Publications by authors named "Faisal Ladhak"

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  • Creating a summary that balances detail and clarity is challenging, and a new method called "Chain of Density" (CoD) helps achieve this by generating increasingly dense summaries while maintaining length.
  • CoD-produced summaries are more abstract, integrate information better, and are preferred by humans over traditional summary methods, showing a closer density to human-written summaries.
  • A study with 100 CNN DailyMail articles indicates that people favor more informative summaries that may sacrifice some readability, with 500 annotated CoD summaries and 5,000 unannotated ones available online.
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Two-step approaches, in which summary candidates are generated-then-reranked to return a single summary, can improve ROUGE scores over the standard single-step approach. Yet, standard decoding methods (i.e.

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