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| Approach: | They propose a framework to tackle a task called rigid formats controlled text generation . they propose rhyming schemes and a transformer-based auto-regressive language model to improve the modeling performance . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves the performance on format, rhyme, and sentence integrity. |
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