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Can pre-trained language models generate titles for research papers?

2024/09/22 by Tohida Rehman, Rehman, Tohida, Debarshi Kumar Sanyal +3
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Topic Modeling

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2409.14602

openalex publication_date 2024/09/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The title of a research paper communicates in a succinct style the main theme and, sometimes, the findings of the paper. Coming up with the right title is often an arduous task, and therefore, it would be beneficial to authors if title generation can be automated. In this paper, we fine-tune pre-trained language models to generate titles of papers from their abstracts. Additionally, we use GPT-3.5-turbo in a zero-shot setting to generate paper titles. The performance of the models is measured with ROUGE, METEOR, MoverScore, BERTScore and SciBERTScore metrics. We find that fine-tuned PEGASUS-large outperforms the other models, including fine-tuned LLaMA-3-8B and GPT-3.5-turbo, across most metrics. We also demonstrate that ChatGPT can generate creative titles for papers. Our observations suggest that AI-generated paper titles are generally accurate and appropriate.

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