THEANINE: Revisiting Memory Management in Long-term Conversations with Timeline-augmented Response Generation
<|reference_start|>THEANINE: Revisiting Memory Management in Long-term Conversations with Timeline-augmented Response Generation: Large language models (LLMs) are capable of processing lengthy dialogue histories during prolonged interaction with users without additional memory modules; however, their responses tend to overlook or incorrectly recall information from the past. In this paper, we revisit memory-augmented response generation in the era of LLMs. While prior work focuses on getting rid of outdated memories, we argue that such memories can provide contextual cues that help dialogue systems understand the development of past events and, therefore, benefit response generation. We present Theanine, a framework that augments LLMs' response generation with memory timelines -- series of memories that demonstrate the development and causality of relevant past events. Along with Theanine, we introduce TeaFarm, a counterfactual-driven question-answering pipeline addressing the limitation of G-Eval in long-term conversations. Supplementary videos of our methods and the TeaBag dataset for TeaFarm evaluation are in https://theanine-693b0.web.app/.<|reference_end|>
@article{ong2024towards,
    title={Towards Lifelong Dialogue Agents via Relation-aware Memory Construction
  and Timeline-augmented Response Generation},
    author={Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Namyoung Kim, Minju Gwak, Hyungjoo Chae, Taeyoon
  Kwon, Yohan Jo, Seung-won Hwang, Dongha Lee, Jinyoung Yeo},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.10996},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2406.10996},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}