Conference paper
Teaching Large Language Models Number-Focused Headline Generation With Key Element Rationales
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025 (Albuquerque, New Mexico, 29/04/2025–04/05/2025)
02/05/2025
Abstract
Number-focused headline generation is a summarization task requiring both high textual quality and precise numerical accuracy, which poses a unique challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing studies in the literature focus only on either textual quality or numerical reasoning and thus are inadequate to address this challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel chain-of-thought framework for using rationales comprising key elements of the Topic, Entities, and Numerical reasoning (TEN) in news articles to enhance the capability for LLMs to generate topic-aligned high-quality texts with precise numerical accuracy. Specifically, a teacher LLM is employed to generate TEN rationales as supervision data, which are then used to teach and fine-tune a student LLM. Our approach teaches the student LLM automatic generation of rationales with enhanced capability for numerical reasoning and topic-aligned numerical headline generation. Experiments show that our approach achieves superior performance in both textual quality and numerical accuracy.
Details
- Title
- Teaching Large Language Models Number-Focused Headline Generation With Key Element Rationales
- Authors/Creators
- Zhen Qian - RMIT UniversityXiuzhen Zhang - RMIT UniversityXiaofei Xu - Murdoch University, School of Information TechnologyFeng Xia - RMIT University
- Conference
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025 (Albuquerque, New Mexico, 29/04/2025–04/05/2025)
- Identifiers
- 991005796260007891
- Copyright
- © 2025 Qian et al.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
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