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Transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance in natural language processing and related domains, as they largely focus on sequential, autoregressive next-token prediction tasks. Yet, they struggle in logical reasoning, not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Renee Ge , Qianli Liao , Tomaso Poggio

Humans excel at discovering regular structures from limited samples and applying inferred rules to novel settings. We investigate whether modern generative models can similarly learn underlying rules from finite samples and perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Binxu Wang , Jiaqi Shang , Haim Sompolinsky

Text classification is one of the most widely studied tasks in natural language processing. Motivated by the principle of compositionality, large multilayer neural network models have been employed for this task in an attempt to effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Devendra Singh Sachan , Manzil Zaheer , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

The discriminative approach to classification using deep neural networks has become the de-facto standard in various fields. Complementing recent reservations about safety against adversarial examples, we show that conventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-25 William Wang , Angelina Wang , Aviv Tamar , Xi Chen , Pieter Abbeel

The use of discriminators to train or fine-tune generative models has proven to be a rather successful framework. A notable example is Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) that minimize a loss incurred by training discriminators along…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Hisham Husain , Valentin De Bortoli , Richard Nock

Recent advances in deep learning have enabled the generation of realistic data by training generative models on large datasets of text, images, and audio. While these models have demonstrated exceptional performance in generating novel and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-17 Izumi Takahara , Kiyou Shibata , Teruyasu Mizoguchi

While recent advances in language modeling have resulted in powerful generation models, their generation style remains implicitly dependent on the training data and can not emulate a specific target style. Leveraging the generative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Hrituraj Singh , Gaurav Verma , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

This work pioneers the utilization of generative features in enhancing audio understanding. Unlike conventional discriminative features that directly optimize posterior and thus emphasize semantic abstraction while losing fine grained…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zeyu Xie , Chenxing Li , Xuenan Xu , Mengyue Wu , Wenfu Wang , Ruibo Fu , Meng Yu , Dong Yu , Yuexian Zou

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have known a tremendous success for many continuous generation tasks, especially in the field of image generation. However, for discrete outputs such as language, optimizing GANs remains an open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Sylvain Lamprier , Thomas Scialom , Antoine Chaffin , Vincent Claveau , Ewa Kijak , Jacopo Staiano , Benjamin Piwowarski

Diffusion models have demonstrated significant potential in achieving state-of-the-art performance across various text generation tasks. In this systematic study, we investigate their application to the table-to-text problem by adapting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Aleksei S. Krylov , Oleg D. Somov

This paper introduces a bi-discriminator GAN for synthesizing tabular datasets containing continuous, binary, and discrete columns. Our proposed approach employs an adapted preprocessing scheme and a novel conditional term for the generator…

One of the most significant challenges in statistical signal processing and machine learning is how to obtain a generative model that can produce samples of large-scale data distribution, such as images and speeches. Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Pegah Salehi , Abdolah Chalechale , Maryam Taghizadeh

One popular generative model that has high-quality results is the Generative Adversarial Networks(GAN). This type of architecture consists of two separate networks that play against each other. The generator creates an output from the input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Arjun Karuvally

Representing examples in a way that is compatible with the underlying classifier can greatly enhance the performance of a learning system. In this paper we investigate scalable techniques for inducing discriminative features by taking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-09 Nikos Karampatziakis , Paul Mineiro

In text generation, models that generate text from scratch one token at a time are currently the dominant paradigm. Despite being performant, these models lack the ability to revise existing text, which limits their usability in many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Machel Reid , Vincent J. Hellendoorn , Graham Neubig

Synthetic text generation is challenging and has limited success. Recently, a new architecture, called Transformers, allow machine learning models to understand better sequential data, such as translation or summarization. BERT and GPT-2,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Dimas Munoz Montesinos

While generative models have seen significant adoption across a wide range of data modalities, including 3D data, a consensus on which model is best suited for which task has yet to be reached. Further, conditional information such as text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Matthias Humt , Ulrich Hillenbrand , Rudolph Triebel

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

We introduce Transformer Grammars (TGs), a novel class of Transformer language models that combine (i) the expressive power, scalability, and strong performance of Transformers and (ii) recursive syntactic compositions, which here are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Laurent Sartran , Samuel Barrett , Adhiguna Kuncoro , Miloš Stanojević , Phil Blunsom , Chris Dyer

Large language models (LLMs) have reached human-like proficiency in generating diverse textual content, underscoring the necessity for effective fake text detection to avoid potential risks such as fake news in social media. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Zhixin Lai , Xuesheng Zhang , Suiyao Chen