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20192023
most citedPEGASUS: Pre-training with Extracted Gap-sentences for Abstractive Summarization

982 citations · 1.2k across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CL2023★ 7 cited

Statistical Rejection Sampling Improves Preference Optimization

Tianqi Liu, Yao Zhao, Rishabh Joshi +4

Improving the alignment of language models with human preferences remains an active research challenge. Previous approaches have primarily utilized Reinforcement Learning from Huma…

cs.CV2023★ 74 cited

CLE Diffusion: Controllable Light Enhancement Diffusion Model

Yuyang Yin, Dejia Xu, Chuangchuang Tan +3

Low light enhancement has gained increasing importance with the rapid development of visual creation and editing. However, most existing enhancement algorithms are designed to homo…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

CTP: Towards Vision-Language Continual Pretraining via Compatible Momentum Contrast and Topology Preservation

Hongguang Zhu, Yunchao Wei, Xiaodan Liang +2

Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) has shown impressive results on diverse downstream tasks by offline training on large-scale datasets. Regarding the growing nature of real-world d…

cs.CL2023★ 11 cited

SLiC-HF: Sequence Likelihood Calibration with Human Feedback

Yao Zhao, Rishabh Joshi, Tianqi Liu +3

Learning from human feedback has been shown to be effective at aligning language models with human preferences. Past work has often relied on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feed…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Global Knowledge Calibration for Fast Open-Vocabulary Segmentation

Kunyang Han, Yong Liu, Jun Hao Liew +8

Recent advancements in pre-trained vision-language models, such as CLIP, have enabled the segmentation of arbitrary concepts solely from textual inputs, a process commonly referred…

cs.CL2022

Improving the Robustness of Summarization Models by Detecting and Removing Input Noise

Kundan Krishna, Yao Zhao, Jie Ren +4

The evaluation of abstractive summarization models typically uses test data that is identically distributed as training data. In real-world practice, documents to be summarized may…

cs.CL2022★ 38 cited

Calibrating Sequence likelihood Improves Conditional Language Generation

Yao Zhao, Misha Khalman, Rishabh Joshi +3

Conditional language models are predominantly trained with maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), giving probability mass to sparsely observed target sequences. While MLE trained mod…

cs.CL2022★ 12 cited

Out-of-Distribution Detection and Selective Generation for Conditional Language Models

Jie Ren, Jiaming Luo, Yao Zhao +4

Machine learning algorithms typically assume independent and identically distributed samples in training and at test time. Much work has shown that high-performing ML classifiers c…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Investigating Efficiently Extending Transformers for Long Input Summarization

Jason Phang, Yao Zhao, Peter J. Liu

While large pretrained Transformer models have proven highly capable at tackling natural language tasks, handling long sequence inputs continues to be a significant challenge. One…

cs.CL2022★ 33 cited

TALM: Tool Augmented Language Models

Aaron Parisi, Yao Zhao, Noah Fiedel

Transformer based language models (LMs) demonstrate increasing performance with scale across a wide variety of tasks. Scale alone however cannot enable models to solve tasks that r…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

A Well-Composed Text is Half Done! Composition Sampling for Diverse Conditional Generation

Shashi Narayan, Gonçalo Simões, Yao Zhao +4

We propose Composition Sampling, a simple but effective method to generate diverse outputs for conditional generation of higher quality compared to previous stochastic decoding str…

cs.CL2021★ 5 cited

Planning with Learned Entity Prompts for Abstractive Summarization

Shashi Narayan, Yao Zhao, Joshua Maynez +3

We introduce a simple but flexible mechanism to learn an intermediate plan to ground the generation of abstractive summaries. Specifically, we prepend (or prompt) target summaries…

cs.CL2020★ 13 cited

SEAL: Segment-wise Extractive-Abstractive Long-form Text Summarization

Yao Zhao, Mohammad Saleh, Peter J. Liu

Most prior work in the sequence-to-sequence paradigm focused on datasets with input sequence lengths in the hundreds of tokens due to the computational constraints of common RNN an…

cs.CL2019★ 982 cited

PEGASUS: Pre-training with Extracted Gap-sentences for Abstractive Summarization

Jingqing Zhang, Yao Zhao, Mohammad Saleh +1

Recent work pre-training Transformers with self-supervised objectives on large text corpora has shown great success when fine-tuned on downstream NLP tasks including text summariza…