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Proactive Dialogue Model with Intent Prediction

Computation and Language 2026-05-01 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Dialogue models are inherently reactive, responding to the current user turn without anticipating upcoming intents, which leads to redundant interactions in multi-intent settings. We address this limitation by introducing a lightweight intent-transition prior derived from dialogue data and injected into the system prompt at inference time. We instantiate this prior using a Temporal Bayesian Network (T-BN) trained on per-turn intent annotations in MultiWOZ 2.2. The T-BN achieves Recall@5 = 0.787 and MRR = 0.576 on 1,071 held-out USER-turn pairs. In a ground-truth replay over 200 dialogues, BN-guided generation improves Coverage AUC from 0.742 to 0.856 and reduces the number of turns required to reach 75% intent coverage from 3.95 to 2.73. These results show that lightweight intent-transition guidance enables more proactive and efficient dialogue behavior without modifying the underlying language model.

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@article{arxiv.2604.27379,
  title  = {Proactive Dialogue Model with Intent Prediction},
  author = {Yang Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.27379},
  year   = {2026}
}

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9 pages, 1 figure

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