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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

Recent conditional image generation methods produce images of remarkable diversity, fidelity and realism. However, the majority of these methods allow conditioning only on labels or text prompts, which limits their level of control over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Dina Bashkirova , Jose Lezama , Kihyuk Sohn , Kate Saenko , Irfan Essa

Large-scale language models (LMs) pretrained on massive corpora of text, such as GPT-2, are powerful open-domain text generators. However, as our systematic examination reveals, it is still challenging for such models to generate coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Bowen Tan , Zichao Yang , Maruan AI-Shedivat , Eric P. Xing , Zhiting Hu

Text generation in image-based platforms, particularly for music-related content, requires precise control over text styles and the incorporation of emotional expression. However, existing approaches often need help to control the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Yuelyu Ji , Yuheng Song , Wei Wang , Ruoyi Xu , Zhongqian Xie , Huiyun Liu

Steering language generation towards objectives or away from undesired content has been a long-standing goal in utilizing language models (LM). Recent work has demonstrated reinforcement learning and weighted decoding as effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Minbeom Kim , Hwanhee Lee , Kang Min Yoo , Joonsuk Park , Hwaran Lee , Kyomin Jung

We consider the task of text generation in language models with constraints specified in natural language. To this end, we first create a challenging benchmark Cognac that provides as input to the model a topic with example text, along with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Howard Chen , Huihan Li , Danqi Chen , Karthik Narasimhan

Paraphrase generation is a longstanding NLP task that has diverse applications for downstream NLP tasks. However, the effectiveness of existing efforts predominantly relies on large amounts of golden labeled data. Though unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Kaize Ding , Dingcheng Li , Alexander Hanbo Li , Xing Fan , Chenlei Guo , Yang Liu , Huan Liu

In the paraphrase generation task, source sentences often contain phrases that should not be altered. Which phrases, however, can be context dependent and can vary by application. Our solution to this challenge is to provide the user with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Mohan Zhang , Luchen Tan , Zhengkai Tu , Zihang Fu , Kun Xiong , Ming Li , Jimmy Lin

Existing machine-generated text (MGT) detection methods implicitly assume labels as the "golden standard". However, we reveal boundary ambiguity in MGT detection, implying that traditional training paradigms are inexact. Moreover,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Chenwang Wu , Yiu-ming Cheung , Bo Han , Defu Lian

Neural text generation models are often autoregressive language models or seq2seq models. These models generate text by sampling words sequentially, with each word conditioned on the previous word, and are state-of-the-art for several…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-02 William Fedus , Ian Goodfellow , Andrew M. Dai

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

This paper focuses on automatically generating the text of an ad, and the goal is that the generated text can capture user interest for achieving higher click-through rate (CTR). We propose CREATER, a CTR-driven advertising text generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Penghui Wei , Xuanhua Yang , Shaoguo Liu , Liang Wang , Bo Zheng

Constrained text generation remains a challenging task, particularly when dealing with hard constraints. Traditional NLP approaches prioritize generating meaningful and coherent output. Also, the current state-of-the-art methods often lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Alexandre Bonlarron , Jean-Charles Régin

As a pragmatic data augmentation tool, data synthesis has generally returned dividends in performance for deep learning based medical image analysis. However, generating corresponding segmentation masks for synthetic medical images is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Xiaodan Xing , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

Sentence compression reduces the length of text by removing non-essential content while preserving important facts and grammaticality. Unsupervised objective driven methods for sentence compression can be used to create customized models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Demian Gholipour Ghalandari , Chris Hokamp , Georgiana Ifrim

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionised the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and have achieved state-of-the-art performance in practically every task in this field. However, the prevalent approach used in text generation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Nicolo Micheletti , Samuel Belkadi , Lifeng Han , Goran Nenadic

Recent advances in deep neural language models combined with the capacity of large scale datasets have accelerated the development of natural language generation systems that produce fluent and coherent texts (to various degrees of success)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Cristina Garbacea , Qiaozhu Mei

In a controllable text generation dataset, there exist unannotated attributes that could provide irrelevant learning signals to models that use it for training and thus degrade their performance. We propose focused prefix tuning(FPT) to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Congda Ma , Tianyu Zhao , Makoto Shing , Kei Sawada , Manabu Okumura

Recent text-to-image generation favors various forms of spatial conditions, e.g., masks, bounding boxes, and key points. However, the majority of the prior art requires form-specific annotations to fine-tune the original model, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Z. Zhang , B. Liu , J. Bao , L. Chen , S. Zhu , J. Yu

Recent advancements in generative models have revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence, enabling the creation of highly-realistic and detailed images. In this study, we propose a novel Mask Conditional Text-to-Image Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Rami Skaik , Leonardo Rossi , Tomaso Fontanini , Andrea Prati