Learning to Control Summaries with Score Ranking

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Auteurs principaux: Liu, Hongye, Ding, Liang, Henao, Ricardo
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author Liu, Hongye
Ding, Liang
Henao, Ricardo
author_facet Liu, Hongye
Ding, Liang
Henao, Ricardo
contents Recent advances in summarization research focus on improving summary quality across multiple criteria, such as completeness, conciseness, and faithfulness, by jointly optimizing these dimensions. However, these efforts largely overlook the challenge of controlling summary generation with respect to individual criteria, especially in the presence of their inherent trade-offs. For example, enhancing conciseness can compromise completeness, and vice versa. In this work, we address this gap by proposing a loss function that aligns model outputs with fine-grained, model-based evaluation scores (e.g., from FineSurE), enabling both improvement in summary quality and dimension-specific control. Our approach improves the overall quality of summaries while maintaining the ability to selectively prioritize one criterion over others. Experiments on three pretrained models (LLaMA, Qwen, and Mistral) demonstrate that our method achieves performance comparable to state-of-the-art summarizers, while uniquely offering strong controllability over individual quality dimensions.
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spellingShingle Learning to Control Summaries with Score Ranking
Liu, Hongye
Ding, Liang
Henao, Ricardo
Computation and Language
Recent advances in summarization research focus on improving summary quality across multiple criteria, such as completeness, conciseness, and faithfulness, by jointly optimizing these dimensions. However, these efforts largely overlook the challenge of controlling summary generation with respect to individual criteria, especially in the presence of their inherent trade-offs. For example, enhancing conciseness can compromise completeness, and vice versa. In this work, we address this gap by proposing a loss function that aligns model outputs with fine-grained, model-based evaluation scores (e.g., from FineSurE), enabling both improvement in summary quality and dimension-specific control. Our approach improves the overall quality of summaries while maintaining the ability to selectively prioritize one criterion over others. Experiments on three pretrained models (LLaMA, Qwen, and Mistral) demonstrate that our method achieves performance comparable to state-of-the-art summarizers, while uniquely offering strong controllability over individual quality dimensions.
title Learning to Control Summaries with Score Ranking
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17197