An Adversarial Learning Framework for a Persona-based Multi-turn Dialogue Model
In this paper, we extend the persona-based sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) neural network conversation model to a multi-turn dialogue scenario by modifying the state-of-the-art hredGAN architecture to simultaneously capture utterance attributes such as speaker identity, dialogue topic, speaker sentiments and so on. The proposed system, phredGAN has a persona-based HRED generator (PHRED) and a conditional discriminator. We also explore two approaches to accomplish the conditional discriminator: (1) , a system that passes the attribute representation as an additional input into a traditional adversarial discriminator, and (2) , a dual discriminator system which in addition to the adversarial discriminator, collaboratively predicts the attribute(s) that generated the input utterance. To demonstrate the superior performance of phredGAN over the persona SeqSeq model, we experiment with two conversational datasets, the Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus (UDC) and TV series transcripts from the Big Bang Theory and Friends. Performance comparison is made with respect to a variety of quantitative measures as well as crowd-sourced human evaluation. We also explore the trade-offs from using either variant of on datasets with many but weak attribute modalities (such as with Big Bang Theory and Friends) and ones with few but strong attribute modalities (customer-agent interactions in Ubuntu dataset).
 This paper uses the idea from *A Persona-Based Neural Conversation Model* by Li et al and incrementally applies it to the *Multi-turn Dialogue Response Generation in an Adversarial Learning Framework* work-in-progress by Olabiyi et al. The paper by Olabiyi uses the idea of adversarial training to the HRED work by Xing et al (Hierarchical Recurrent Attention Network for Response Generation). The paper shows very promising results for controlling the response generation based on input attributes with adversarial training. Compared to the persona based model, this work seems to outperform that model significantly as reported in Table 1 (in terms of Perplexity/Bleu). It would have been great to see the quantitative comparison in terms of other metrics (if the authors could try to reproduce their results). There are other interesting ways to incorporate attribute information into the dialogue model such as reported in the work of Lee et al (SCALABLE SENTIMENT FOR SEQUENCE-TO-SEQUENCE CHATBOT RESPONSE WITH PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS) - since this paper is primarily about personalization of responses - a comparison to some of the methods used in Lee*s work would have been very relevant and made the paper much more convincing in terms of core contributions. The model and architecture is pretty convincing but the paper lacks more in-depth analysis, comparison and evaluation of the model.
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An Adversarial Learning Framework for a Persona-based Multi-turn Dialogue Model
In this paper, we extend the persona-based sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) neural network conversation model to a multi-turn dialogue scenario by modifying the state-of-the-art hredGAN architecture to simultaneously capture utterance attributes such as speaker identity, dialogue topic, speaker sentiments and so on. The proposed system, phredGAN has a persona-based HRED generator (PHRED) and a conditional discriminator. We also explore two approaches to accomplish the conditional discriminator: (1) , a system that passes the attribute representation as an additional input into a traditional adversarial discriminator, and (2) , a dual discriminator system which in addition to the adversarial discriminator, collaboratively predicts the attribute(s) that generated the input utterance. To demonstrate the superior performance of phredGAN over the persona SeqSeq model, we experiment with two conversational datasets, the Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus (UDC) and TV series transcripts from the Big Bang Theory and Friends. Performance comparison is made with respect to a variety of quantitative measures as well as crowd-sourced human evaluation. We also explore the trade-offs from using either variant of on datasets with many but weak attribute modalities (such as with Big Bang Theory and Friends) and ones with few but strong attribute modalities (customer-agent interactions in Ubuntu dataset).
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 This paper uses the idea from *A Persona-Based Neural Conversation Model* by Li et al and incrementally applies it to the *Multi-turn Dialogue Response Generation in an Adversarial Learning Framework* work-in-progress by Olabiyi et al. The paper by Olabiyi uses the idea of adversarial training to the HRED work by Xing et al (Hierarchical Recurrent Attention Network for Response Generation). The paper shows very promising results for controlling the response generation based on input attributes with adversarial training. Compared to the persona based model, this work seems to outperform that model significantly as reported in Table 1 (in terms of Perplexity/Bleu). It would have been great to see the quantitative comparison in terms of other metrics (if the authors could try to reproduce their results). There are other interesting ways to incorporate attribute information into the dialogue model such as reported in the work of Lee et al (SCALABLE SENTIMENT FOR SEQUENCE-TO-SEQUENCE CHATBOT RESPONSE WITH PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS) - since this paper is primarily about personalization of responses - a comparison to some of the methods used in Lee*s work would have been very relevant and made the paper much more convincing in terms of core contributions. The model and architecture is pretty convincing but the paper lacks more in-depth analysis, comparison and evaluation of the model.
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 This paper uses the idea from *A Persona-Based Neural Conversation Model* by Li et al and incrementally applies it to the *Multi-turn Dialogue Response Generation in an Adversarial Learning Framework* work-in-progress by Olabiyi et al. The paper by Olabiyi uses the idea of adversarial training to the HRED work by Xing et al (Hierarchical Recurrent Attention Network for Response Generation). The paper shows very promising results for controlling the response generation based on input attributes with adversarial training. Compared to the persona based model, this work seems to outperform that model significantly as reported in Table 1 (in terms of Perplexity/Bleu). It would have been great to see the quantitative comparison in terms of other metrics (if the authors could try to reproduce their results). There are other interesting ways to incorporate attribute information into the dialogue model such as reported in the work of Lee et al (SCALABLE SENTIMENT FOR SEQUENCE-TO-SEQUENCE CHATBOT RESPONSE WITH PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS) - since this paper is primarily about personalization of responses - a comparison to some of the methods used in Lee*s work would have been very relevant and made the paper much more convincing in terms of core contributions. The model and architecture is pretty convincing but the paper lacks more in-depth analysis, comparison and evaluation of the model.