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                "text": "Neural controllable text generation is an important area gaining attention due to its plethora of applications. Although there is a large body of prior work in controllable text generation, there is no unifying theme. In this work, we provide a new schema of the pipeline of the generation process by classifying it into five modules. The control of attributes in the generation process requires modification of these modules. We present an overview of different techniques used to perform the modulation of these modules. We also provide an analysis on the advantages and disadvantages of these techniques. We further pave ways to develop new architectures based on the combination of the modules described in this paper.",
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                "text": "Controllable text generation is the task of generating natural sentences whose attributes can be controlled. The attributes to control can range from being stylistic such politeness, sentiment, formality, etc.; demographic attributes of the person writing the text such as gender, age, etc.; content such as information, keywords, entities, etc.; ordering of information, events, like plot summaries etc. Controlling various attributes of text generation has manifold applications. For instance in dialogue response generation task, work has been done in controlling persona (Zhang et al., 2018; Li et al., 2016b) , controlling various aspects of the response such as politeness (Niu and Bansal, 2018) , formality, authority etc, grounding the responses in external source of information (Zhou et al., 2018; , and controlling topic sequence (Tang et al., 2019; Prabhumoye et al., 2020) . Another application is story generation where you can control the ending , the persona (Chandu et al., 2019) , the plot (Yao et al., 2019) , and the topic sequence (Huang et al., 2019) . Controllable text generation is also used to modulate the formality and politeness of emails (Madaan et al., 2020) . Report generation can be controlled by pulling disparate source documents into a coherent unified whole, which can use a shared set of sources such as Wikipedia article generation .",
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                "text": "Although there is a large body of prior work in controllable text generation, there is no unifying theme. Each work addresses a specific task in a specific context. In this paper we outline a new schema which connects prior work and provides an insight into various aspects of controllable text generation. The schema contains five modules that cover the overall generation pipeline and provide an understanding of the effect of each component on the generation process. Prior work has focused on specific parts of the schema that we outline here and we provide insights into their similarities. We provide an overview of these modules and also present an exploration of the various techniques used to control and update each of these modules.",
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                "text": "Most of the controllable text generation tasks can be framed as conditional language generation tasks. They have an input or a source sequence U and an output or a target sequence Y to be generated. In this case, we model the probability of the target sequence conditioned on the source sequence given by P (Y|U) = T t=1 P (y t |U, y <t ). The generation of the target tokens of the sequence Y unfolds as a time series where each token y t is generated at a time step t. At a given time step t, a generative model takes in the previous hidden state h t\u22121 and the input x t at current time step. It performs a set of operations denoted by G to produce the output o t which is used to predict tokenx t . The ground truth token to be generated is denoted by y t . Figure 1 shows the schema proposed in this work consisting of five modules which can be used for controlling the generation process: (1) External Input module is responsible for the initialization h 0 , of the generation process. (2) Sequential Input module is the input x t at each time step of the generation.",
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                "text": "This schema provides an insight into the contributions of the various modules for controllable text generation. The main advantage of this schema is that it can be used with any algorithmic paradigm like sequence-to-sequence, adversarial methods, reinforcement learning, etc. The schema can also be used with non-autoregressive algorithms which may generate text using graphical structures like trees (Welleck et al., 2019; Guo et al., 2019) . In this paper, we focus on how this schema can be used to describe controllable text generation focusing particularly on the use of autoregressive models. This work paves way to designing new architectures based on our schema. This can be done by identifying promising techniques for each module and then combining them. Our schema can also be potentially used for applying these techniques on new tasks of similar nature. It also provides a standardized framework to position and compare new architectures with existing techniques.",
