Title
TextKD-GAN - Text Generation Using Knowledge Distillation and Generative Adversarial Networks.
Abstract
Text generation is of particular interest in many NLP applications such as machine translation, language modeling, and text summarization. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) achieved a remarkable success in high quality image generation in computer vision, and recently, GANs have gained lots of interest from the NLP community as well. However, achieving similar success in NLP would be more challenging due to the discrete nature of text. In this work, we introduce a method using knowledge distillation to effectively exploit GAN setup for text generation. We demonstrate how autoencoders (AEs) can be used for providing a continuous representation of sentences, which is a smooth representation that assign non-zero probabilities to more than one word. We distill this representation to train the generator to synthesize similar smooth representations. We perform a number of experiments to validate our idea using different datasets and show that our proposed approach yields better performance in terms of the BLEU score and Jensen-Shannon distance (JSD) measure compared to traditional GAN-based text generation approaches without pre-training.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-18305-9_9
ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Text generation,Generative adversarial networks,Knowledge distillation
Conference
11489.0
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
2
0.35
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Md. Akmal Haidar1286.32
Mehdi Rezagholizadeh238.82