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A wide range of control perspectives have been explored in controllable text generation. Structure-controlled summarization is recently proposed as a useful and interesting research direction. However, current structure-controlling methods…

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Abstract. Automatically generating scientific literature surveys is a valuable task that can significantly enhance research efficiency. However, the diverse and complex nature of information within a literature survey poses substantial…

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Large Language Models have recently been applied to text annotation tasks from social sciences, equalling or surpassing the performance of human workers at a fraction of the cost. However, no inquiry has yet been made on the impact of…

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Extractive summarization plays a pivotal role in natural language processing due to its wide-range applications in summarizing diverse content efficiently, while also being faithful to the original content. Despite significant advancement…

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Precisely controlling the length of generated text is a common requirement in real-world applications. However, despite significant advancements in following human instructions, Large Language Models (LLMs) still struggle with this task. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Meiman Xiao , Ante Wang , Qingguo Hu , Zhongjian Miao , Huangjun Shen , Longyue Wang , Weihua Luo , Jinsong Su

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has enabled the automated processing of lengthy documents even without supervised training on a task-specific dataset. Yet, their zero-shot performance in complex tasks as opposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 WonJin Yoon , Boyu Ren , Spencer Thomas , Chanhwi Kim , Guergana Savova , Mei-Hua Hall , Timothy Miller

Transformer-based models have achieved state-of-the-art results in a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks including document summarization. Typically these systems are trained by fine-tuning a large pre-trained model to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Potsawee Manakul , Mark J. F. Gales

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

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the development of language models capable of generating text with controllable attributes. While several approaches have been proposed, many of these methods require condition-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Shangda Wu , Maosong Sun

During the pre-training step of natural language models, the main objective is to learn a general representation of the pre-training dataset, usually requiring large amounts of textual data to capture the complexity and diversity of natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Tobias Deußer , Cong Zhao , Wolfgang Krämer , David Leonhard , Christian Bauckhage , Rafet Sifa

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the capacity to improve summary quality by mirroring a human-like iterative process of critique and refinement starting from the initial draft. Two strategies are designed to perform this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shichao Sun , Ruifeng Yuan , Ziqiang Cao , Wenjie Li , Pengfei Liu

The Pointer-Generator architecture has shown to be a big improvement for abstractive summarization seq2seq models. However, the summaries produced by this model are largely extractive as over 30% of the generated sentences are copied from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Freek Boutkan , Jorn Ranzijn , David Rau , Eelco van der Wel

Abstractive summarization using large language models (LLMs) has become an essential tool for condensing information. However, despite their ability to generate fluent summaries, these models sometimes produce unfaithful summaries,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sicong Huang , Qianqi Yan , Shengze Wang , Ian Lane

Pointer generator networks have been used successfully for abstractive summarization. Along with the capability to generate novel words, it also allows the model to copy from the input text to handle out-of-vocabulary words. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Kushal Chawla , Kundan Krishna , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

Abstractive summarization models are commonly trained using maximum likelihood estimation, which assumes a deterministic (one-point) target distribution in which an ideal model will assign all the probability mass to the reference summary.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yixin Liu , Pengfei Liu , Dragomir Radev , Graham Neubig

In recent times, extracting valuable information from large text is making significant progress. Especially in the current era of social media, people expect quick bites of information. Automatic text summarization seeks to tackle this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Sindhu Nair , Y. S. Rao , Radha Shankarmani

In this paper, we propose an adversarial process for abstractive text summarization, in which we simultaneously train a generative model G and a discriminative model D. In particular, we build the generator G as an agent of reinforcement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Linqing Liu , Yao Lu , Min Yang , Qiang Qu , Jia Zhu , Hongyan Li

Large language models (LLMs) are widely used for open-ended tasks, but underspecified prompts can lead to low-quality answers and additional interaction. This paper studies whether structured prompt design improves response quality while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Saurav Ghosh , Gabriella Polach , Abdou Sow

Recent work pre-training Transformers with self-supervised objectives on large text corpora has shown great success when fine-tuned on downstream NLP tasks including text summarization. However, pre-training objectives tailored for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Jingqing Zhang , Yao Zhao , Mohammad Saleh , Peter J. Liu

Despite the fact that image captioning models have been able to generate impressive descriptions for a given image, challenges remain: (1) the controllability and diversity of existing models are still far from satisfactory; (2) models…

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