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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

Recent advances in the capacity of large language models to generate human-like text have resulted in their increased adoption in user-facing settings. In parallel, these improvements have prompted a heated discourse around the risks of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Sachin Kumar , Vidhisha Balachandran , Lucille Njoo , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Yulia Tsvetkov

Generating dictionary definitions automatically can prove useful for language learners. However, it's still a challenging task of cross-lingual definition generation. In this work, we propose to generate definitions in English for words in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Cunliang Kong , Liner Yang , Tianzuo Zhang , Qinan Fan , Zhenghao Liu , Yun Chen , Erhong Yang

Large AI Models (LAIMs), of which large language models are the most prominent recent example, showcase some impressive performance. However they have been empirically found to pose serious security issues. This paper systematizes our…

Kleinberg and Mullainathan (2024) recently proposed a formal framework called language generation in the limit and showed that given a sequence of example strings from an unknown target language drawn from any countable collection, an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yannan Bai , Debmalya Panigrahi , Ian Zhang

Generative models have shown impressive capabilities in synthesizing high-quality outputs across various domains. However, a persistent challenge is the occurrence of "hallucinations", where the model produces outputs that are plausible but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Changlong Wu , Ananth Grama , Wojciech Szpankowski

Despite the impressive capabilities of large language models (LLMs) across diverse applications, they still suffer from trustworthiness issues, such as hallucinations and misalignments. Retrieval-augmented language models (RAG) have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Mintong Kang , Nezihe Merve Gürel , Ning Yu , Dawn Song , Bo Li

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown great promise recently in image generation. Training GANs for language generation has proven to be more difficult, because of the non-differentiable nature of generating text with recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Ofir Press , Amir Bar , Ben Bogin , Jonathan Berant , Lior Wolf

Free-text rationales justify model decisions in natural language and thus become likable and accessible among approaches to explanation across many tasks. However, their effectiveness can be hindered by misinterpretation and hallucination.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yi-Sheng Hsu , Nils Feldhus , Sherzod Hakimov

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

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

Large language models generate fluent texts and can follow natural language instructions to solve a wide range of tasks without task-specific training. Nevertheless, it is notoriously difficult to control their generation to satisfy the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Wangchunshu Zhou , Yuchen Eleanor Jiang , Ethan Wilcox , Ryan Cotterell , Mrinmaya Sachan

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

Conditional text generation often requires lexical constraints, i.e., which words should or shouldn't be included in the output text. While the dominant recipe for conditional text generation has been large-scale pretrained language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Ximing Lu , Peter West , Rowan Zellers , Ronan Le Bras , Chandra Bhagavatula , Yejin Choi

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

Multilingual generation with large language models (LLMs) is often of poor quality for mid- to low-resource languages, but the causes for this are not well-understood. We first demonstrate the existence of an implicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Niyati Bafna , Tianjian Li , Kenton Murray , David R. Mortensen , David Yarowsky , Hale Sirin , Daniel Khashabi

The rapid development and application of natural language generation (NLG) techniques has revolutionized the field of automatic text production. However, these techniques are still limited in their ability to produce human-like text that is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Jiangjie Chen , Yanghua Xiao

The necessity for interpretability in natural language processing (NLP) has risen alongside the growing prominence of large language models. Among the myriad tasks within NLP, text generation stands out as a primary objective of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Kenza Amara , Rita Sevastjanova , Mennatallah El-Assady

Attributing outputs from Large Language Models (LLMs) in adversarial settings-such as cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns-presents significant challenges that are likely to grow in importance. We approach this attribution problem from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Manuel Cebrian , Andres Abeliuk , Jan Arne Telle

The standard definition generation task requires to automatically produce mono-lingual definitions (e.g., English definitions for English words), but ignores that the generated definitions may also consist of unfamiliar words for language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Hengyuan Zhang , Dawei Li , Yanran Li , Chenming Shang , Chufan Shi , Yong Jiang