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This work introduces Focused-Variation Network (FVN), a novel model to control language generation. The main problems in previous controlled language generation models range from the difficulty of generating text according to the given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Lei Shu , Alexandros Papangelis , Yi-Chia Wang , Gokhan Tur , Hu Xu , Zhaleh Feizollahi , Bing Liu , Piero Molino

Due to the development of pre-trained language models, automated code generation techniques have shown great promise in recent years. However, the generated code is difficult to meet the syntactic constraints of the target language,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Guang Yang , Yu Zhou , Xiang Chen , Xiangyu Zhang , Yiran Xu , Tingting Han , Taolue Chen

Style-conditioned scene text generation faces unique challenges in extracting precise text styles from complex backgrounds and maintaining fine-grained style consistency across characters, especially for multilingual scripts. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zeyu Chen , Fangmin Zhao , Yan Shu , Yichao Liu , Liu Yu , Yu Zhou

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

While text-conditional 3D object generation and manipulation have seen rapid progress, the evaluation of coherence between generated 3D shapes and input textual descriptions lacks a clear benchmark. The reason is twofold: a) the low quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Andrea Amaduzzi , Giuseppe Lisanti , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

Large pre-trained language models are capable of generating varied and fluent texts. Starting from the prompt, these models generate a narrative that can develop unpredictably. The existing methods of controllable text generation, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sergey Vychegzhanin , Evgeny Kotelnikov

In this paper, we study the task of improving the cohesion and coherence of long-form text generated by language models. To this end, we propose RSTGen, a framework that utilises Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), a classical language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Rilwan A. Adewoyin , Ritabrata Dutta , Yulan He

Large-scale language models show promising text generation capabilities, but users cannot easily control particular aspects of the generated text. We release CTRL, a 1.63 billion-parameter conditional transformer language model, trained to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Nitish Shirish Keskar , Bryan McCann , Lav R. Varshney , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

It has always been an important yet challenging problem to control language models to avoid generating texts with undesirable attributes, such as toxic language and unnatural repetition. We introduce Click for controllable text generation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Chujie Zheng , Pei Ke , Zheng Zhang , Minlie Huang

Recent advances in neural network-based generative modeling have reignited the hopes in having computer systems capable of seamlessly conversing with humans and able to understand natural language. Neural architectures have been employed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Cristina Garbacea , Qiaozhu Mei

The increasing prevalence of Large Language Models (LMs) in critical applications highlights the need for controlled language generation strategies that are not only computationally efficient but that also enjoy performance guarantees. To…

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The topic-to-essay generation task is a challenging natural language generation task that aims to generate paragraph-level text with high semantic coherence based on a given set of topic words. Previous work has focused on the introduction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jieyong Wang , Chunyao Song , Yihao Wu

Large language models have shown unprecedented abilities in generating linguistically coherent and syntactically correct natural language output. However, they often return incorrect and inconsistent answers to input questions. Due to the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jasmin Mousavi , Arash Termehchy

Natural language generators for task-oriented dialogue must effectively realize system dialogue actions and their associated semantics. In many applications, it is also desirable for generators to control the style of an utterance. To date,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Shereen Oraby , Lena Reed , Shubhangi Tandon , T. S. Sharath , Stephanie Lukin , Marilyn Walker

We tackle the problem of generating audio samples conditioned on descriptive text captions. In this work, we propose AaudioGen, an auto-regressive generative model that generates audio samples conditioned on text inputs. AudioGen operates…

Controllable text generation is an appealing but challenging task, which allows users to specify particular attributes of the generated outputs. In this paper, we propose a controllable dialogue generation model to steer response generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Zhe Hu , Zhiwei Cao , Hou Pong Chan , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Jinsong Su , Hua Wu

Controllable Text Generation (CTG) has obtained great success due to its fine-grained generation ability obtained by focusing on multiple attributes. However, most existing CTG researches overlook how to utilize the attribute entanglement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shulin Huang , Shirong Ma , Yinghui Li , Yangning Li , Shiyang Lin , Hai-Tao Zheng , Ying Shen

Recent neural approaches to data-to-text generation have mostly focused on improving content fidelity while lacking explicit control over writing styles (e.g., word choices, sentence structures). More traditional systems use templates to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Shuai Lin , Wentao Wang , Zichao Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Frank F. Xu , Eric Xing , Zhiting Hu

Sequence generation applications require satisfying semantic constraints, such as ensuring that programs are correct, using certain keywords, or avoiding undesirable content. Language models, whether fine-tuned or prompted with few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Sean Welleck , Ximing Lu , Peter West , Faeze Brahman , Tianxiao Shen , Daniel Khashabi , Yejin Choi

Most of the existing text generative steganographic methods are based on coding the conditional probability distribution of each word during the generation process, and then selecting specific words according to the secret information, so…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Zhongliang Yang , Baitao Gong , Yamin Li , Jinshuai Yang , Zhiwen Hu , Yongfeng Huang