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The recent emergence of machine-learning based generative models for speech suggests a significant reduction in bit rate for speech codecs is possible. However, the performance of generative models deteriorates significantly with the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-22 W. Bastiaan Kleijn , Andrew Storus , Michael Chinen , Tom Denton , Felicia S. C. Lim , Alejandro Luebs , Jan Skoglund , Hengchin Yeh

Retrieval-augmented generation integrates the capabilities of large language models with relevant information retrieved from an extensive corpus, yet encounters challenges when confronted with real-world noisy data. One recent solution is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kun Zhu , Xiaocheng Feng , Xiyuan Du , Yuxuan Gu , Weijiang Yu , Haotian Wang , Qianglong Chen , Zheng Chu , Jingchang Chen , Bing Qin

Spoken communication occurs in a "noisy channel" characterized by high levels of environmental noise, variability within and between speakers, and lexical and syntactic ambiguity. Given these properties of the received linguistic input,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Stephan C. Meylan , Sathvik Nair , Thomas L. Griffiths

We introduce the concept of a generative infinite game, a video game that transcends the traditional boundaries of finite, hard-coded systems by using generative models. Inspired by James P. Carse's distinction between finite and infinite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jialu Li , Yuanzhen Li , Neal Wadhwa , Yael Pritch , David E. Jacobs , Michael Rubinstein , Mohit Bansal , Nataniel Ruiz

An additive noise channel is considered, in which the distribution of the noise is nonparametric and unknown. The problem of learning encoders and decoders based on noise samples is considered. For uncoded communication systems, the problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Nir Weinberger

Generative dialogue models currently suffer from a number of problems which standard maximum likelihood training does not address. They tend to produce generations that (i) rely too much on copying from the context, (ii) contain repetitions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Margaret Li , Stephen Roller , Ilia Kulikov , Sean Welleck , Y-Lan Boureau , Kyunghyun Cho , Jason Weston

The global crisis of language endangerment meets a technological turning point as Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) unlock new frontiers in automating corpus creation, transcription, translation, and tutoring. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Vincent Koc

We propose a simple and effective modeling framework for controlled generation of multiple, diverse outputs. We focus on the setting of generating the next sentence of a story given its context. As controllable dimensions, we consider…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Lifu Tu , Xiaoan Ding , Dong Yu , Kevin Gimpel

Unconditional generation -- the problem of modeling data distribution without relying on human-annotated labels -- is a long-standing and fundamental challenge in generative models, creating a potential of learning from large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Tianhong Li , Dina Katabi , Kaiming He

Despite significant advancements in natural language generation, controlling language models to produce texts with desired attributes remains a formidable challenge. In this work, we introduce RSA-Control, a training-free controllable text…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yifan Wang , Vera Demberg

In recent years, large language models (LLM) have made significant progress in the task of generation error correction (GER) for automatic speech recognition (ASR) post-processing. However, in complex noisy environments, they still face…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yanyan Liu , Minqiang Xu , Yihao Chen , Liang He , Lei Fang , Sian Fang , Lin Liu

We introduce an algorithm for the uniform generation of infinite traces, i.e., infinite words up to commutation of some letters. The algorithm outputs on-the-fly approximations of a theoretical infinite trace, the latter being distributed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Samy Abbes , Vincent Jugé

Natural language generation systems (NLG) map non-linguistic representations into strings of words through a number of steps using intermediate representations of various levels of abstraction. Template based systems, by contrast, tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Emanuele Pianta , Lucia M. Tovena

Recent advances in large pre-trained language models have demonstrated strong results in generating natural languages and significantly improved performances for many natural language generation (NLG) applications such as machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Nanyun Peng

Modern generative and vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used in scientific and medical decision support, where predicted probabilities must be both accurate and well calibrated. Despite strong empirical results with moderate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Paul M. Thompson

Natural language generation (NLG) is one of the most impactful fields in NLP, and recent years have witnessed its evolution brought about by large language models (LLMs). As the key instrument for writing assistance applications, they are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Minghui Zhang , Alex Sokolov , Weixin Cai , Si-Qing Chen

Cross-lingual evaluation of large language models (LLMs) typically conflates two sources of variance: genuine model performance differences and measurement instability. We investigate evaluation reliability by holding generation conditions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Isaac Chung , Linda Freienthal

In this paper we propose a novel model for unconditional audio generation based on generating one audio sample at a time. We show that our model, which profits from combining memory-less modules, namely autoregressive multilayer…

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

Text-based audio generation models have limitations as they cannot encompass all the information in audio, leading to restricted controllability when relying solely on text. To address this issue, we propose a novel model that enhances the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Zhifang Guo , Jianguo Mao , Rui Tao , Long Yan , Kazushige Ouchi , Hong Liu , Xiangdong Wang