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Learning to control the structure of sentences is a challenging problem in text generation. Existing work either relies on simple deterministic approaches or RL-based hard structures. We explore the use of structured variational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yao Fu , Chuanqi Tan , Bin Bi , Mosha Chen , Yansong Feng , Alexander M. Rush

Transforming unstructured text into structured data is a complex task, requiring semantic understanding, reasoning, and structural comprehension. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer potential, they often struggle with handling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Rajmohan C , Sarthak Harne , Arvind Agarwal

We present a method for rewriting an input sentence to match specific values of nontrivial linguistic features, such as dependency depth. In contrast to earlier work, our method uses in-context learning rather than finetuning, making it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Sarubi Thillainathan , Alexander Koller

As the open community of large language models (LLMs) matures, multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) have promised an elegant bridge between vision and language. However, current research is inherently constrained by challenges such as the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Dongsheng Wang , Jiequan Cui , Miaoge Li , Wang Lin , Bo Chen , Hanwang Zhang

Recent research has explored the constrained generation capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) when explicitly prompted by few task-specific requirements. In contrast, we introduce Large-Scale Constraint Generation (LSCG), a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Matteo Boffa , Jiaxuan You

Practicing conversations with large language models (LLMs) presents a promising alternative to traditional in-person language learning. However, most LLMs generate text at a near-native level of complexity, making them ill-suited for first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Meiqing Jin , Liam Dugan , Chris Callison-Burch

Text-to-video generation has shown promising results. However, by taking only natural languages as input, users often face difficulties in providing detailed information to precisely control the model's output. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Hsin-Ping Huang , Yu-Chuan Su , Deqing Sun , Lu Jiang , Xuhui Jia , Yukun Zhu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

We propose Future Discriminators for Generation (FUDGE), a flexible and modular method for controlled text generation. Given a pre-existing model G for generating text from a distribution of interest, FUDGE enables conditioning on a desired…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Kevin Yang , Dan Klein

We study the problem of controlling the difficulty level of text generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) for contexts where end-users are not fully proficient, such as language learners. Using a novel framework, we evaluate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Ali Malik , Stephen Mayhew , Chris Piech , Klinton Bicknell

In this work we study user controlled table-to-text generation where users explore the content in a table by selecting cells and reading a natural language description thereof automatically produce by a natural language generator. Such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Hanxu Hu , Yunqing Liu , Zhongyi Yu , Laura Perez-Beltrachini

Aligning language models (LMs) with user intent is becoming increasingly relevant to enhance user experience. This calls for designing methods that can allow users to control the properties of the language that LMs generate, for example,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Vinay Samuel , Harshita Diddee , Yiming Zhang , Daphne Ippolito

Controllable text generation is an appealing but challenging task, which allows users to specify particular attributes of the generated outputs. In this paper, we propose a controllable dialogue generation model to steer response generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Zhe Hu , Zhiwei Cao , Hou Pong Chan , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Jinsong Su , Hua Wu

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong reasoning capabilities, but their performance often degrades under distribution shift. Existing test-time adaptation (TTA) methods rely on gradient-based updates that require white-box access…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Kaiwen Zheng , Kai Zhou , Jinwu Hu , Te Gu , Mingkai Peng , Fei Liu

Pretrained language models (PLMs) have made remarkable progress in text generation tasks via fine-tuning. While, it is challenging to fine-tune PLMs in a data-scarce situation. Therefore, it is non-trivial to develop a general and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Junyi Li , Tianyi Tang , Jian-Yun Nie , Ji-Rong Wen , Wayne Xin Zhao

Despite substantial progress in text-to-video generation, achieving precise and flexible control over fine-grained spatiotemporal attributes remains a significant unresolved challenge in video generation research. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Xu Zhang , Hao Zhou , Haoming Qin , Xiaobin Lu , Jiaxing Yan , Guanzhong Wang , Zeyu Chen , Yi Liu

Advancements in natural language generation (NLG) and large language models (LLMs) have led to proficient text generation in various tasks. However, integrating intricate constraints into neural text generation, due to LLMs' opacity,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Xiang Chen , Xiaojun Wan

Emotion-controllable response generation is an attractive and valuable task that aims to make open-domain conversations more empathetic and engaging. Existing methods mainly enhance the emotion expression by adding regularization terms to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Lei Shen , Yang Feng

Scarcity of training data for task-oriented dialogue systems is a well known problem that is usually tackled with costly and time-consuming manual data annotation. An alternative solution is to rely on automatic text generation which,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Alice Coucke , Francesco Caltagirone , Alexandre Caulier , Marc Lelarge

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated immense potential across various tasks. However, research for exploring and improving the capabilities of LLMs in interpreting graph structures remains limited. To address this gap, we conduct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Jie He , Yijun Yang , Wanqiu Long , Deyi Xiong , Victor Gutierrez-Basulto , Jeff Z. Pan

Fast and reliable evaluation metrics are key to R&D progress. While traditional natural language generation metrics are fast, they are not very reliable. Conversely, new metrics based on large pretrained language models are much more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Moussa Kamal Eddine , Guokan Shang , Antoine J. -P. Tixier , Michalis Vazirgiannis