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Diffusion-LM Improves Controllable Text Generation

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arxiv 2205.14217 v1 pith:SNXKZSSI submitted 2022-05-27 cs.CL cs.AIcs.LG

classification cs.CLcs.AIcs.LG
keywords diffusion-lmcontinuousgenerationlanguagecomplexcontrolcontrollablecontrolling
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Controlling the behavior of language models (LMs) without re-training is a major open problem in natural language generation. While recent works have demonstrated successes on controlling simple sentence attributes (e.g., sentiment), there has been little progress on complex, fine-grained controls (e.g., syntactic structure). To address this challenge, we develop a new non-autoregressive language model based on continuous diffusions that we call Diffusion-LM. Building upon the recent successes of diffusion models in continuous domains, Diffusion-LM iteratively denoises a sequence of Gaussian vectors into word vectors, yielding a sequence of intermediate latent variables. The continuous, hierarchical nature of these intermediate variables enables a simple gradient-based algorithm to perform complex, controllable generation tasks. We demonstrate successful control of Diffusion-LM for six challenging fine-grained control tasks, significantly outperforming prior work.

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