Summary of Kl-geodesics Flow Matching with a Novel Sampling Scheme, by Egor Sevriugov et al.
KL-geodesics flow matching with a novel sampling scheme
by Egor Sevriugov, Ivan Oseledets
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel approach to non-autoregressive language modeling, using a conditional flow matching technique to generate text. The authors represent tokens as one-hot vectors in a V-dimensional simplex and utilize geodesics under the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence to model complex dependencies in text data. They provide a theoretical justification for their approach and propose two inference methods: a basic method that maximizes the conditional likelihood, and a novel empirical sampling scheme that iteratively samples from the conditional distribution and introduces additional noise. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of their hybrid inference method on both conditional and unconditional text generation experiments. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about making computers better at understanding and generating human language. Right now, computers are pretty good at this when they’re given a little help from people who know what’s coming next in the sentence. But sometimes it would be helpful if computers could generate sentences all on their own, without needing someone to guide them along. The problem is that these computers have trouble figuring out how words relate to each other in sentences. This paper proposes a new way for computers to do this, by looking at how likely different words are to appear in a sentence based on what comes before it. The authors tested their method and found that it worked better than previous methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoregressive » Inference » Likelihood » One hot » Text generation
