Challenge: Existing prompt tuning approaches for attribute-controllable text generation are difficult to implement due to the lack of interpretability of deep neural networks.
Approach: They propose a new approach that incorporates attribute knowledge of discriminator to optimize prompt tuning by steering a frozen CLM to produce attribute-specific texts.
Outcome: The proposed approach can achieve state-of-the-art control performance while maintaining high-quality text generation.

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