Pre-train and Plug-in: Flexible Conditional Text Generation with Variational Auto-Encoders (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing conditional generation models cannot handle emerging conditions due to their joint end-to-end learning fashion. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for conditional text generation that decouples the text generation module from the condition representation module to allow "one-to-many" conditional generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework decouples the text generation module from the condition representation module to allow “one-to-many” conditional generation. |
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