" Do you follow me?": A Survey of Recent Approaches in Dialogue State Tracking

L Jacqmin, LM Rojas-Barahona, B Favre - arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.14627, 2022 - arxiv.org
While communicating with a user, a task-oriented dialogue system has to track the user's
needs at each turn according to the conversation history. This process called dialogue state …

Unified dialog model pre-training for task-oriented dialog understanding and generation

W He, Y Dai, M Yang, J Sun, F Huang, L Si… - Proceedings of the 45th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Recently, pre-training methods have shown remarkable success in task-oriented dialog
(TOD) systems. However, most existing pre-trained models for TOD focus on either dialog …

On the effectiveness of offline RL for dialogue response generation

P Sodhi, F Wu, ER Elenberg… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
A common training technique for language models is teacher forcing (TF). TF attempts to
match human language exactly, even though identical meanings can be expressed in …

Robust dialogue state tracking with weak supervision and sparse data

M Heck, N Lubis, C Niekerk, S Feng… - Transactions of the …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Generalizing dialogue state tracking (DST) to new data is especially challenging due to the
strong reliance on abundant and fine-grained supervision during training. Sample sparsity …

Space-3: Unified dialog model pre-training for task-oriented dialog understanding and generation

W He, Y Dai, M Yang, J Sun, F Huang, L Si… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Recently, pre-training methods have shown remarkable success in task-oriented dialog
(TOD) systems. However, most existing pre-trained models for TOD focus on either dialog …

MoNET: Tackle state momentum via noise-enhanced training for dialogue state tracking

H Zhang, J Bao, H Sun, Y Wu, W Li, S Cui… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Dialogue state tracking (DST) aims to convert the dialogue history into dialogue states which
consist of slot-value pairs. As condensed structural information memorizing all history …

Chain of Thought Explanation for Dialogue State Tracking

L Xu, N Peng, D Zhou, SK Ng, J Fu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.04656, 2024 - arxiv.org
Dialogue state tracking (DST) aims to record user queries and goals during a conversational
interaction achieved by maintaining a prede-fined set of slots and their corresponding …

Unidu: Towards a unified generative dialogue understanding framework

Z Chen, L Chen, B Chen, L Qin, Y Liu, S Zhu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
With the development of pre-trained language models, remarkable success has been
witnessed in dialogue understanding (DU). However, current DU approaches usually …

Turn-Level Active Learning for Dialogue State Tracking

Z Zhang, M Fang, F Ye, L Chen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Dialogue state tracking (DST) plays an important role in task-oriented dialogue systems.
However, collecting a large amount of turn-by-turn annotated dialogue data is costly and …

Improving few-shot performance of dst model through multitask to better serve language-impaired people

M Sun, Q Gao, Y Mou, G Dong, R Liu… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Artificial intelligence-based virtual assistants make people's daily life more convenient.
However, the utterances of language-impaired people are limited and different in …