meaningful and coherent sentences has many applications in dialogue system, machine translation, image captioning, etc. However, existing RNN-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Dayiheng Liu , Jie Fu , Qian Qu , Jiancheng Lv

Text generation system has made massive promising progress contributed by deep learning techniques and has been widely applied in our life. However, existing end-to-end neural models suffer from the problem of tending to generate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Hao Wang , Bin Guo , Wei Wu , Zhiwen Yu

We study the problem of generating inferential texts of events for a variety of commonsense like \textit{if-else} relations. Existing approaches typically use limited evidence from training examples and learn for each relation individually.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Daya Guo , Akari Asai , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Ming Gong , Linjun Shou , Daxin Jiang , Jian Yin , Ming Zhou