# Help Improving Abstractive Summarization

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/help-improving-abstractive-summarization/6225>\
**Category:** 🤗Transformers\
**Created:** [May 18, 2021, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/help-improving-abstractive-summarization/6225 "2021-05-18T11:05:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/help-improving-abstractive-summarization/6225/2 "2021-05-18T13:02:19Z")

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hey @haithembrr, your approach sounds very sensible 🙂

have you tried playing around with the parameters of the model’s `generate` function, e.g. `max_len` and trying different strategies like beam search vs sampling (see [docs](https://huggingface.co/transformers/main_classes/model.html?highlight=generate#transformers.generation_utils.GenerationMixin.generate))?

alternatively, you could have a look at the discussion in this thread to see if someone has also run into the same problem: [Summarization on long documents](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/summarization-on-long-documents/920)

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