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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

Recent neural sequence-to-sequence models with a copy mechanism have achieved remarkable progress in various text generation tasks. These models addressed out-of-vocabulary problems and facilitated the generation of rare words. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Sanghyuk Choi , Jeong-in Hwang , Hyungjong Noh , Yeonsoo Lee

Most work on neural natural language generation (NNLG) focus on controlling the content of the generated text. We experiment with controlling several stylistic aspects of the generated text, in addition to its content. The method is based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Jessica Ficler , Yoav Goldberg

A long-standing issue with paraphrase generation is how to obtain reliable supervision signals. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised paradigm for paraphrase generation based on the assumption that the probabilities of generating two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Yuxian Meng , Xiang Ao , Qing He , Xiaofei Sun , Qinghong Han , Fei Wu , Chun fan , Jiwei Li

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

Semantic control entails steering LM generations towards satisfying subtle non-lexical constraints, e.g., toxicity, sentiment, or politeness, attributes that can be captured by a sequence-level verifier. It can thus be viewed as sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Kareem Ahmed , Catarina G Belem , Padhraic Smyth , Sameer Singh

Controllable text generation systems often leverage control codes to direct various properties of the output like style and length. Inspired by recent work on causal inference for NLP, this paper reveals a previously overlooked flaw in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Junyi Chai , Reid Pryzant , Victor Ye Dong , Konstantin Golobokov , Chenguang Zhu , Yi Liu

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

Paraphrase generation is a pivotal task in natural language processing (NLP). Existing datasets in the domain lack syntactic and lexical diversity, resulting in paraphrases that closely resemble the source sentences. Moreover, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Lasal Jayawardena , Prasan Yapa

An intuitive way for a human to write paraphrase sentences is to replace words or phrases in the original sentence with their corresponding synonyms and make necessary changes to ensure the new sentences are fluent and grammatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Shaohan Huang , Yu Wu , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

Recently, a plethora of works have proposed inference-time algorithms (e.g. best-of-n), which incorporate verifiers to assist the generation process. Their quality-efficiency trade-offs have been empirically benchmarked on a variety of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Edoardo Botta , Yuchen Li , Aashay Mehta , Jordan T. Ash , Cyril Zhang , Andrej Risteski

In this paper, we propose a novel model RevGAN that automatically generates controllable and personalized user reviews based on the arbitrarily given sentimental and stylistic information. RevGAN utilizes the combination of three novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Pan Li , Alexander Tuzhilin

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

Information-seeking conversation, which aims to help users gather information through conversation, has achieved great progress in recent years. However, the research is still stymied by the scarcity of training data. To alleviate this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Siheng Li , Cheng Yang , Yichun Yin , Xinyu Zhu , Zesen Cheng , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Yujiu Yang

The availability of high-quality APIs for Large Language Models (LLMs) has facilitated the widespread creation of Machine-Generated Content (MGC), posing challenges such as academic plagiarism and the spread of misinformation. Existing MGC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yupei Li , Manuel Milling , Lucia Specia , Björn W. Schuller

Paraphrase generation is a difficult problem. This is not only because of the limitations in text generation capabilities but also due that to the lack of a proper definition of what qualifies as a paraphrase and corresponding metrics to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Omkar Patil , Rahul Singh , Tarun Joshi

Paraphrasing is rooted in semantics. We show the effectiveness of transformers (Vaswani et al. 2017) for paraphrase generation and further improvements by incorporating PropBank labels via a multi-encoder. Evaluating on MSCOCO and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Su Wang , Rahul Gupta , Nancy Chang , Jason Baldridge

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are deployed more widely, customization with respect to vocabulary, style, and character becomes more important. In this work, we introduce model arithmetic, a novel inference framework for composing and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Jasper Dekoninck , Marc Fischer , Luca Beurer-Kellner , Martin Vechev

Paraphrase generation is an important and challenging natural language processing (NLP) task. In this work, we propose a deep generative model to generate paraphrase with diversity. Our model is based on an encoder-decoder architecture. An…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Zhecheng An , Sicong Liu

Multimodal conditionality in transformer-based natural language models has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in the task of product description generation. Recent approaches condition a language model on one or more images and other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Xiangyu Peng , Michael Sollami