LatticeBridge: New Method for Generating Structured Text While Satisfying Multiple Constraints
Researchers introduced LatticeBridge, a new decoding method that uses sequential Monte Carlo sampling to generate structured text sequences while reliably satisfying multiple input-derived constraints. The method combines language models with automata and advanced sampling techniques to handle cases where standard decoding fails to produce outputs meeting all required conditions simultaneously. This addresses a fundamental challenge in natural language generation tasks like data-to-text and constrained synthesis.
LatticeBridge tackles the problem of structured sequence generation, where language models must produce outputs satisfying multiple constraints derived from input data. Standard decoding methods like greedy or beam search often assign high probability to fluent text that fails to realize all required constraints together—a rare-event problem in probability space. The approach combines three components: a compact prefix language model, instance-compiled surface automata that encode constraints, and a twisted sequential Monte Carlo decoder with resampling and multilevel splitting. Evaluated on 2,610 validation tasks across CommonGen, E2E NLG, and WikiBio benchmarks, LatticeBridge improves exact anchor satisfaction and mean anchor coverage compared to greedy, beam-filtered, and best-of-k baselines. The evaluation framework comprehensively measures faithfulness, source coverage, and latency trade-offs, moving beyond simple metrics to assess whether generated text actually uses supported information.
What's missing
The paper does not discuss computational requirements or memory overhead compared to baseline methods, nor does it provide analysis of failure modes or types of constraints where the method struggles. The study is limited to English-language tasks and does not address multilingual or cross-lingual constraint satisfaction.
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- arXiv cs.LGCenter
LatticeBridge: Rare-Event Sequential Inference for Faithful Structured Sequence Synthesis
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