Challenge: Existing methods for multi-aspect control suffer from attribute degeneration due to mutual interference of these controllers.
Approach: They propose to use attribute fusion to find the intersections of multiple attributes as their combination for generation.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms baselines on attribute relevance and text quality and achieves the SOTA.

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