Challenge: Pre-trained language models have been used for abstractive single-document summarization (SDS) but they may not be suitable for multi-document summary (MDS)
Approach: They propose to enforce hierarchy on both encoder and decoder to facilitate multi-document interactions for MDS.
Outcome: Xiao et al. (2019) outperforms or is competitive with the previous best models.

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