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In this paper, we use a large-scale play scripts dataset to propose the novel task of theatrical cue generation from dialogues. Using over one million lines of dialogue and cues, we approach the problem of cue generation as a controlled…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionised the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and have achieved state-of-the-art performance in practically every task in this field. However, the prevalent approach used in text generation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Nicolo Micheletti , Samuel Belkadi , Lifeng Han , Goran Nenadic

Deep generative models, while revolutionizing fields like image and text generation, largely operate as opaque ``black boxes'', hindering human understanding, control, and alignment. While methods like sparse autoencoders (SAEs) show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Lingjing Kong , Shaoan Xie , Guangyi Chen , Yuewen Sun , Xiangchen Song , Eric P. Xing , Kun Zhang

In Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated high text generation quality. However, in real-world applications, LLMs must meet increasingly complex requirements. Beyond avoiding misleading or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Xun Liang , Hanyu Wang , Yezhaohui Wang , Shichao Song , Jiawei Yang , Simin Niu , Jie Hu , Dan Liu , Shunyu Yao , Feiyu Xiong , Zhiyu Li

Multi-aspect controllable text generation aims to control text generation in attributes from multiple aspects, making it a complex but powerful task in natural language processing. Supervised fine-tuning methods are often employed for this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Chenyu Zhu , Yefeng Liu , Chenyang Lyu , Xue Yang , Guanhua Chen , Longyue Wang , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang

Large-scale language models show promising text generation capabilities, but users cannot easily control particular aspects of the generated text. We release CTRL, a 1.63 billion-parameter conditional transformer language model, trained to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Nitish Shirish Keskar , Bryan McCann , Lav R. Varshney , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

The previous work on controllable text generation is organized using a new schema we provide in this study. Seven components make up the schema, and each one is crucial to the creation process. To accomplish controlled generation for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-01 Arnav Goel , Medha Hira , Avinash Anand , Siddhesh Bangar , Rajiv Ratn Shah

We study attribute control in language models through the method of Causal Average Treatment Effect (Causal ATE). Existing methods for the attribute control task in Language Models (LMs) check for the co-occurrence of words in a sentence…

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Deep generative models have shown tremendous capability in data density estimation and data generation from finite samples. While these models have shown impressive performance by learning correlations among features in the data, some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Aneesh Komanduri , Xintao Wu , Yongkai Wu , Feng Chen

Lexically constrained text generation is one of the constrained text generation tasks, which aims to generate text that covers all the given constraint lexicons. While the existing approaches tackle this problem using a lexically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Hayate Iso

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

Previous work on controllable text generation has explored the idea of control from the latent space, such as optimizing a representation with attribute-related classifiers or sampling a representation from relevant discrete samples.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yuxuan Gu , Xiaocheng Feng , Sicheng Ma , Lingyuan Zhang , Heng Gong , Weihong Zhong , Bing Qin

Understanding the causal effects of text on downstream outcomes is a central task in many applications. Estimating such effects requires researchers to run controlled experiments that systematically vary textual features. While large…

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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…

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As the text generation capabilities of large language models become increasingly prominent, recent studies have focused on controlling particular aspects of the generated text to make it more personalized. However, most research on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Bashar Alhafni , Vivek Kulkarni , Dhruv Kumar , Vipul Raheja

Large Transformer-based language models can aid human authors by suggesting plausible continuations of text written so far. However, current interactive writing assistants do not allow authors to guide text generation in desired topical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Haw-Shiuan Chang , Jiaming Yuan , Mohit Iyyer , Andrew McCallum

Existing reference-free metrics have obvious limitations for evaluating controlled text generation models. Unsupervised metrics can only provide a task-agnostic evaluation result which correlates weakly with human judgments, whereas…

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Readability refers to how easily a reader can understand a written text. Several factors affect the readability level, such as the complexity of the text, its subject matter, and the reader's background knowledge. Generating summaries based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Mohit Bansal , Markus Dreyer

We propose a Distributional Approach for addressing Controlled Text Generation from pre-trained Language Models (LMs). This approach permits to specify, in a single formal framework, both "pointwise" and "distributional" constraints over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Muhammad Khalifa , Hady Elsahar , Marc Dymetman

Recent advances in neural-based generative modeling have reignited the hopes of having computer systems capable of conversing with humans and able to understand natural language. The employment of deep neural architectures has been largely…

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