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Controllable text generation (CTG) aims to generate text with desired attributes, and decoding-time-based methods have shown promising performance on this task. However, in this paper, we identify the phenomenon of Attribute Collapse for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Tianqi Zhong , Quan Wang , Jingxuan Han , Yongdong Zhang , Zhendong Mao

Edit-based approaches have recently shown promising results on multiple monolingual sequence transduction tasks. In contrast to conventional sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) models, which learn to generate text from scratch as they are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Kostiantyn Omelianchuk , Vipul Raheja , Oleksandr Skurzhanskyi

Self-supervised Pretrained Models (PTMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in computer vision and natural language processing tasks. These successes have prompted researchers to design PTMs for time series data. In our experiments,…

A syntactic language model (SLM) incrementally generates a sentence with its syntactic tree in a left-to-right manner. We present Generative Pretrained Structured Transformers (GPST), an unsupervised SLM at scale capable of being…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Xiang Hu , Pengyu Ji , Qingyang Zhu , Wei Wu , Kewei Tu

Despite the rapid advancement of unsupervised learning in visual representation, it requires training on large-scale datasets that demand costly data collection, and pose additional challenges due to concerns regarding data privacy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 David Junhao Zhang , Mutian Xu , Chuhui Xue , Wenqing Zhang , Xiaoguang Han , Song Bai , Mike Zheng Shou

While GPT-2 generates sentences that are remarkably human-like, longer documents can ramble and do not follow human-like writing structure. We study the problem of imposing structure on long-range text. We propose a novel controlled text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Alexander Spangher , Xinyu Hua , Yao Ming , Nanyun Peng

Discrete diffusion models are a powerful, emerging paradigm for code generation. They construct programs through iterative refinement of partially corrupted token sequences and enable parallel token refinement. Importantly, this paradigm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Lize Shao , Michael Cardei , Zichen Xie , Ferdinando Fioretto , Wenxi Wang

Neural text generation models conditioning on given input (e.g. machine translation and image captioning) are usually trained by maximum likelihood estimation of target text. However, the trained models suffer from various types of errors…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Keisuke Shirai , Kazuma Hashimoto , Akiko Eriguchi , Takashi Ninomiya , Shinsuke Mori

With the rapid advancement of intelligent transportation systems, text-driven image generation and editing techniques have demonstrated significant potential in providing rich, controllable visual scene data for applications such as traffic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Feng Lv , Haoxuan Feng , Zilu Zhang , Chunlong Xia , Yanfeng Li

Publicly available, large pretrained LanguageModels (LMs) generate text with remarkable quality, but only sequentially from left to right. As a result, they are not immediately applicable to generation tasks that break the unidirectional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Peter West , Ximing Lu , Ari Holtzman , Chandra Bhagavatula , Jena Hwang , Yejin Choi

Paraphrasing exemplifies the ability to abstract semantic content from surface forms. Recent work on automatic paraphrasing is dominated by methods leveraging Machine Translation (MT) as an intermediate step. This contrasts with humans, who…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Aurko Roy , David Grangier

Recent advances in diffusion models (DMs) have achieved exceptional visual quality in image editing tasks. However, the global denoising dynamics of DMs inherently conflate local editing targets with the full-image context, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Wei Chow , Linfeng Li , Lingdong Kong , Zefeng Li , Qi Xu , Hang Song , Tian Ye , Xian Wang , Jinbin Bai , Shilin Xu , Xiangtai Li , Junting Pan , Shaoteng Liu , Ran Zhou , Tianshu Yang , Songhua Liu

One of the challenges in text generation is to control text generation as intended by the user. Previous studies proposed specifying the keywords that should be included in the generated text. However, this approach is insufficient to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yuichi Sasazawa , Terufumi Morishita , Hiroaki Ozaki , Osamu Imaichi , Yasuhiro Sogawa

Text-conditioned molecular generation aims to translate natural-language descriptions into chemical structures, enabling scientists to specify functional groups, scaffolds, and physicochemical constraints without handcrafted rules.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lingxiao Li , Haobo Zhang , Bin Chen , Jiayu Zhou

Conditional neural text generation models generate high-quality outputs, but often concentrate around a mode when what we really want is a diverse set of options. We present a search algorithm to construct lattices encoding a massive number…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Jiacheng Xu , Siddhartha Reddy Jonnalagadda , Greg Durrett

Large language models (LLMs) show remarkable abilities with instruction tuning. However, they fail to achieve ideal tasks when lacking high-quality instruction tuning data on target tasks. Multi-Aspect Controllable Text Generation (MCTG) is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Chenyang Zhang , Jiayi Lin , Haibo Tong , Bingxuan Hou , Dongyu Zhang , Jialin Li , Junli Wang

Recent work on controlled text generation has either required attribute-based fine-tuning of the base language model (LM), or has restricted the parameterization of the attribute discriminator to be compatible with the base autoregressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah , Kartik Goyal , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Text-guided image generation aimed to generate desired images conditioned on given texts, while text-guided image manipulation refers to semantically edit parts of a given image based on specified texts. For these two similar tasks, the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Xiaozhou You , Jian Zhang

Diffusion models dominate image editing, yet their global denoising mechanism entangles edited regions with surrounding context, causing modifications to propagate into areas that should remain intact. We propose a fundamentally different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wei Chow , Linfeng Li , Xian Sun , Lingdong Kong , Zefeng Li , Qi Xu , Hang Song , Tian Ye , Xian Wang , Jinbin Bai , Shilin Xu , Xiangtai Li , Junting Pan , Shaoteng Liu , Ran Zhou , Tianshu Yang , Songhua Liu

In recent years, significant advancements have been made in text-driven 3D content generation. However, several challenges remain. In practical applications, users often provide extremely simple text inputs while expecting high-quality 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Huiqi Wu , Jianbo Mei , Yingjie Huang , Yining Xu , Jingjiao You , Yilong Liu , Li Yao