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Memory-efficient large language models are good at refining text input for better readability. However, controllability is a matter of concern when it comes to text generation tasks with long inputs, such as multi-document summarization. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Litton J Kurisinkel , Nancy F chen

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Wenhong Zhu , Hongkun Hao , Rui Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel controllable text-to-image generative adversarial network (ControlGAN), which can effectively synthesise high-quality images and also control parts of the image generation according to natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Bowen Li , Xiaojuan Qi , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Philip H. S. Torr

In E-commerce, a key challenge in text generation is to find a good trade-off between word diversity and accuracy (relevance) in order to make generated text appear more natural and human-like. In order to improve the relevance of generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Huajie Shao , Jun Wang , Haohong Lin , Xuezhou Zhang , Aston Zhang , Heng Ji , Tarek Abdelzaher

We develop an approach for text-to-image generation that embraces additional retrieval images, driven by a combination of implicit visual guidance loss and generative objectives. Unlike most existing text-to-image generation methods which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Xin Yuan , Zhe Lin , Jason Kuen , Jianming Zhang , John Collomosse

This paper proposes a novel neural model for the understudied task of generating text from keywords. The model takes as input a set of un-ordered keywords, and part-of-speech (POS) based template instructions. This makes it ideal for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Abhijit Mishra , Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury , Sagar Manohar , Dan Gutfreund , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

Controlled text generation is very important for the practical use of language models because it ensures that the produced text includes only the desired attributes from a specific domain or dataset. Existing methods, however, are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sangwon Yu , Changmin Lee , Hojin Lee , Sungroh Yoon

Transformer-based language models have shown to be very powerful for natural language generation (NLG). However, text generation conditioned on some user inputs, such as topics or attributes, is non-trivial. Past approach relies on either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Fan-Keng Sun , Cheng-I Lai

Conditional neural text generation models generate high-quality outputs, but often concentrate around a mode when what we really want is a diverse set of options. We present a search algorithm to construct lattices encoding a massive number…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Jiacheng Xu , Siddhartha Reddy Jonnalagadda , Greg Durrett

The existing image captioning approaches typically train a one-stage sentence decoder, which is difficult to generate rich fine-grained descriptions. On the other hand, multi-stage image caption model is hard to train due to the vanishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Jiuxiang Gu , Jianfei Cai , Gang Wang , Tsuhan Chen

Despite the extensive success of pretrained language models as encoders for building NLP systems, they haven't seen prominence as decoders for sequence generation tasks. We explore the question of whether these models can be adapted to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Nishant Subramani , Nivedita Suresh

Self-correction has demonstrated potential in code generation by allowing language models to revise and improve their outputs through successive refinement. Recent studies have explored prompting-based strategies that incorporate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jeonghun Cho , Deokhyung Kang , Hyounghun Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Recent advances in conditional generative image models have enabled impressive results. On the one hand, text-based conditional models have achieved remarkable generation quality, by leveraging large-scale datasets of image-text pairs. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Arantxa Casanova , Marlène Careil , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Christopher J. Pal , Jakob Verbeek , Michal Drozdzal

Recent works have sought to enhance the controllability and precision of text-driven motion generation. Some approaches leverage large language models (LLMs) to produce more detailed texts, while others incorporate global 3D coordinate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Keming Shen , Bizhu Wu , Junliang Chen , Xiaoqin Wang , Linlin Shen

Large pre-trained language models are capable of generating varied and fluent texts. Starting from the prompt, these models generate a narrative that can develop unpredictably. The existing methods of controllable text generation, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sergey Vychegzhanin , Evgeny Kotelnikov

Recent language modeling performance has been greatly improved by the use of external memory. This memory encodes the context so that similar contexts can be recalled during decoding. This similarity depends on how the model learns to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Severino Trotta , Lucie Flek , Charles Welch

Generating music from text descriptions is a user-friendly mode since the text is a relatively easy interface for user engagement. While some approaches utilize texts to control music audio generation, editing musical elements in generated…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Peiling Lu , Xin Xu , Chenfei Kang , Botao Yu , Chengyi Xing , Xu Tan , Jiang Bian

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality image generation and editing, but guiding these models to produce specific outputs remains a challenge. Conventional approaches rely on conditioning mechanisms, such as text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Nithesh Chandher Karthikeyan , Jonas Unger , Gabriel Eilertsen

Current controls over diffusion models (e.g., through text or ControlNet) for image generation fall short in recognizing abstract, continuous attributes like illumination direction or non-rigid shape change. In this paper, we present an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Ta-Ying Cheng , Matheus Gadelha , Thibault Groueix , Matthew Fisher , Radomir Mech , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Recent work has framed constrained text generation with autoregressive language models as a probabilistic inference problem. Among these, Zhao et al. (2024) introduced a promising approach based on twisted Sequential Monte Carlo, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sooyeon Kim , Giung Nam , Byoungwoo Park , Juho Lee