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                "text": "The prior work on unifying text generation models has mostly focused on building efficient tool-kits and modular views of generation. For instance, (Reiter and Dale, 2000) details seven sub-tasks which are conceptually distinct to describe the generation process. These sub-tasks can be modelled separately or in some cases they may interleave. In (Reiter and Dale, 2000) , these seven sub-tasks are primarily characterized as content or structure tasks. Note that Reiter and Dale (2000) is not specific to neural text generation. Our work focuses specifically on controlling attributes in neural text generation process. We don't divide the generation pipeline into several sub-tasks but we divide the neural text generation process into modules all of which are required for generation. In (Hu et al., 2019b) , the focus is on building a toolkit for various text generation tasks based on the three properties of versatility, modularity and extensibility. This work enlists few model architectures and learning paradigms for various text generation tasks. In our work, we focus only on the generation process of controllable text generation tasks. We specifically detail the inputs, outputs and operations of the generation process. We do not provide any specific examples of architectures but provide an overview of the basic underlying modules which can be used with any learning paradigm. Xie (2017) provides a practical guide to the neural generation process describing it in terms of initialization, optimization, regularization and decoding strategies. Our work on the other hand does not delve into the implementation details of the generation pipeline but provides an overall schema for understanding of the various components involved.",
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                "text": "In this section we discuss the different techniques which can be used to control the generation process by updating the initialization of the generator h 0 . In the standard generation process, h 0 is equal to h e . This is marked as module (1) in Figure 1 .",
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                "text": "One of the easiest ways to control the generation is to concatenate a control vector s to output of the encoder h e . The external input of the decoder h 0 will be [h e ; s], where [a; b] denotes concatenation. Here, the control vector s would provide the generator with a strong signal to guide the generation process. Fu et al. (2018) use this technique to control the style representation for their generator. The encoder builds representation that is devoid of the style and only retains content. The control vector for style is then concatenated to the encoder representation to initialize the decoder. This technique is commonly used in Zhou et al., 2018; to concatenate information from external sources to dialogue context to generate dialogue responses. Chandu et al. (2019) concatenate personality representation P derived from a separate corpus to generate visual stories. They also experiment with a simple arithmetic operation on h e given by h 0 = h e \u2212 S + P to get the initialization of the generator (here S denotes the average representation of the story). They observed that while concatenation technique is better at preserving the meaning of the generated story, the arithmetic operation provides a better signal of the personality for the generation process. Hoang et al. (2016) uses both the concatenation technique as well as performs a linear transform of s to obtain h 0 for language modelling task. The control vectors in this case represents meta data such as key-words, topics etc. In case of the linear transform h 0 = tanh(W 1 h e + W 2 s + b). The paper also explores adding the control vector to the encoder representation (h 0 = h e + s).",
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                "text": "In , Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) is used to guide the generation process with topics of a document. A gaussian mixture model is used to incorporate topics into latent variables. In , VAE is used to control for sentiment attribute in style transfer task by constraining the posterior mean to a learned probability simplex.",
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                "text": "The encoder representation h e can be decomposed into multiple subspaces, each of which signifies a different attribute to be controlled. Liu and Lapata (2018) split the encoder representation h e into two components, one which represents the structure in the document and the other represents the semantic information. This formulation was used by (Balachandran et al., 2020) for controlling structure in abstractive summarization. This work performs the split with respect to the dimensions of h e . The method forces the first n dimensions of h e to capture meaning and the latter to capture structure. Balachandran et al. (2020) also show quantitative and qualitative analysis on the types of structures of documents learnt by this technique. Romanov et al. (2019) decompose the encoder representation h e into a form vector f and a meaning vector m. During the training phase, a discriminator enforces m to not carry any information about the form using an adversarial loss and a motivator is used for a motivational loss that encourages f to carry the information about the form. The generation process can then be guided to adhere to the desired target form. As opposed to splitting h e with respect to dimensions, this work learns subspaces W m and W f given by m = tanh(W m h e + b m ) and f = tanh(W f h e + b f ) respectively. When h e is projected on W m , it yields the meaning vector m and similarly when it is projected on W f it yields the form vector f . This work shows qualitatively how m and f are learnt in the subspaces using t-SNE plots. It also shows quantitatively the use of m and f in downstream paraphrase detection tasks. This builds interpretable representations for control attributes. Although, the effectiveness of this technique is not yet proven in the style transfer task or the abstractive summarization task. In both the above mentioned works, the models learns interpretable representations of control attributes but were not able to beat state of the art methods in their respective tasks. It is also worth noting that learning good decomposed vectors is especially hard when no supervision is provided on what the decomposed components are supposed to learn.",
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