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Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and GPT-4 have attracted great attention given their surprising performance on a wide range of NLP tasks. Length controlled generation of LLMs emerges as an important topic, which enables users to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Renlong Jie , Xiaojun Meng , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

There has been an explosion of work in the vision & language community during the past few years from image captioning to video transcription, and answering questions about images. These tasks have focused on literal descriptions of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Nasrin Mostafazadeh , Ishan Misra , Jacob Devlin , Margaret Mitchell , Xiaodong He , Lucy Vanderwende

The task of Critical Questions Generation (CQs-Gen) aims to foster critical thinking by enabling systems to generate questions that expose underlying assumptions and challenge the validity of argumentative reasoning structures. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Banca Calvo Figueras , Rodrigo Agerri

We introduce a theory-driven mechanism for learning a neural network model that performs generative topology design in one shot given a problem setting, circumventing the conventional iterative process that computational design tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Ruijin Cang , Hope Yao , Yi Ren

We study the new problem of automatic question generation (QG) from multi-modal sources containing images and texts, significantly expanding the scope of most of the existing work that focuses exclusively on QG from only textual sources. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Zichao Wang , Richard Baraniuk

We explore the use of large pretrained language models as few-shot semantic parsers. The goal in semantic parsing is to generate a structured meaning representation given a natural language input. However, language models are trained to…

This study explores automatic generation (AIG) using language models to create multiple choice questions (MCQs) for morphological assessment, aiming to reduce the cost and inconsistency of manual test development. The study used a two-fold…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Mohammad Amini , Babak Ahmadi , Xiaomeng Xiong , Yilin Zhang , Christopher Qiao

In this paper, we propose Docprompt for document question answering tasks with powerful zero-shot and few-shot performance. We proposed a novel weakly supervised data generation method, a novel multl-stage training method and a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Sijin Wu , Dan Zhang , Teng Hu , Shikun Feng

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

Few-shot prompting and step-by-step reasoning have enhanced the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in tackling complex tasks including code generation. In this paper, we introduce a prompt selection and augmentation algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 On Tai Wu , Frodo Kin Sun Chan , Zunhao Zhang , Yan Nei Law , Benny Drescher , Edmond Shiao Bun Lai

Large language models (LLMs) have attracted great attention given their strong performance on a wide range of NLP tasks. In practice, users often expect generated texts to fall within a specific length range, making length controlled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Renlong Jie , Xiaojun Meng , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

Automatic question generation according to an answer within the given passage is useful for many applications, such as question answering system, dialogue system, etc. Current neural-based methods mostly take two steps which extract several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Yutong Wang , Jiyuan Zheng , Qijiong Liu , Zhou Zhao , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang

Acquiring training data to improve the robustness of dialog systems can be a painstakingly long process. In this work, we propose a method to reduce the cost and effort of creating new conversational agents by artificially generating more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Louis Marceau , Raouf Belbahar , Marc Queudot , Nada Naji , Eric Charton , Marie-Jean Meurs

In this paper, we explore effective prompting techniques to enhance zero- and few-shot Visual Question Answering (VQA) performance in contemporary Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Central to our investigation is the role of question templates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Rabiul Awal , Le Zhang , Aishwarya Agrawal

The neural seq2seq based question generation (QG) is prone to generating generic and undiversified questions that are poorly relevant to the given passage and target answer. In this paper, we propose two methods to address the issue. (1) By…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Jiazuo Qiu , Deyi Xiong

Pre-trained language models (PLM) have achieved remarkable advancement in table-to-text generation tasks. However, the lack of labeled domain-specific knowledge and the topology gap between tabular data and text make it difficult for PLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zhixin Guo , Minyxuan Yan , Jiexing Qi , Jianping Zhou , Ziwei He , Zhouhan Lin , Guanjie Zheng , Xinbing Wang

Large pre-trained language models have repeatedly shown their ability to produce fluent text. Yet even when starting from a prompt, generation can continue in many plausible directions. Current decoding methods with the goal of controlling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Damian Pascual , Beni Egressy , Clara Meister , Ryan Cotterell , Roger Wattenhofer

We present open domain response generation with meta-words. A meta-word is a structured record that describes various attributes of a response, and thus allows us to explicitly model the one-to-many relationship within open domain dialogues…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Can Xu , Wei Wu , Chongyang Tao , Huang Hu , Matt Schuerman , Ying Wang

Question generation (QG) is a natural language generation task where a model is trained to ask questions corresponding to some input text. Most recent approaches frame QG as a sequence-to-sequence problem and rely on additional features and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Luis Enrico Lopez , Diane Kathryn Cruz , Jan Christian Blaise Cruz , Charibeth Cheng

Motion control is crucial for generating expressive and compelling video content; however, most existing video generation models rely mainly on text prompts for control, which struggle to capture the nuances of dynamic actions and temporal…