DISCO : efficient unsupervised decoding for discrete natural language problems via convex relaxation
In this paper we study test time decoding; an ubiquitous step in almost all sequential text generation task spanning across a wide array of natural language processing (NLP) problems. Our main contribution is to develop a continuous relaxation framework for the combinatorial NP-hard decoding problem and propose Disco - an efficient algorithm based on standard first order gradient based. We provide tight analysis and show that our proposed algorithm linearly converges to within $\epsilon$ neighborhood of the optima. Finally, we perform preliminary experiments on the task of adversarial text generation and show superior performance of Disco over several popular decoding approaches.
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