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SEAD: Self-Evolving Agent for Multi-Turn Service Dialogue

Computation and Language 2026-05-06 v3

Abstract

Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in open-domain dialogues. However, current methods exhibit suboptimal performance in service dialogues, as they rely on noisy, low-quality human conversation data. This limitation arises from data scarcity and the difficulty of simulating authentic, goal-oriented user behaviors. To address these issues, we propose SEAD (Self-Evolving Agent for Service Dialogue), a framework that enables agents to learn effective strategies without large-scale human annotations. SEAD decouples user modeling into two components: a Profile Controller that generates diverse user states to manage training curriculum, and a User Role-play Model that focuses on realistic role-playing. This design ensures the environment provides adaptive training scenarios rather than acting as an unfair adversary. Experiments demonstrate that SEAD significantly outperforms Open-source Foundation Models and Closed-source Commercial Models, improving task completion rate by 17.6% and dialogue efficiency by 11.1%. Code is available at: https://github.com/Da1yuqin/SEAD.

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@article{arxiv.2602.03548,
  title  = {SEAD: Self-Evolving Agent for Multi-Turn Service Dialogue},
  author = {Yuqin Dai and Ning Gao and Wei Zhang and Jie Wang and Zichen Luo and Jinpeng Wang and Yujie Wang and Ruiyuan Wu and Chaozheng Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.03548},
  year   = {2026}
}
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