VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Erik Hillbom
dblp:382/3714
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Generative modeling · 67% Language models and text generation · 33% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling
generative adversarial network |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Branch-GAN: Improving Text Generation with (not so) Large Language Models · ICLR 2024 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › text generation
open-ended text generation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Branch-GAN: Improving Text Generation with (not so) Large Language Models · ICLR 2024 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › generative adversarial network
text GAN |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Branch-GAN: Improving Text Generation with (not so) Large Language Models · ICLR 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
next-token prediction · 0.8adversarial training · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Branch-GAN: Improving Text Generation with (not so) Large Language ModelsabstractThe current advancements in open domain text generation have been spearheaded by Transformer-based large language models. Leveraging efficient parallelization and vast training datasets, these models achieve unparalleled text generation capabilities. Even so, current models are known to suffer from deficiencies such as repetitive texts, looping issues, and lack of robustness. While adversarial training through generative adversarial networks (GAN) is a proposed solution, earlier research in this direction has predominantly focused on older architectures, or narrow tasks. As a result, this approach is not yet compatible with modern language models for open-ended text generation, leading to diminished interest within the broader research community. We propose a computationally efficient GAN approach for sequential data that utilizes the parallelization capabilities of Transformer models. Our method revolves around generating multiple branching sequences from each training sample, while also incorporating the typical next-step prediction loss on the original data. In this way, we achieve a dense reward and loss signal for both the generator and the discriminator, resulting in a stable training dynamic. We apply our training method to pre-trained language models, using data from their original training set but less than 0.01% of the available data. A comprehensive human evaluation shows that our method significantly improves the quality of texts generated by the model while avoiding the previously reported sparsity problems of GAN approaches. Even our smaller models outperform larger original baseline models with more than 16 times the number of parameters. Finally, we corroborate previous claims that perplexity on held-out data is not a sufficient metric for measuring the quality of generated texts. Fredrik Carlsson, Johan Broberg, Erik Hillbom, Magnus Sahlgren, Joakim Nivre |
ICLR | 3 |