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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

Intelligent personal assistant systems that are able to have multi-turn conversations with human users are becoming increasingly popular. Most previous research has been focused on using either retrieval-based or generation-based methods to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Liu Yang , Junjie Hu , Minghui Qiu , Chen Qu , Jianfeng Gao , W. Bruce Croft , Xiaodong Liu , Yelong Shen , Jingjing Liu

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

Memory is fundamental to social interaction, enabling humans to recall meaningful past experiences and adapt their behavior accordingly based on the context. However, most current social robots and embodied agents rely on non-selective,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hangyeol Kang , Slava Voloshynovskiy , Nadia Magnenat Thalmann

Response ranking in dialogues plays a crucial role in retrieval-based conversational systems. In a multi-turn dialogue, to capture the gist of a conversation, contextual information serves as essential knowledge to achieve this goal. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Zihao Wang , Eugene Agichtein , Jinho Choi

This work aims to build a dialogue agent that can weave new factual content into conversations as naturally as humans. We draw insights from linguistic principles of conversational analysis and annotate human-human conversations from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Ashwin Paranjape , Christopher D. Manning

This paper addresses user-specific dialogs. In contrast to previous research on personalized dialogue focused on achieving virtual user dialogue as defined by persona descriptions, user-specific dialogue aims to reproduce real-user dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Atsushi Otsuka , Kazuya Matsuo , Ryo Ishii , Narichika Nomoto , Hiroaki Sugiyama

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in handling general knowledge tasks, yet they struggle with user-specific personalization, such as understanding individual emotions, writing styles, and preferences. Personalized Large Language Models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiahong Liu , Zexuan Qiu , Zhongyang Li , Quanyu Dai , Wenhao Yu , Jieming Zhu , Minda Hu , Menglin Yang , Tat-Seng Chua , Irwin King

In this paper, we study the task of selecting the optimal response given a user and system utterance history in retrieval-based multi-turn dialog systems. Recently, pre-trained language models (e.g., BERT, RoBERTa, and ELECTRA) showed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Taesun Whang , Dongyub Lee , Dongsuk Oh , Chanhee Lee , Kijong Han , Dong-hun Lee , Saebyeok Lee

Multi-turn interaction in the dialogue system research refers to a system's ability to maintain context across multiple dialogue turns, enabling it to generate coherent and contextually relevant responses. Recent advancements in large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Chen Zhang , Xinyi Dai , Yaxiong Wu , Qu Yang , Yasheng Wang , Ruiming Tang , Yong Liu

Personalized conversation models (PCMs) generate responses according to speaker preferences. Existing personalized conversation tasks typically require models to extract speaker preferences from user descriptions or their conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Zhiliang Tian , Wei Bi , Zihan Zhang , Dongkyu Lee , Yiping Song , Nevin L. Zhang

Natural language dialogue systems raise great attention recently. As many dialogue models are data-driven, high-quality datasets are essential to these systems. In this paper, we introduce Pchatbot, a large-scale dialogue dataset that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Hongjin Qian , Xiaohe Li , Hanxun Zhong , Yu Guo , Yueyuan Ma , Yutao Zhu , Zhanliang Liu , Zhicheng Dou , Ji-Rong Wen

Personalized chatbots focus on endowing the chatbots with a consistent personality to behave like real users and further act as personal assistants. Previous studies have explored generating implicit user profiles from the user's dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Zhaoheng Huang , Zhicheng Dou , Yutao Zhu , Zhengyi Ma

With the improvements in speech recognition and voice generation technologies over the last years, a lot of companies have sought to develop conversation understanding systems that run on mobile phones or smart home devices through natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Manajit Chakraborty , Esteban Andrés Ríssola , Fabio Crestani

Most existing works on dialog systems only consider conversation content while neglecting the personality of the user the bot is interacting with, which begets several unsolved issues. In this paper, we present a personalized end-to-end…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Liangchen Luo , Wenhao Huang , Qi Zeng , Zaiqing Nie , Xu Sun

Although pre-trained sequence-to-sequence models have achieved great success in dialogue response generation, chatbots still suffer from generating inconsistent responses in real-world practice, especially in multi-turn settings. We argue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Leyang Cui , Fandong Meng , Yijin Liu , Jie Zhou , Yue Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as personalized assistants for users across a wide range of tasks -- from offering writing support to delivering tailored recommendations or consultations. Over time, the interaction history between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Bowen Jiang , Zhuoqun Hao , Young-Min Cho , Bryan Li , Yuan Yuan , Sihao Chen , Lyle Ungar , Camillo J. Taylor , Dan Roth

Large Language Models (LLMs), which simulate human users, are frequently employed to evaluate chatbots in applications such as tutoring and customer service. Effective evaluation necessitates a high degree of human-like diversity within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xiaoyu Lin , Xinkai Yu , Ankit Aich , Salvatore Giorgi , Lyle Ungar

Despite the success of neural dialogue systems in achieving high performance on the leader-board, they cannot meet users' requirements in practice, due to their poor reasoning skills. The underlying reason is that most neural dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Xu Wang , Hainan Zhang , Shuai Zhao , Yanyan Zou , Hongshen Chen , Zhuoye Ding , Bo Cheng , Yanyan Lan

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) have achieved remarkable progress yet remain constrained by a single-turn interaction paradigm, effectively functioning as solvers for independent requests rather than assistants in continuous dialogue. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Wenxun Dai , Zhiyuan Zhao , Yule Zhong , Yiji Cheng , Jianwei Zhang , Linqing Wang , Shiyi Zhang , Yunlong Lin , Runze He , Fellix Song , Wayne Zhuang , Yong Liu , Haoji Zhang , Yansong Tang , Qinglin Lu , Chunyu Wang