@inproceedings{schmidt-2019-generalization,
title = "Generalization in Generation: A closer look at Exposure Bias",
author = "Schmidt, Florian",
editor = "Birch, Alexandra and
Finch, Andrew and
Hayashi, Hiroaki and
Konstas, Ioannis and
Luong, Thang and
Neubig, Graham and
Oda, Yusuke and
Sudoh, Katsuhito",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation",
month = nov,
year = "2019",
address = "Hong Kong",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/D19-5616",
doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-5616",
pages = "157--167",
abstract = "Exposure bias refers to the train-test discrepancy that seemingly arises when an autoregressive generative model uses only ground-truth contexts at training time but generated ones at test time. We separate the contribution of the learning framework and the model to clarify the debate on consequences and review proposed counter-measures. In this light, we argue that generalization is the underlying property to address and propose unconditional generation as its fundamental benchmark. Finally, we combine latent variable modeling with a recent formulation of exploration in reinforcement learning to obtain a rigorous handling of true and generated contexts. Results on language modeling and variational sentence auto-encoding confirm the model{'}s generalization capability.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Generalization in Generation: A closer look at Exposure Bias
%A Schmidt, Florian
%Y Birch, Alexandra
%Y Finch, Andrew
%Y Hayashi, Hiroaki
%Y Konstas, Ioannis
%Y Luong, Thang
%Y Neubig, Graham
%Y Oda, Yusuke
%Y Sudoh, Katsuhito
%S Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation
%D 2019
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Hong Kong
%F schmidt-2019-generalization
%X Exposure bias refers to the train-test discrepancy that seemingly arises when an autoregressive generative model uses only ground-truth contexts at training time but generated ones at test time. We separate the contribution of the learning framework and the model to clarify the debate on consequences and review proposed counter-measures. In this light, we argue that generalization is the underlying property to address and propose unconditional generation as its fundamental benchmark. Finally, we combine latent variable modeling with a recent formulation of exploration in reinforcement learning to obtain a rigorous handling of true and generated contexts. Results on language modeling and variational sentence auto-encoding confirm the model’s generalization capability.
%R 10.18653/v1/D19-5616
%U https://aclanthology.org/D19-5616
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D19-5616
%P 157-167
Markdown (Informal)
[Generalization in Generation: A closer look at Exposure Bias](https://aclanthology.org/D19-5616) (Schmidt, NGT 2019)
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