Pre-Trained Language Models for Text Generation: A Survey

Author:

Li Junyi1ORCID,Tang Tianyi2ORCID,Zhao Wayne Xin2ORCID,Nie Jian-Yun3ORCID,Wen Ji-Rong2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Renmin University of China, Beijing, China and Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

2. Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

3. Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Abstract

Text Generation aims to produce plausible and readable text in human language from input data. The resurgence of deep learning has greatly advanced this field, in particular, with the help of neural generation models based on pre-trained language models (PLMs). Text generation based on PLMs is viewed as a promising approach in both academia and industry. In this article, we provide a survey on the utilization of PLMs in text generation. We begin with introducing two key aspects of applying PLMs to text generation: (1) how to design an effective PLM to serve as the generation model; and (2) how to effectively optimize PLMs given the reference text and to ensure that the generated texts satisfy special text properties. Then, we show the major challenges that have arisen in these aspects, as well as possible solutions for them. We also include a summary of various useful resources and typical text generation applications based on PLMs. Finally, we highlight the future research directions which will further improve these PLMs for text generation. This comprehensive survey is intended to help researchers interested in text generation problems to learn the core concepts, the main techniques and the latest developments in this area based on PLMs.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Beijing Natural Science Foundation

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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