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Large language models generate fluent texts and can follow natural language instructions to solve a wide range of tasks without task-specific training. Nevertheless, it is notoriously difficult to control their generation to satisfy the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Wangchunshu Zhou , Yuchen Eleanor Jiang , Ethan Wilcox , Ryan Cotterell , Mrinmaya Sachan

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

Recently, the text-to-table generation task has attracted increasing attention due to its wide applications. In this aspect, the dominant model formalizes this task as a sequence-to-sequence generation task and serializes each table into a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Tong Li , Zhihao Wang , Liangying Shao , Xuling Zheng , Xiaoli Wang , Jinsong Su

Standard sequential generation methods assume a pre-specified generation order, such as text generation methods which generate words from left to right. In this work, we propose a framework for training models of text generation that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Sean Welleck , Kianté Brantley , Hal Daumé , Kyunghyun Cho

We propose Composition Sampling, a simple but effective method to generate diverse outputs for conditional generation of higher quality compared to previous stochastic decoding strategies. It builds on recently proposed plan-based neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Shashi Narayan , Gonçalo Simões , Yao Zhao , Joshua Maynez , Dipanjan Das , Michael Collins , Mirella Lapata

Current Text-to-audio (TTA) models mainly use coarse text descriptions as inputs to generate audio, which hinders models from generating audio with fine-grained control of content and style. Some studies try to improve the granularity by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Yuanyuan Wang , Hangting Chen , Dongchao Yang , Zhiyong Wu , Xixin Wu

We propose a novel conditioned text generation model. It draws inspiration from traditional template-based text generation techniques, where the source provides the content (i.e., what to say), and the template influences how to say it.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Hao Peng , Ankur P. Parikh , Manaal Faruqui , Bhuwan Dhingra , Dipanjan Das

Controllable text generation systems often leverage control codes to direct various properties of the output like style and length. Inspired by recent work on causal inference for NLP, this paper reveals a previously overlooked flaw in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Junyi Chai , Reid Pryzant , Victor Ye Dong , Konstantin Golobokov , Chenguang Zhu , Yi Liu

Transforming unstructured text into structured data is a complex task, requiring semantic understanding, reasoning, and structural comprehension. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer potential, they often struggle with handling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Rajmohan C , Sarthak Harne , Arvind Agarwal

Controlled text generation is a very important task in the arena of natural language processing due to its promising applications. In order to achieve this task we mainly introduce the novel soft prompt tuning method of using soft prompts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Damith Chamalke Senadeera , Julia Ive

Non-autoregressive generation (NAG) has recently attracted great attention due to its fast inference speed. However, the generation quality of existing NAG models still lags behind their autoregressive counterparts. In this work, we show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Yixuan Su , Deng Cai , Yan Wang , David Vandyke , Simon Baker , Piji Li , Nigel Collier

Human dialogue contains evolving concepts, and speakers naturally associate multiple concepts to compose a response. However, current dialogue models with the seq2seq framework lack the ability to effectively manage concept transitions and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Yicheng Zou , Zhihua Liu , Xingwu Hu , Qi Zhang

Pretrained Transformer-based language models (LMs) display remarkable natural language generation capabilities. With their immense potential, controlling text generation of such LMs is getting attention. While there are studies that seek to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Alvin Chan , Yew-Soon Ong , Bill Pung , Aston Zhang , Jie Fu

Logical Natural Language Generation, i.e., generating textual descriptions that can be logically entailed by a structured table, has been a challenge due to the low fidelity of the generation. \citet{chen2020logic2text} have addressed this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ao Liu , Congjian Luo , Naoaki Okazaki

Text-based audio generation models have limitations as they cannot encompass all the information in audio, leading to restricted controllability when relying solely on text. To address this issue, we propose a novel model that enhances the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Zhifang Guo , Jianguo Mao , Rui Tao , Long Yan , Kazushige Ouchi , Hong Liu , Xiangdong Wang

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

Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion/flow models have recently achieved remarkable progress in visual fidelity and text alignment. However, they remain limited when users need to precisely control image layouts, something that natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Amadou S. Sangare , Adrien Maglo , Mohamed Chaouch , Bertrand Luvison

In this work we study user controlled table-to-text generation where users explore the content in a table by selecting cells and reading a natural language description thereof automatically produce by a natural language generator. Such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Hanxu Hu , Yunqing Liu , Zhongyi Yu , Laura Perez-Beltrachini

Controllers for structured LM reasoning (e.g., Chain-of-Thought, self-consistency, and Tree-of-Thoughts) often entangle what to try next with how to execute it, exposing only coarse global knobs and yielding brittle, compute-inefficient,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Abhinav Madahar

Generating natural language statements to convey logical inferences from tabular data (i.e., Logical NLG) is a process with one input and a variety of valid outputs. This characteristic underscores the need for a method to produce a diverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Yotam Perlitz , Liat Ein-Dor , Dafna Sheinwald , Noam Slonim , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer