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20192023
most citedA Contrastive Framework for Neural Text Generation

83 citations · 148 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2023

Copy Is All You Need

Tian Lan, Deng Cai, Yan Wang +2

The dominant text generation models compose the output by sequentially selecting words from a fixed vocabulary. In this paper, we formulate text generation as progressively copying…

cs.CV2022★ 38 cited

Language Models Can See: Plugging Visual Controls in Text Generation

Yixuan Su, Tian Lan, Yahui Liu +5

Generative language models (LMs) such as GPT-2/3 can be prompted to generate text with remarkable quality. While they are designed for text-prompted generation, it remains an open…

cs.CL2022★ 83 cited

A Contrastive Framework for Neural Text Generation

Yixuan Su, Tian Lan, Yan Wang +3

Text generation is of great importance to many natural language processing applications. However, maximization-based decoding methods (e.g. beam search) of neural language models o…

cs.CL2021★ 4 cited

Exploring Dense Retrieval for Dialogue Response Selection

Tian Lan, Deng Cai, Yan Wang +3

Recent progress in deep learning has continuously improved the accuracy of dialogue response selection. In particular, sophisticated neural network architectures are leveraged to c…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

Self-attention Comparison Module for Boosting Performance on Retrieval-based Open-Domain Dialog Systems

Tian Lan, Xian-Ling Mao, Zhipeng Zhao +2

Since the pre-trained language models are widely used, retrieval-based open-domain dialog systems, have attracted considerable attention from researchers recently. Most of the prev…

cs.CL2020★ 6 cited

Ultra-Fast, Low-Storage, Highly Effective Coarse-grained Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbot by Using Deep Semantic Hashing

Tian Lan, Xian-Ling Mao, Xiaoyan Gao +2

We study the coarse-grained selection module in retrieval-based chatbot. Coarse-grained selection is a basic module in a retrieval-based chatbot, which constructs a rough candidate…

cs.CL2020★ 16 cited

PONE: A Novel Automatic Evaluation Metric for Open-Domain Generative Dialogue Systems

Tian Lan, Xian-Ling Mao, Wei Wei +2

Open-domain generative dialogue systems have attracted considerable attention over the past few years. Currently, how to automatically evaluate them, is still a big challenge probl…

cs.CL2019

Generative Dialog Policy for Task-oriented Dialog Systems

Tian Lan, Xianling Mao, Heyan Huang

There is an increasing demand for task-oriented dialogue systems which can assist users in various activities such as booking tickets and restaurant reservations. In order to compl…

cs.CL2019

Multi-task Learning for Low-resource Second Language Acquisition Modeling

Yong Hu, Heyan Huang, Tian Lan +5

Second language acquisition (SLA) modeling is to predict whether second language learners could correctly answer the questions according to what they have learned. It is a fundamen…