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With recent advances in large language models (LLMs), the concept of automatically generating children's educational materials has become increasingly realistic. Working toward the goal of age-appropriate simplicity in generated educational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Maria Valentini , Jennifer Weber , Jesus Salcido , Téa Wright , Eliana Colunga , Katharina Kann

Recent research has highlighted the significance of natural language in enhancing the controllability of generative models. While various efforts have been made to leverage natural language for content generation, research on deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-25 In-Chang Baek , Sung-Hyun Kim , Seo-Young Lee , Dong-Hyeon Kim , Kyung-Joong Kim

While large language models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive instruction-following capabilities, it is still unclear whether and to what extent they can respond to explicit constraints that might be entailed in various instructions. As a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Yihan Chen , Benfeng Xu , Quan Wang , Yi Liu , Zhendong Mao

Powerful large language models have facilitated the development of writing assistants that promise to significantly improve the quality and efficiency of composition and communication. However, a barrier to effective assistance is the lack…

Controlling the attribute intensity of text generation is crucial across scenarios (e.g., writing conciseness, chatting emotion, and explanation clarity). The remarkable capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Shang Zhou , Feng Yao , Chengyu Dong , Zihan Wang , Jingbo Shang

Large-scale Causal Language Models (CLMs), e.g., GPT3 and ChatGPT, have brought great success in text generation. However, it is still an open challenge to control the generation process of CLM while balancing flexibility, control…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Hanqing Zhang , Sun Si , Haiming Wu , Dawei Song

Teaching large language models (LLMs) to critique and refine their outputs is crucial for building systems that can iteratively improve, yet it is fundamentally limited by the ability to provide accurate judgments and actionable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhihui Xie , Jie Chen , Liyu Chen , Weichao Mao , Jingjing Xu , Lingpeng Kong

Search-based test generators are effective at producing unit tests with high coverage. However, such automatically generated tests have no meaningful test and variable names, making them hard to understand and interpret by developers. On…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Matteo Biagiola , Gianluca Ghislotti , Paolo Tonella

Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok have been deeply integrated into our daily life. They now support a wide range of tasks -- from dialogue and email drafting to assisting with teaching and coding, serving as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Hongyi Zhou , Jin Zhu , Ying Yang , Chengchun Shi

Safe deployment of large language models (LLMs) may benefit from a reliable method for assessing their generated content to determine when to abstain or to selectively generate. While likelihood-based metrics such as perplexity are widely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Jie Ren , Yao Zhao , Tu Vu , Peter J. Liu , Balaji Lakshminarayanan

The remarkable ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to understand and follow instructions has sometimes been limited by their in-context learning (ICL) performance in low-resource languages. To address this, we introduce a novel approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Xiaoqian Li , Ercong Nie , Sheng Liang

Citation generation aims to generate a citation sentence that refers to a chosen paper in the context of a manuscript. However, a rigid citation generation process is at odds with an author's desire to control specific attributes, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Nianlong Gu , Richard H. R. Hahnloser

This paper presents a novel self-supervised learning method for handling conversational documents consisting of transcribed text of human-to-human conversations. One of the key technologies for understanding conversational documents is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Ryo Masumura , Naoki Makishima , Mana Ihori , Akihiko Takashima , Tomohiro Tanaka , Shota Orihashi

As the text generation capabilities of large language models become increasingly prominent, recent studies have focused on controlling particular aspects of the generated text to make it more personalized. However, most research on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Bashar Alhafni , Vivek Kulkarni , Dhruv Kumar , Vipul Raheja

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) holds great promise as a tool to support personalized learning. Teachers need tools to efficiently and effectively enhance content readability of educational texts so that they are matched to…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable performance across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, fine-tuning these models often necessitates substantial supervision, which can be expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jing-Cheng Pang , Pengyuan Wang , Kaiyuan Li , Xiong-Hui Chen , Jiacheng Xu , Zongzhang Zhang , Yang Yu

Recent advancements in generative modeling emphasize the importance of natural language as a highly expressive and accessible modality for controlling content generation. However, existing instructed reinforcement learning for procedural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Sung-Hyun Kim , Geum-Hwan Hwang , In-Chang Baek , Seo-Young Lee , Kyung-Joong Kim

Computational social science (CSS) practitioners often rely on human-labeled data to fine-tune supervised text classifiers. We assess the potential for researchers to augment or replace human-generated training data with surrogate training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Nicholas Pangakis , Samuel Wolken

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

Story understanding and generation have long been a challenging task in natural language processing (NLP), especially when dealing with various levels of instruction specificity. In this paper, we propose a novel approach called "Weak to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yangshu Yuan , Heng Chen , Christian Ng