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Endowing chatbots with a consistent persona is essential to an engaging conversation, yet it remains an unresolved challenge. In this work, we propose a new retrieval-enhanced approach for personalized response generation. Specifically, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Shuai Liu , Hyundong J. Cho , Marjorie Freedman , Xuezhe Ma , Jonathan May

In the retrieval-based multi-turn dialogue modeling, it remains a challenge to select the most appropriate response according to extracting salient features in context utterances. As a conversation goes on, topic shift at discourse-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Yi Xu , Hai Zhao , Zhuosheng Zhang

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have shown substantial benefits in applications such as question answering and multi-turn dialogue \citep{lewis2020retrieval}. However, traditional RAG methods, while leveraging static knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Feiyuan Zhang , Dezhi Zhu , James Ming , Yilun Jin , Di Chai , Liu Yang , Han Tian , Zhaoxin Fan , Kai Chen

In multi-turn dialogue generation, responses are not only related to the topic and background of the context but also related to words and phrases in the sentences of the context. However, currently widely used hierarchical dialog models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Danqin Wu

Generative models for dialog systems have gained much interest because of the recent success of RNN and Transformer based models in tasks like question answering and summarization. Although the task of dialog response generation is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Bishal Santra , Potnuru Anusha , Pawan Goyal

Neural conversational models learn to generate responses by taking into account the dialog history. These models are typically optimized over the query-response pairs with a maximum likelihood estimation objective. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Shaoxiong Feng , Hongshen Chen , Kan Li , Dawei Yin

While participants in a multi-party multi-turn conversation simultaneously engage in multiple conversation topics, existing response selection methods are developed mainly focusing on a two-party single-conversation scenario. Hence, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Weishi Wang , Shafiq Joty , Steven C. H. Hoi

We introduce the multiresolution recurrent neural network, which extends the sequence-to-sequence framework to model natural language generation as two parallel discrete stochastic processes: a sequence of high-level coarse tokens, and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Iulian Vlad Serban , Tim Klinger , Gerald Tesauro , Kartik Talamadupula , Bowen Zhou , Yoshua Bengio , Aaron Courville

Recently, research on open domain dialogue systems have attracted extensive interests of academic and industrial researchers. The goal of an open domain dialogue system is to imitate humans in conversations. Previous works on single turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Wei-Nan Zhang , Yiming Cui , Kaiyan Zhang , Yifa Wang , Qingfu Zhu , Lingzhi Li , Ting Liu

Talking Head Generation (THG) has emerged as a transformative technology in computer vision, enabling the synthesis of realistic human faces synchronized with image, audio, text, or video inputs. This paper provides a comprehensive review…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Vineet Kumar Rakesh , Soumya Mazumdar , Research Pratim Maity , Sarbajit Pal , Amitabha Das , Tapas Samanta

Sequence-to-sequence models have been applied to the conversation response generation problem where the source sequence is the conversation history and the target sequence is the response. Unlike translation, conversation responding is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Louis Shao , Stephan Gouws , Denny Britz , Anna Goldie , Brian Strope , Ray Kurzweil

Dialogue related Machine Reading Comprehension requires language models to effectively decouple and model multi-turn dialogue passages. As a dialogue development goes after the intentions of participants, its topic may not keep constant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xinbei Ma , Yi Xu , Hai Zhao , Zhuosheng Zhang

Audio-driven talking video generation has advanced significantly, but existing methods often depend on video-to-video translation techniques and traditional generative networks like GANs and they typically generate taking heads and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Steven Hogue , Chenxu Zhang , Hamza Daruger , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo

Topic drift is a common phenomenon in multi-turn dialogue. Therefore, an ideal dialogue generation models should be able to capture the topic information of each context, detect the relevant context, and produce appropriate responses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Hainan Zhang , Yanyan Lan , Liang Pang , Hongshen Chen , Zhuoye Ding , Dawei Yin

We investigate response generation for multi-turn dialogue in generative-based chatbots. Existing generative models based on RNNs (Recurrent Neural Networks) usually employ the last hidden state to summarize the sequences, which makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yongkang Liu , Shi Feng , Daling Wang , Yifei Zhang , Hinrich Schütze

We present three enhancements to existing encoder-decoder models for open-domain conversational agents, aimed at effectively modeling coherence and promoting output diversity: (1) We introduce a measure of coherence as the GloVe embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Xinnuo Xu , Ondřej Dušek , Ioannis Konstas , Verena Rieser

Recent advances in pre-trained language models have significantly improved neural response generation. However, existing methods usually view the dialogue context as a linear sequence of tokens and learn to generate the next word through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Xiaodong Gu , Kang Min Yoo , Jung-Woo Ha

While recent neural encoder-decoder models have shown great promise in modeling open-domain conversations, they often generate dull and generic responses. Unlike past work that has focused on diversifying the output of the decoder at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Tiancheng Zhao , Ran Zhao , Maxine Eskenazi

The successful emotional conversation system depends on sufficient perception and appropriate expression of emotions. In a real-life conversation, humans firstly instinctively perceive emotions from multi-source information, including the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Ying Zhang , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen , Jie Zhou

Recent advances in neural sequence-to-sequence models have led to promising results for several language generation-based tasks, including dialogue response generation, summarization, and machine translation. However, these models are known…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Semih Yavuz , Abhinav Rastogi , Guan-Lin Chao , Dilek Hakkani-Tur