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Classifiers are Better Experts for Controllable Text Generation

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arxiv 2205.07276 v3 pith:MIBGK5Q3 submitted 2022-05-15 cs.CL cs.LG

classification cs.CLcs.LG
keywords classifiertextgenerationcontrollablelogitsmethodsignificantlyaccuracy
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This paper proposes a simple method for controllable text generation based on weighting logits with a free-form classifier, namely CAIF sampling. Using an arbitrary text classifier, we adjust a small part of a language model's logits and guide text generation towards or away from classifier prediction. We experimented with toxicity avoidance and sentiment control tasks and showed that the proposed method significantly outperforms recent PPLM, GeDi, and DExperts on PPL and task accuracy metrics based on the external classifier of generated texts. In addition, compared to other approaches, it is easier to implement and tune and has significantly fewer restrictions and requirements.

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