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Language models pre-trained on general text have achieved impressive results in diverse fields. Yet, the distinct linguistic characteristics of task-oriented dialogues (TOD) compared to general text limit the practical utility of existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Weihao Zeng , Dayuan Fu , Keqing He , Yejie Wang , Yukai Xu , Weiran Xu

Building robust and general dialogue models for spoken conversations is challenging due to the gap in distributions of spoken and written data. This paper presents our approach to build generalized models for the Knowledge-grounded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Ruijie Yan , Shuang Peng , Haitao Mi , Liang Jiang , Shihui Yang , Yuchi Zhang , Jiajun Li , Liangrui Peng , Yongliang Wang , Zujie Wen

One of the difficulties in training dialogue systems is the lack of training data. We explore the possibility of creating dialogue data through the interaction between a dialogue system and a user simulator. Our goal is to develop a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Yinpei Dai , Florian Kreyssig , Bill Byrne

Recent studies have shown remarkable success in end-to-end task-oriented dialog system. However, most neural models rely on large training data, which are only available for a certain number of task domains, such as navigation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Libo Qin , Xiao Xu , Wanxiang Che , Yue Zhang , Ting Liu

With the advances in deep learning, tremendous progress has been made with chit-chat dialogue systems and task-oriented dialogue systems. However, these two systems are often tackled separately in current methods. To achieve more natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Xinyan Zhao , Bin He , Yasheng Wang , Yitong Li , Fei Mi , Yajiao Liu , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Huanhuan Chen

Data scarcity is a long-standing and crucial challenge that hinders quick development of task-oriented dialogue systems across multiple domains: task-oriented dialogue models are expected to learn grammar, syntax, dialogue reasoning,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Paweł Budzianowski , Ivan Vulić

Single-agent large language model (LLM) systems struggle to simultaneously support diverse conversational functions and maintain safety in behavioral health communication. We propose a safety-aware, role-orchestrated multi-agent LLM…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ha Na Cho

In this study, we explore the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) for generating synthetic users and simulating user conversations with a task-oriented dialogue system and present detailed results and their analysis. We propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Adnan Ahmad , Stefan Hillmann , Sebastian Möller

Pre-trained conversation models (PCMs) have demonstrated remarkable results in task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems. Many PCMs focus predominantly on dialogue management tasks like dialogue state tracking, dialogue generation tasks like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Mingtao Yang , See-Kiong Ng , Jinlan Fu

Existing dialog system models require extensive human annotations and are difficult to generalize to different tasks. The recent success of large pre-trained language models such as BERT and GPT-2 (Devlin et al., 2019; Radford et al., 2019)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Qingyang Wu , Yichi Zhang , Yu Li , Zhou Yu

Task oriented dialogue systems (TOD) complete particular tasks based on user preferences across natural language interactions. Considering the impressive performance of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing (NLP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Arezoo Saedi , Afsaneh Fatemi , Mohammad Ali Nematbakhsh , Sophie Rosset , Anne Vilnat

Building an end-to-end conversational agent for multi-domain task-oriented dialogues has been an open challenge for two main reasons. First, tracking dialogue states of multiple domains is non-trivial as the dialogue agent must obtain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Hung Le , Doyen Sahoo , Chenghao Liu , Nancy F. Chen , Steven C. H. Hoi

Task-oriented dialogue systems have garnered significant attention due to their conversational ability to accomplish goals, such as booking airline tickets for users. Traditionally, task-oriented dialogue systems are conceptualized as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Pu-Hai Yang , Heyan Huang , Heng-Da Xu , Fanshu Sun , Xian-Ling Mao , Chaoxu Mu

Large language models (LLMs), due to their advanced natural language capabilities, have seen significant success in applications where the user interface is usually a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) agent and engages the user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Fei Wei , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding

Task-oriented dialogue systems help users accomplish tasks such as booking a movie ticket and ordering food via conversation. Generative models parameterized by a deep neural network are widely used for next turn response generation in such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Prasanna Parthasarathi , Arvind Neelakantan , Sharan Narang

The reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs), defined as their ability to analyze, infer, and make decisions based on input information, is essential for building intelligent task-oriented dialogue systems. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yu Zhu , Kai Yang

Large language models (LLMs) are powerful dialogue agents, but specializing them towards fulfilling a specific function can be challenging. Instructing tuning, i.e. tuning models on instruction and sample responses generated by humans…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Dennis Ulmer , Elman Mansimov , Kaixiang Lin , Justin Sun , Xibin Gao , Yi Zhang

This paper introduces a simple yet effective data-centric approach for the task of improving persona-conditioned dialogue agents. Prior model-centric approaches unquestioningly depend on the raw crowdsourced benchmark datasets such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Minju Kim , Beong-woo Kwak , Youngwook Kim , Hong-in Lee , Seung-won Hwang , Jinyoung Yeo

Dialog management (DM) is a crucial component in a task-oriented dialog system. Given the dialog history, DM predicts the dialog state and decides the next action that the dialog agent should take. Recently, dialog policy learning has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Yinpei Dai , Huihua Yu , Yixuan Jiang , Chengguang Tang , Yongbin Li , Jian Sun

Despite advancements in conversational AI, language models encounter challenges to handle diverse conversational tasks, and existing dialogue dataset collections often lack diversity and comprehensiveness. To tackle these issues, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jianguo Zhang , Kun Qian , Zhiwei Liu , Shelby Heinecke , Rui Meng , Ye Liu , Zhou Yu , Huan Wang , Silvio Savarese , Caiming Xiong