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The main goal of modeling human conversation is to create agents which can interact with people in both open-ended and goal-oriented scenarios. End-to-end trained neural dialog systems are an important line of research for such generalized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Chaitanya K. Joshi , Fei Mi , Boi Faltings

Automatic optimization of spoken dialog management policies that are robust to environmental noise has long been the goal for both academia and industry. Approaches based on reinforcement learning have been proved to be effective. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hang Ren , Weiqun Xu , Yonghong Yan

Personas are useful for dialogue response prediction. However, the personas used in current studies are pre-defined and hard to obtain before a conversation. To tackle this issue, we study a new task, named Speaker Persona Detection (SPD),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Jia-Chen Gu , Zhen-Hua Ling , Yu Wu , Quan Liu , Zhigang Chen , Xiaodan Zhu

The ability to infer persona from dialogue can have applications in areas ranging from computational narrative analysis to personalized dialogue generation. We introduce neural models to learn persona embeddings in a supervised character…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Eric Chu , Prashanth Vijayaraghavan , Deb Roy

Multi-session persona-based dialogue generation presents challenges in maintaining long-term consistency and generating diverse, personalized responses. While large language models (LLMs) excel in single-session dialogues, they struggle to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yi-Pei Chen , Noriki Nishida , Hideki Nakayama , Yuji Matsumoto

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

Recent advancements in Large Language Models empower them to follow freeform instructions, including imitating generic or specific demographic personas in conversations. We define generic personas to represent demographic groups, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Yixin Wan , Jieyu Zhao , Aman Chadha , Nanyun Peng , Kai-Wei Chang

Personalized dialogue systems explore the problem of generating responses that are consistent with the user's personality, which has raised much attention in recent years. Existing personalized dialogue systems have tried to extract user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hanxun Zhong , Zhicheng Dou , Yutao Zhu , Hongjin Qian , Ji-Rong Wen

Due to the lack of human resources for mental health support, there is an increasing demand for employing conversational agents for support. Recent work has demonstrated the effectiveness of dialogue models in providing emotional support.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jiale Cheng , Sahand Sabour , Hao Sun , Zhuang Chen , Minlie Huang

As language models achieve increasingly human-like capabilities in conversational text generation, a critical question emerges: to what extent can these systems simulate the characteristics of specific individuals? To evaluate this, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Quan Shi , Carlos E. Jimenez , Stephen Dong , Brian Seo , Caden Yao , Adam Kelch , Karthik Narasimhan

Providing dialogue agents with a profile representation can improve their consistency and coherence, leading to better conversations. However, current profile-based dialogue datasets for training such agents contain either explicit profile…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Daniela Occhipinti , Serra Sinem Tekiroglu , Marco Guerini

The increasing demand for personalized interactions with large language models (LLMs) calls for methodologies capable of accurately and efficiently identifying user opinions and preferences. Retrieval augmentation emerges as an effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Chenkai Sun , Ke Yang , Revanth Gangi Reddy , Yi R. Fung , Hou Pong Chan , Kevin Small , ChengXiang Zhai , Heng Ji

Conventional approaches to personalized dialogue generation typically require a large corpus, as well as predefined persona information. However, in a real-world setting, neither a large corpus of training data nor persona information are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Jing Yang Lee , Kong Aik Lee , Woon Seng Gan

Simulating human profiles by instilling personas into large language models (LLMs) is rapidly transforming research in agentic behavioral simulation, LLM personalization, and human-AI alignment. However, most existing synthetic personas…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhen Wang , Yufan Zhou , Zhongyan Luo , Lyumanshan Ye , Adam Wood , Man Yao , Saab Mansour , Luoshang Pan

Memorizing and utilizing speakers' personas is a common practice for response generation in long-term conversations. Yet, human-authored datasets often provide uninformative persona sentences that hinder response quality. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Hana Kim , Kai Tzu-iunn Ong , Seoyeon Kim , Dongha Lee , Jinyoung Yeo

The use of large language models (LLMs) to simulate human behavior has gained significant attention, particularly through personas that approximate individual characteristics. Persona-based simulations hold promise for transforming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Ang Li , Haozhe Chen , Hongseok Namkoong , Tianyi Peng

The recent success of large language models (LLMs) has attracted widespread interest to develop role-playing conversational agents personalized to the characteristics and styles of different speakers to enhance their abilities to perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yizhe Yang , Palakorn Achananuparp , Heyan Huang , Jing Jiang , Ee-Peng Lim

Language models trained on large-scale corpora can generate remarkably fluent results in open-domain dialogue. However, for the persona-based dialogue generation task, consistency and coherence are also key factors, which are great…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Junkai Zhou , Liang Pang , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Incorporating personas information allows diverse and engaging responses in dialogue response generation. Unfortunately, prior works have primarily focused on self personas and have overlooked the value of partner personas. Moreover, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Hongyuan Lu , Wai Lam , Hong Cheng , Helen M. Meng

In this paper, a novel Generation-Evaluation framework is developed for multi-turn conversations with the objective of letting both participants know more about each other. For the sake of rational knowledge utilization and coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Siqi Bao , Huang He , Fan Wang , Rongzhong Lian , Hua Wu