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Real-world text applications often involve composing a wide range of text control operations, such as editing the text w.r.t. an attribute, manipulating keywords and structure, and generating new text of desired properties. Prior work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Guangyi Liu , Zeyu Feng , Yuan Gao , Zichao Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Junwei Bao , Xiaodong He , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li , Zhiting Hu

Deep learning methods have recently achieved great empirical success on machine translation, dialogue response generation, summarization, and other text generation tasks. At a high level, the technique has been to train end-to-end neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Ziang Xie

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

Controllable generation is one of the key requirements for successful adoption of deep generative models in real-world applications, but it still remains as a great challenge. In particular, the compositional ability to generate novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Weili Nie , Arash Vahdat , Anima Anandkumar

Data availability is a bottleneck during early stages of development of new capabilities for intelligent artificial agents. We investigate the use of text generation techniques to augment the training data of a popular commercial artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Nikolaos Malandrakis , Minmin Shen , Anuj Goyal , Shuyang Gao , Abhishek Sethi , Angeliki Metallinou

Large-scale transformer-based language models (LMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities in open text generation. However, controlling the generated text's properties such as the topic, style, and sentiment is challenging and often requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Rohola Zandie , Mohammad H. Mahoor

While large language models (LLMs) have made significant strides in generating coherent and contextually relevant text, they often function as opaque black boxes, trained on vast unlabeled datasets with statistical objectives, lacking an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Yingbing Huang , Deming Chen , Abhishek K. Umrawal

Cross-domain natural language generation (NLG) is still a difficult task within spoken dialogue modelling. Given a semantic representation provided by the dialogue manager, the language generator should generate sentences that convey…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Florian Kreyssig , Pawel Budzianowski , Inigo Casanueva , Yen-Chen Wu , Stefan Ultes , Milica Gasic

The encoder-decoder dialog model is one of the most prominent methods used to build dialog systems in complex domains. Yet it is limited because it cannot output interpretable actions as in traditional systems, which hinders humans from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Tiancheng Zhao , Kyusong Lee , Maxine Eskenazi

In this paper, we propose a model using generative adversarial net (GAN) to generate realistic text. Instead of using standard GAN, we combine variational autoencoder (VAE) with generative adversarial net. The use of high-level latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Heng Wang , Zengchang Qin , Tao Wan

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

This paper presents an in-depth survey on the use of multimodal Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and autoregressive Large Language Models (LLMs) for human motion understanding and generation, offering insights into emerging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Muhammad Islam , Tao Huang , Euijoon Ahn , Usman Naseem

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) provide a theoretically-backed and popular framework for deep generative models. However, learning a VAE from data poses still unanswered theoretical questions and considerable practical challenges. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Partha Ghosh , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Antonio Vergari , Michael Black , Bernhard Schölkopf

This paper proposes a neural sequence-to-sequence text-to-speech (TTS) model which can control latent attributes in the generated speech that are rarely annotated in the training data, such as speaking style, accent, background noise, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Wei-Ning Hsu , Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Heiga Zen , Yonghui Wu , Yuxuan Wang , Yuan Cao , Ye Jia , Zhifeng Chen , Jonathan Shen , Patrick Nguyen , Ruoming Pang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated a powerful ability for text generation. However, achieving optimal results with a given prompt or instruction can be challenging, especially for billion-sized models. Additionally, undesired…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Lifu Tu , Semih Yavuz , Jin Qu , Jiacheng Xu , Rui Meng , Caiming Xiong , Yingbo Zhou

Controllable text generation concerns two fundamental tasks of wide applications, namely generating text of given attributes (i.e., attribute-conditional generation), and minimally editing existing text to possess desired attributes (i.e.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zhiting Hu , Li Erran Li

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

As large-scale language model pretraining pushes the state-of-the-art in text generation, recent work has turned to controlling attributes of the text such models generate. While modifying the pretrained models via fine-tuning remains the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Sachin Kumar , Eric Malmi , Aliaksei Severyn , Yulia Tsvetkov

The ability of learning disentangled representations represents a major step for interpretable NLP systems as it allows latent linguistic features to be controlled. Most approaches to disentanglement rely on continuous variables, both for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Giangiacomo Mercatali , André Freitas

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced their knowledge and generative capabilities, leading to a surge of interest in leveraging LLMs for high-quality data synthesis. However, synthetic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Ying Zhou , Xinyao Wang , Yulei Niu , Yaojie Shen , Lexin Tang , Fan Chen , Ben He , Le Sun , Longyin Wen