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Natural language generation systems (NLG) map non-linguistic representations into strings of words through a number of steps using intermediate representations of various levels of abstraction. Template based systems, by contrast, tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Emanuele Pianta , Lucia M. Tovena

We present \textsc{Vx2Text}, a framework for text generation from multimodal inputs consisting of video plus text, speech, or audio. In order to leverage transformer networks, which have been shown to be effective at modeling language, each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Xudong Lin , Gedas Bertasius , Jue Wang , Shih-Fu Chang , Devi Parikh , Lorenzo Torresani

Token prediction stability remains a challenge in autoregressive generative models, where minor variations in early inference steps often lead to significant semantic drift over extended sequences. A structured modulation mechanism was…

Advancements in language foundation models have primarily fueled the recent surge in artificial intelligence. In contrast, generative learning of non-textual modalities, especially videos, significantly trails behind language modeling. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Lijun Yu

We present a generative model for multitask conditional language generation. Our guiding hypothesis is that a shared set of latent skills underlies many disparate language generation tasks, and that explicitly modelling these skills in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Kris Cao , Dani Yogatama

In this paper, we tackle the task of definition modeling, where the goal is to learn to generate definitions of words and phrases. Existing approaches for this task are discriminative, combining distributional and lexical semantics in an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Machel Reid , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Yutaka Matsuo

In this paper, we propose a novel deep coherence model (DCM) using a convolutional neural network architecture to capture the text coherence. The text coherence problem is investigated with a new perspective of learning sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Baiyun Cui , Yingming Li , Yaqing Zhang , Zhongfei Zhang

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) are rapidly emerging as a powerful and promising alternative to the dominant autoregressive (AR) paradigm. By generating tokens in parallel through an iterative denoising process, DLMs possess inherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Tianyi Li , Mingda Chen , Bowei Guo , Zhiqiang Shen

Text-driven motion generation offers a powerful and intuitive way to create human movements directly from natural language. By removing the need for predefined motion inputs, it provides a flexible and accessible approach to controlling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Ali Rida Sahili , Najett Neji , Hedi Tabia

Text generation is a fundamental building block in natural language processing tasks. Existing sequential models performs autoregression directly over the text sequence and have difficulty generating long sentences of complex structures.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Qipeng Guo , Xipeng Qiu , Xiangyang Xue , Zheng Zhang

While neural, encoder-decoder models have had significant empirical success in text generation, there remain several unaddressed problems with this style of generation. Encoder-decoder models are largely (a) uninterpretable, and (b)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Sam Wiseman , Stuart M. Shieber , Alexander M. Rush

In this article we show how the problem of neural text generation can be constructively reformulated in terms of transitions between the states of a finite-state machine. This framework leads to an efficient approach to guiding text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Brandon T. Willard , Rémi Louf

Neural text generation models are often autoregressive language models or seq2seq models. These models generate text by sampling words sequentially, with each word conditioned on the previous word, and are state-of-the-art for several…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-02 William Fedus , Ian Goodfellow , Andrew M. Dai

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) trained with flow matching in a VAE latent space have unified visual generation across images and videos. A natural next step toward a single architecture for both generation (visual synthesis) and understanding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jiaxiu Jiang , Jingjing Ren , Wenbo Li , Bo Wang , Haoze Sun , Yijun Yang , Jianhui Liu , Yanbing Zhang , Shenghe Zheng , Yuan Zhang , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Wangmeng Zuo

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable high-quality image synthesis while avoiding excessive compute demands by training a diffusion model in a compressed lower-dimensional latent space. Here, we apply the LDM paradigm to high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach , Huan Ling , Tim Dockhorn , Seung Wook Kim , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

Deep generative models (DGM) are neural networks with many hidden layers trained to approximate complicated, high-dimensional probability distributions using a large number of samples. When trained successfully, we can use the DGMs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Lars Ruthotto , Eldad Haber

End-to-end design of dialogue systems has recently become a popular research topic thanks to powerful tools such as encoder-decoder architectures for sequence-to-sequence learning. Yet, most current approaches cast human-machine dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Florian Strub , Harm de Vries , Jeremie Mary , Bilal Piot , Aaron Courville , Olivier Pietquin

Fine-tuning pre-trained generative language models to down-stream language generation tasks has shown promising results. However, this comes with the cost of having a single, large model for each task, which is not ideal in low-memory/power…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Zhaojiang Lin , Andrea Madotto , Pascale Fung

Advanced machine learning and natural language techniques enable attackers to launch sophisticated and targeted social engineering-based attacks. To counter the active attacker issue, researchers have since resorted to proactive methods of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Avisha Das , Rakesh M. Verma

This paper summarises the experimental setup and results of the first shared task on end-to-end (E2E) natural language generation (NLG) in spoken dialogue systems. Recent end-to-end generation systems are promising since they reduce the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Ondřej Dušek , Jekaterina Novikova , Verena Rieser