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Aligning language models (LMs) with user intent is becoming increasingly relevant to enhance user experience. This calls for designing methods that can allow users to control the properties of the language that LMs generate, for example,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Vinay Samuel , Harshita Diddee , Yiming Zhang , Daphne Ippolito

Generating synthetic tabular data under severe class imbalance is essential for domains where rare but high-impact events drive decision-making. However, most generative models either overlook minority groups or fail to produce samples that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Milosh Devic , Jordan Gierschendorf , David Garson

With the rapid progress of LLMs, high quality generative text has become widely available as a cover for text steganography. However, prevailing methods rely on hand-crafted or pre-specified strategies and struggle to balance efficiency,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Jiuan Zhou , Yu Cheng , Yuan Xie , Zhaoxia Yin

Audio autoencoders learn useful, compressed audio representations, but their non-linear latent spaces prevent intuitive algebraic manipulation such as mixing or scaling. We introduce a simple training methodology to induce linearity in a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Bernardo Torres , Manuel Moussallam , Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal

Recent generative adversarial networks (GANs) are able to generate impressive photo-realistic images. However, controllable generation with GANs remains a challenging research problem. Achieving controllable generation requires semantically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Grigorios G Chrysos , Jean Kossaifi , Zhiding Yu , Anima Anandkumar

Despite the tremendous success in text-to-image generative models, localized text-to-image generation (that is, generating objects or features at specific locations in an image while maintaining a consistent overall generation) still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yutong He , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , J. Zico Kolter

Vector-quantized autoencoders deliver high-fidelity latents but suffer inherent flaws: the quantizer is non-differentiable, requires straight-through hacks, and is prone to collapse. We address these issues at the root by replacing VQ with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Hao Lu , Onur C. Koyun , Yongxin Guo , Zhengjie Zhu , Abbas Alili , Metin Nafi Gurcan

As the basis of generative AI, an autoregressive model requires the generation of a new token depending on all the previously generated tokens, which brings high quality but also restricts the model to generate tokens one by one, forming a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Zixian Huang , Chenxu Niu , Yu Gu , Gengyang Xiao , Xinwei Huang , Gong Cheng

Concept bottleneck models (CBM) aim to produce inherently interpretable models that rely on human-understandable concepts for their predictions. However, existing approaches to design interpretable generative models based on CBMs are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Akshay Kulkarni , Ge Yan , Chung-En Sun , Tuomas Oikarinen , Tsui-Wei Weng

In this paper, we describe the "implicit autoencoder" (IAE), a generative autoencoder in which both the generative path and the recognition path are parametrized by implicit distributions. We use two generative adversarial networks to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Alireza Makhzani

Existing work on controlled text generation (CTG) assumes a control interface of categorical attributes. In this work, we propose a natural language (NL) interface, where we craft a PCFG to embed the control attributes into natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Jingyu Zhang , James Glass , Tianxing He

This article describes the application of a credible autocoding framework for control systems towards a nonlinear car controller example. The framework generates code, along with guarantees of high level functional properties about the code…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Timothy Wang , Eric Feron

In our previous work, we proposed a discriminative autoencoder (DcAE) for speech recognition. DcAE combines two training schemes into one. First, since DcAE aims to learn encoder-decoder mappings, the squared error between the reconstructed…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Hung-Shin Lee , Pin-Tuan Huang , Yao-Fei Cheng , Hsin-Min Wang

Recent work in synthetic data generation in the time-series domain has focused on the use of Generative Adversarial Networks. We propose a novel architecture for synthetically generating time-series data with the use of Variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Abhyuday Desai , Cynthia Freeman , Zuhui Wang , Ian Beaver

Plug-and-play language models (PPLMs) enable topic-conditioned natural language generation by pairing large pre-trained generators with attribute models used to steer the predicted token distribution towards the selected topic. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Ginevra Carbone , Gabriele Sarti

Deep generative models have been widely used for their ability to generate realistic data samples in various areas, such as images, molecules, text, and speech. One major goal of data generation is controllability, namely to generate new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Bo Pan , Muran Qin , Shiyu Wang , Yifei Zhang , Liang Zhao

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are deep generative latent variable models that can be used for learning the distribution of complex data. VAEs have been successfully used to learn a probabilistic prior over speech signals, which is then…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Mostafa Sadeghi , Simon Leglaive , Xavier Alameda-PIneda , Laurent Girin , Radu Horaud

Neural controllable text generation is an important area gaining attention due to its plethora of applications. Although there is a large body of prior work in controllable text generation, there is no unifying theme. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Shrimai Prabhumoye , Alan W Black , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Recent advances in large pre-trained language models have demonstrated strong results in generating natural languages and significantly improved performances for many natural language generation (NLG) applications such as machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Nanyun Peng

Motion forecasting in highly interactive scenarios is a challenging problem in autonomous driving. In such scenarios, we need to accurately predict the joint behavior of interacting agents to ensure the safe and efficient navigation of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Lingfeng Sun , Chen Tang , Yaru Niu , Enna Sachdeva , Chiho Choi , Teruhisa Misu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan