PLATO: Pre-trained dialogue generation model with discrete latent variable

S Bao, H He, F Wang, H Wu, H Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.07931, 2019 - arxiv.org
Pre-training models have been proved effective for a wide range of natural language
processing tasks. Inspired by this, we propose a novel dialogue generation pre-training …

Plato-2: Towards building an open-domain chatbot via curriculum learning

S Bao, H He, F Wang, H Wu, H Wang, W Wu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
To build a high-quality open-domain chatbot, we introduce the effective training process of
PLATO-2 via curriculum learning. There are two stages involved in the learning process. In …

Knowledge graph grounded goal planning for open-domain conversation generation

J Xu, H Wang, Z Niu, H Wu, W Che - … of the AAAI conference on artificial …, 2020 - ojs.aaai.org
Previous neural models on open-domain conversation generation have no effective
mechanisms to manage chatting topics, and tend to produce less coherent dialogs. Inspired …

Conversational graph grounded policy learning for open-domain conversation generation

J Xu, H Wang, ZY Niu, H Wu, W Che… - Proceedings of the 58th …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
To address the challenge of policy learning in open-domain multi-turn conversation, we
propose to represent prior information about dialog transitions as a graph and learn a graph …

Discovering dialog structure graph for coherent dialog generation

J Xu, Z Lei, H Wang, ZY Niu, H Wu… - Proceedings of the 59th …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Learning discrete dialog structure graph from human-human dialogs yields basic insights
into the structure of conversation, and also provides background knowledge to facilitate …

Thinking clearly, talking fast: Concept-guided non-autoregressive generation for open-domain dialogue systems

Y Zou, Z Liu, X Hu, Q Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.04084, 2021 - arxiv.org
Human dialogue contains evolving concepts, and speakers naturally associate multiple
concepts to compose a response. However, current dialogue models with the seq2seq …

A variational selection mechanism for article comment generation

J Liu, P Cheng, J Dai, J Liu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Article comment generation is a new and challenging task in natural language processing,
which has recently received much attention from researchers. In the article comment …

Incorporating causal analysis into diversified and logical response generation

J Liu, W Wei, Z Chu, X Gao, J Zhang, T Yan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Although the Conditional Variational AutoEncoder (CVAE) model can generate more
diversified responses than the traditional Seq2Seq model, the responses often have low …

Measuring and improving semantic diversity of dialogue generation

S Han, B Kim, B Chang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.05725, 2022 - arxiv.org
Response diversity has become an important criterion for evaluating the quality of open-
domain dialogue generation models. However, current evaluation metrics for response …

Think twice: A human-like two-stage conversational agent for emotional response generation

Y Qian, B Wang, S Ma, W Bin, S Zhang, D Zhao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Towards human-like dialogue systems, current emotional dialogue approaches jointly
model emotion and semantics with a unified neural network. This strategy tends to generate …