Tracformer提升条件生成鲁棒性,解决非自回归模型泛化差问题。
Tractable Transformers for Flexible Conditional Generation
- 引入稀疏Transformer编码器,融合局部与全局上下文信息
- 在文本建模任务上超越扩散模型和自回归基线,实现顶尖条件生成性能
- 适合需要灵活处理多种条件生成任务的研究者
非自回归(NAR)生成模型因其能更合理地处理多样化的条件生成任务而具有价值,这优于受序列依赖限制的自回归(AR)模型。尽管最近的NAR模型(如扩散语言模型)在无条件生成上表现优于同规模的AR模型(如GPT),但这种优势并未转化为条件生成性能的提升。本文指出,关键原因是模型难以泛化到训练中未见的条件概率查询(即未知变量集合)。因此,强大的无条件生成能力并不能保证高质量的条件生成。为此,本文提出可解析的Transformer(Tracformer),一种基于Transformer的生成模型,对不同条件生成任务更具鲁棒性。不同于仅依赖完整输入全局上下文特征的现有模型,Tracformers通过稀疏Transformer编码器捕捉局部与全局上下文信息,并将这些信息路由至解码器进行条件生成。实验证明,Tracformers在文本建模任务上的条件生成性能显著优于近期扩散模型和AR模型基线。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Non-autoregressive (NAR) generative models are valuable because they can handle diverse conditional generation tasks in a more principled way than their autoregressive (AR) counterparts, which are constrained by sequential dependency requirements. Recent advancements in NAR models, such as diffusion language models, have demonstrated superior performance in unconditional generation compared to AR models (e.g., GPTs) of similar sizes. However, such improvements do not always lead to improved conditional generation performance. We show that a key reason for this gap is the difficulty in generalizing to conditional probability queries (i.e., the set of unknown variables) unseen during training. As a result, strong unconditional generation performance does not guarantee high-quality conditional generation. This paper proposes Tractable Transformers (Tracformer), a Transformer-based generative model that is more robust to different conditional generation tasks. Unlike existing models that rely solely on global contextual features derived from full inputs, Tracformers incorporate a sparse Transformer encoder to capture both local and global contextual information. This information is routed through a decoder for conditional generation. Empirical results demonstrate that Tracformers achieve state-of-the-art conditional generation performance on text modeling compared to recent diffusion and AR model baselines.
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