Breaking Writer’s Block: Low-cost Fine-tuning of Natural Language Generation Models

Alexandre Duval, Thomas Lamson, Gaël de Léséleuc de Kérouara, Matthias Gallé


Abstract
It is standard procedure these days to solve Information Extraction task by fine-tuning large pre-trained language models. This is not the case for generation task, which relies on a variety of techniques for controlled language generation. In this paper, we describe a system that fine-tunes a natural language generation model for the problem of solving writer’s block. The fine-tuning changes the conditioning to also include the right context in addition to the left context, as well as an optional list of entities, the size, the genre and a summary of the paragraph that the human author wishes to generate. Our proposed fine-tuning obtains excellent results, even with a small number of epochs and a total cost of USD 150. The system can be accessed as a web-service and all the code is released. A video showcasing the interface and the model is also available.
Anthology ID:
2021.eacl-demos.33
Volume:
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
Month:
April
Year:
2021
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Online
Editors:
Dimitra Gkatzia, Djamé Seddah
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
278–287
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-demos.33
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-demos.33
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Alexandre Duval, Thomas Lamson, Gaël de Léséleuc de Kérouara, and Matthias Gallé. 2021. Breaking Writer’s Block: Low-cost Fine-tuning of Natural Language Generation Models. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 278–287, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Breaking Writer’s Block: Low-cost Fine-tuning of Natural Language Generation Models (Duval et al., EACL 2021)
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