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title = "Generation with Dynamic Vocabulary",
author = "Liu, Yanting and
Ji, Tao and
Sun, Changzhi and
Wu, Yuanbin and
Wang, Xiaoling",
editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser and
Bansal, Mohit and
Chen, Yun-Nung",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = nov,
year = "2024",
address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.1053",
pages = "18931--18948",
abstract = "We introduce a new dynamic vocabulary for language models. It can involve arbitrary text spans during generation. These text spans act as basic generation bricks, akin to tokens in the traditional static vocabularies. We show that, the ability to generate multi-tokens atomically improve both generation quality and efficiency (compared to the standard language model, the MAUVE metric is increased by 25{\%}, the latency is decreased by 20 {\%}). The dynamic vocabulary can be deployed in a plug-and-play way, thus is attractive for various downstream applications. For example, we demonstrate that dynamic vocabulary can be applied to different domains in a training-free manner. It also helps to generate reliable citations in question answering tasks (substantially enhancing citation results without compromising answer accuracy).",
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%A Liu, Yanting
%A Ji, Tao
%A Sun, Changzhi
%A Wu, Yuanbin
%A Wang, Xiaoling
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%Y Bansal, Mohit
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
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%D 2024
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%X We introduce a new dynamic vocabulary for language models. It can involve arbitrary text spans during generation. These text spans act as basic generation bricks, akin to tokens in the traditional static vocabularies. We show that, the ability to generate multi-tokens atomically improve both generation quality and efficiency (compared to the standard language model, the MAUVE metric is increased by 25%, the latency is decreased by 20 %). The dynamic vocabulary can be deployed in a plug-and-play way, thus is attractive for various downstream applications. For example, we demonstrate that dynamic vocabulary can be applied to different domains in a training-free manner. It also helps to generate reliable citations in question answering tasks (substantially enhancing citation results without compromising answer accuracy).
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Markdown (Informal)
[Generation with Dynamic Vocabulary](https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.1053) (Liu et al., EMNLP 2024)
ACL
- Yanting Liu, Tao Ji, Changzhi Sun, Yuanbin Wu, and Xiaoling Wang. 2024. Generation with Dynamic Vocabulary. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 18931–18948, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.