Reflective Decoding: Unsupervised Paraphrasing and Abductive Reasoning

by Peter West, Ximing Lu, Ari Holtzman, Chandra Bhagavatula, Jena Hwang, Yejin Choi

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Reflective Decoding uses generated contexts as an intermediate meaning representation, with multiple applications

We present a novel, unsupervised method to extend LM decoding to new domains. Given an input, Reflective Decoding samples contexts that capture its meaning, then uses reverse-direction LMs to reflect back from context into text! Reflective Decoding is simple and intuitive to apply, using only a forward and a backward language model -- no tuning required!

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