English
Related papers

Related papers: Language Generation with Infinite Contamination

200 papers

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

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used across various applications, there is a growing need to control text generation to satisfy specific constraints or requirements. This raises a crucial question: Is it possible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Minbeom Kim , Thibaut Thonet , Jos Rozen , Hwaran Lee , Kyomin Jung , Marc Dymetman

Trustworthiness of generative language models (GLMs) is crucial in their deployment to critical decision making systems. Hence, certified risk control methods such as selective prediction and conformal prediction have been applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Minjae Lee , Kyungmin Kim , Taesoo Kim , Sangdon Park

We consider the task of text generation in language models with constraints specified in natural language. To this end, we first create a challenging benchmark Cognac that provides as input to the model a topic with example text, along with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Howard Chen , Huihan Li , Danqi Chen , Karthik Narasimhan

Text generation under constraints have seen increasing interests in natural language processing, especially with the rapidly improving capabilities of large language models. However, existing benchmarks for constrained generation usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Shunyu Yao , Howard Chen , Austin W. Hanjie , Runzhe Yang , Karthik Narasimhan

The present work analyzes the redundancy of sets of combinatorial objects produced by a weighted random generation algorithm proposed by Denise et al. This scheme associates weights to the terminals symbols of a weighted context-free…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-07 Danièle Gardy , Yann Ponty

This work aims to employ natural language generation (NLG) to rapidly generate items for English language learning applications: this requires both language models capable of generating fluent, high-quality English, and to control the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Kevin Stowe , Debanjan Ghosh , Mengxuan Zhao

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

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

Code generation, symbolic math reasoning, and other tasks require LLMs to produce outputs that are both syntactically and semantically correct. Constrained LLM generation is a promising direction to enforce adherence to formal grammar, but…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Debangshu Banerjee , Tarun Suresh , Shubham Ugare , Sasa Misailovic , Gagandeep Singh

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant progress in various areas, such as text generation and code synthesis. However, the reliability of performance evaluation has come under scrutiny due to data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yuxing Cheng , Yi Chang , Yuan Wu

We address the non-redundant random generation of $k$ words of length $n$ in a context-free language. Additionally, we want to avoid a predefined set of words. We study a rejection-based approach, whose worst-case time complexity is shown…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-05 Andy Lorenz , Yann Ponty

To ensure that text generated by large language models (LLMs) is in an expected format, constrained decoding proposes to enforce strict formal language constraints during generation. However, as we show in this work, not only do such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Luca Beurer-Kellner , Marc Fischer , Martin Vechev

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

Neural language models often fail to generate diverse and informative texts, limiting their applicability in real-world problems. While previous approaches have proposed to address these issues by identifying and penalizing undesirable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Jimin Hong , ChaeHun Park , Jaegul Choo

While recent studies have looked into the abilities of large language models in various benchmark tasks, including question generation, reading comprehension, multilingual and etc, there have been few studies looking into the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jiao Sun , Yufei Tian , Wangchunshu Zhou , Nan Xu , Qian Hu , Rahul Gupta , John Frederick Wieting , Nanyun Peng , Xuezhe Ma

With recent advances in large language models (LLMs), the concept of automatically generating children's educational materials has become increasingly realistic. Working toward the goal of age-appropriate simplicity in generated educational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Maria Valentini , Jennifer Weber , Jesus Salcido , Téa Wright , Eliana Colunga , Katharina Kann

With the advances of deep learning techniques, text generation is attracting increasing interest in the artificial intelligence (AI) community, because of its wide applications and because it is an essential component of AI. Traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Lili Mou

While most research on controllable text generation has focused on steering base Language Models, the emerging instruction-tuning and prompting paradigm offers an alternate approach to controllability. We compile and release ConGenBench, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Dhananjay Ashok , Barnabas Poczos

We address the non-redundant random generation of k words of length n from a context-free language. Additionally, we want to avoid a predefined set of words. We study the limits of a rejection-based approach, whose time complexity is shown…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-22 Yann Ponty