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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

Sequence generation applications require satisfying semantic constraints, such as ensuring that programs are correct, using certain keywords, or avoiding undesirable content. Language models, whether fine-tuned or prompted with few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Sean Welleck , Ximing Lu , Peter West , Faeze Brahman , Tianxiao Shen , Daniel Khashabi , Yejin Choi

Many text generation tasks naturally contain two steps: content selection and surface realization. Current neural encoder-decoder models conflate both steps into a black-box architecture. As a result, the content to be described in the text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Xiaoyu Shen , Jun Suzuki , Kentaro Inui , Hui Su , Dietrich Klakow , Satoshi Sekine

Constrained generative modeling is fundamental to applications such as robotic control and autonomous driving, where models must respect physical laws and safety-critical constraints. In real-world settings, these constraints rarely take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiaoxuan Liang , Saeid Naderiparizi , Yunpeng Liu , Berend Zwartsenberg , Frank Wood

Recently introduced generative adversarial network (GAN) has been shown numerous promising results to generate realistic samples. The essential task of GAN is to control the features of samples generated from a random distribution. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Minhyeok Lee , Junhee Seok

Generative videos have the potential to revolutionize game development by autonomously creating new content. In this paper, we present GameFactory, a framework for action-controlled scene-generalizable game video generation. We first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Jiwen Yu , Yiran Qin , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Xihui Liu

Despite the remarkable progress of 3D generation, achieving controllability, i.e., ensuring consistency between generated 3D content and input conditions like edge and depth, remains a significant challenge. Existing methods often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hongbin Xu , Chaohui Yu , Feng Xiao , Jiazheng Xing , Hai Ci , Weitao Chen , Fan Wang , Ming Li

To meet the requirements of real-world applications, it is essential to control generations of large language models (LLMs). Prior research has tried to introduce reinforcement learning (RL) into controllable text generation while most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Wendi Li , Wei Wei , Kaihe Xu , Wenfeng Xie , Dangyang Chen , Yu Cheng

Reinforcement learning (RL), a common tool in decision making, learns control policies from various experiences based on the associated cumulative return/rewards without treating them differently. Humans, on the contrary, often learn to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mingkang Wu , Devin White , Vernon Lawhern , Nicholas R. Waytowich , Yongcan Cao

Deep Generative AI has been a long-standing essential topic in the machine learning community, which can impact a number of application areas like text generation and computer vision. The major paradigm to train a generative model is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yuanjiang Cao , Quan Z. Sheng , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao

Existing LLM-based automatic test generation methods mainly produce input and expected output pairs to categorize the intended behavior of correct programs. Although straightforward, these methods have limited diversity in generated tests…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yujian Liu , Jiabao Ji , Yang Zhang , Wenbo Guo , Tommi Jaakkola , Shiyu Chang

Controlling the model to generate texts of different categories is a challenging task that is receiving increasing attention. Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown promising results for category text generation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Pengsen Cheng , Jinqiao Dai , Jiayong Liu

Generating safety-critical scenarios is essential for testing and verifying the safety of autonomous vehicles. Traditional optimization techniques suffer from the curse of dimensionality and limit the search space to fixed parameter spaces.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Haolan Liu , Liangjun Zhang , Siva Kumar Sastry Hari , Jishen Zhao

Large-scale video generative models can synthesize diverse and realistic visual content for dynamic world creation, but they often lack element-wise controllability, hindering their use in editing scenes and training embodied AI agents. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sicheng Mo , Ziyang Leng , Leon Liu , Weizhen Wang , Honglin He , Bolei Zhou

Background: Many different approaches to controlled text generation (CTG) have been proposed over recent years, but it is difficult to get a clear picture of which approach performs best, because different datasets and evaluation methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Michela Lorandi , Anya Belz

The finetuning of pretrained transformer-based language generation models are typically conducted in an end-to-end manner, where the model learns to attend to relevant parts of the input by itself. However, there does not exist a mechanism…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Jiabao Ji , Yoon Kim , James Glass , Tianxing He

Generative AI is quickly becoming an integral part of people's everyday workflows. Early evidence has shown that while generative AI can increase individual-level productivity, it does so at the cost of collective diversity, potentially…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Nathanael Jo , Manish Raghavan

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

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

An AI system for professional floor plan design must precisely control room dimensions and areas while respecting the desired connectivity between rooms and maintaining functional and aesthetic quality. Existing generative approaches focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Luis Lara , Aristides Milios , Zhi Hao Luo , Aditya Sharma , Ge Ya Luo , Christopher Beckham , Florian Golemo , Christopher Pal