BIPro: Zero-shot Chinese Poem Generation via Block Inverse Prompting Constrained Generation Framework

Recently, generative pre-trained models have made significant strides, particularly highlighted by the release of ChatGPT and GPT-4, which exhibit superior cross-domain capabilities.However, these models still face challenges on constrained writing tasks like poem generation under open-domain titles via direct generation.In response to this challenge, we introduce Block Inverse Prompting (BIPro) constrained generation framework.BIPro leverages two block inverse prompting methods, revise and rewrite.This inference scaling approach mimics the process of human text writing using block generative models.It significantly improves the zero-shot generation quality on the constrained generation task of open-domain traditional-form Chinese poem generation.Based on a less powerful block generative model GLM-10B-Chinese, poems composed via BIPro without priming or additional training outperform both much larger direct generative systems like GPT-4 or GLM-4 and domain-specific systems such as Yusheng, Shisanbai, or Baidu Poetry Helper in human evaluation by proficient poets.BIPro considerably narrows the gap between AI-generated works and short-listed human literary arts in another human evaluation, unveiling the promising potential of inference scaling in improving the quality of constrained generation.It is open-sourced 1 and available as an agent in chatglm app.