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Table-to-text generation aims to generate a description for a factual table which can be viewed as a set of field-value records. To encode both the content and the structure of a table, we propose a novel structure-aware seq2seq…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Tianyu Liu , Kexiang Wang , Lei Sha , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui

With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), Controllable Text Generation (CTG) has become a critical technology for enhancing system reliability and user experience. Addressing the limitations of traditional methods, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yan Zhuang , Yuan Sun

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

Controllable text generation is a growing field within natural language generation (NLG) that focuses on producing text that meets specific constraints in real-world applications. Previous approaches, such as plug-and-play controllers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Hao Wang , Lei Sha

We study the problem of few-shot Fine-grained Entity Typing (FET), where only a few annotated entity mentions with contexts are given for each entity type. Recently, prompt-based tuning has demonstrated superior performance to standard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Jiaxin Huang , Yu Meng , Jiawei Han

Current end-to-end neural conversation models inherently lack the flexibility to impose semantic control in the response generation process, often resulting in uninteresting responses. Attempts to boost informativeness alone come at the…

Synthetic tabular data generation is increasingly essential in data management, supporting downstream applications when real-world and high-quality tabular data is insufficient. Existing tabular generation approaches, such as generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Mingxuan Jiang , Yongxin Wang , Ziyue Dai , Yicun Liu , Hongyi Nie , Sen Liu , Hongfeng Chai

Natural Language Inference Generation task is to generate a text hypothesis given a text premise and a logical relation between the two. This task can be used in data augmentation and controllable text generation in practice. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Kaijian Li , Shansan Gong , Kenny Q. Zhu

Tabular data is prevalent across various industries, necessitating significant time and effort for users to understand and manipulate for their information-seeking purposes. The advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yilun Zhao , Haowei Zhang , Shengyun Si , Linyong Nan , Xiangru Tang , Arman Cohan

Table-to-text generation aims at automatically generating text to help people conveniently obtain salient information in tables. Recent works explicitly decompose the generation process into content planning and surface generation stages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Liang Li , Ruiying Geng , Chengyang Fang , Bing Li , Can Ma , Binhua Li , Yongbin Li

In data-to-text (D2T) generation, training on in-domain data leads to overfitting to the data representation and repeating training data noise. We examine how to avoid finetuning pretrained language models (PLMs) on D2T generation datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Zdeněk Kasner , Ondřej Dušek

Controllable text generation (CTG) seeks to craft texts adhering to specific attributes, traditionally employing learning-based techniques such as training, fine-tuning, or prefix-tuning with attribute-specific datasets. These approaches,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Zijian Feng , Hanzhang Zhou , Zixiao Zhu , Kezhi Mao

Although remarkable progress on the neural table-to-text methods has been made, the generalization issues hinder the applicability of these models due to the limited source tables. Large-scale pretrained language models sound like a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Miao Chen , Xinjiang Lu , Tong Xu , Yanyan Li , Jingbo Zhou , Dejing Dou , Hui Xiong

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

Text generation from a knowledge base aims to translate knowledge triples to natural language descriptions. Most existing methods ignore the faithfulness between a generated text description and the original table, leading to generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Zhenyi Wang , Xiaoyang Wang , Bang An , Dong Yu , Changyou Chen

Controlling the length of text produced by large language models (LLMs) remains challenging: models frequently overshoot or undershoot explicit length instructions because they cannot reliably keep an internal token count. We present a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Juncheng Xie , Hung-yi Lee

Large transformer-based language models (LMs) trained on huge text corpora have shown unparalleled generation capabilities. However, controlling attributes of the generated language (e.g. switching topic or sentiment) is difficult without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Sumanth Dathathri , Andrea Madotto , Janice Lan , Jane Hung , Eric Frank , Piero Molino , Jason Yosinski , Rosanne Liu

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are deployed more widely, customization with respect to vocabulary, style, and character becomes more important. In this work, we introduce model arithmetic, a novel inference framework for composing and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Jasper Dekoninck , Marc Fischer , Luca Beurer-Kellner , Martin Vechev

Controlled Text Generation (CTG) aims to produce texts that exhibit specific desired attributes. In this study, we introduce a pluggable CTG framework for Large Language Models (LLMs) named Dynamic Attribute Graphs-based controlled text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Xun Liang , Hanyu Wang , Shichao Song , Mengting Hu , Xunzhi Wang , Zhiyu Li , Feiyu Xiong , Bo Tang

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