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This paper proposes a simple method for controllable text generation based on weighting logits with a free-form classifier, namely CAIF sampling. Using an arbitrary text classifier, we adjust a small part of a language model's logits and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Askhat Sitdikov , Nikita Balagansky , Daniil Gavrilov , Alexander Markov

Controllable text generation concerns two fundamental tasks of wide applications, namely generating text of given attributes (i.e., attribute-conditional generation), and minimally editing existing text to possess desired attributes (i.e.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zhiting Hu , Li Erran Li

Existing reference-free metrics have obvious limitations for evaluating controlled text generation models. Unsupervised metrics can only provide a task-agnostic evaluation result which correlates weakly with human judgments, whereas…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Pei Ke , Hao Zhou , Yankai Lin , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

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

Despite the success of Large Language Models (LLMs) on various tasks following human instructions, controlling model generation at inference time poses a persistent challenge. In this paper, we introduce Ctrl-G, an adaptable framework that…

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Text-driven diffusion models have unlocked unprecedented abilities in image generation, whereas their video counterpart still lags behind due to the excessive training cost of temporal modeling. Besides the training burden, the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yabo Zhang , Yuxiang Wei , Dongsheng Jiang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Qi Tian

This work aims to employ natural language generation (NLG) to rapidly generate items for English language learning applications: this requires both language models capable of generating fluent, high-quality English, and to control the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Kevin Stowe , Debanjan Ghosh , Mengxuan Zhao

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

The Diffusion Transformer plays a pivotal role in advancing text-to-image and text-to-video generation, owing primarily to its inherent scalability. However, existing controlled diffusion transformer methods incur significant parameter and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ke Cao , Jing Wang , Ao Ma , Jiasong Feng , Xuanhua He , Run Ling , Haowei Liu , Jian Lu , Wei Feng , Haozhe Wang , Hongjuan Pei , Yihua Shao , Zhanjie Zhang , Jie Zhang

With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), Controllable Text Generation (CTG) has become a critical technology for enhancing system reliability and user experience. Addressing the limitations of traditional methods, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yan Zhuang , Yuan Sun

Prompt learning with immensely large Casual Language Models (CLMs) has been shown promising for attribute-controllable text generation (CTG). However, vanilla prompt tuning tends to imitate training corpus characteristics beyond the control…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Hanqing Zhang , Dawei Song

Controlling output length in neural language generation is valuable in many scenarios, especially for the tasks that have length constraints. A model with stronger length control capacity can produce sentences with more specific length,…

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Generative AI has demonstrated strong potential in healthcare, from clinical decision support to patient-facing chatbots that improve outcomes. A critical challenge for deployment is effective human-AI communication, where content must be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Hieu Tran , Zonghai Yao , Won Seok Jang , Sharmin Sultana , Allen Chang , Yuan Zhang , Hong Yu

While large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance in generating fluent and realistic text, controlling the generated text so that it exhibits properties such as safety, factuality, and non-toxicity remains challenging.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Meng Cao , Mehdi Fatemi , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung , Samira Shabanian

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

Large transformer-based language models (LMs) trained on huge text corpora have shown unparalleled generation capabilities. However, controlling attributes of the generated language (e.g. switching topic or sentiment) is difficult without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Sumanth Dathathri , Andrea Madotto , Janice Lan , Jane Hung , Eric Frank , Piero Molino , Jason Yosinski , Rosanne Liu

Controlled text generation (CTG) seeks to guide large language model (LLM) output to produce text that conforms to desired criteria. The current study presents a novel CTG algorithm that enforces adherence toward specific rhetorical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Joshua Zingale , Jugal Kalita

Generic generation and manipulation of text is challenging and has limited success compared to recent deep generative modeling in visual domain. This paper aims at generating plausible natural language sentences, whose attributes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Zhiting Hu , Zichao Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Eric P. Xing

Existing pre-trained large language models have shown unparalleled generative capabilities. However, they are not controllable. In this paper, we propose MEGATRON-CNTRL, a novel framework that uses large-scale language models and adds…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Peng Xu , Mostofa Patwary , Mohammad Shoeybi , Raul Puri , Pascale Fung , Anima Anandkumar , Bryan Catanzaro

In this paper, we propose a novel controllable text-to-image generative adversarial network (ControlGAN), which can effectively synthesise high-quality images and also control parts of the image generation according to natural language…

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