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most citedOpen-Domain Conversational Agents: Current Progress, Open Problems, and Future Directions

42 citations · 110 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2022

The CRINGE Loss: Learning what language not to model

Leonard Adolphs, Tianyu Gao, Jing Xu +3

Standard language model training employs gold human documents or human-human interaction data, and treats all training data as positive examples. Growing evidence shows that even w…

cs.CL20224 cited

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Cherryade: Converting Feedback from Bad Responses into Good Labels

Weiyan Shi, Emily Dinan, Kurt Shuster +2

Deployed dialogue agents have the potential to integrate human feedback to continuously improve themselves. However, humans may not always provide explicit signals when the chatbot…

cs.CL202220 cited

Language Models that Seek for Knowledge: Modular Search & Generation for Dialogue and Prompt Completion

Kurt Shuster, Mojtaba Komeili, Leonard Adolphs +3

Language models (LMs) have recently been shown to generate more factual responses by employing modularity (Zhou et al., 2021) in combination with retrieval (Adolphs et al., 2021).…

cs.CL20211 cited

Reason first, then respond: Modular Generation for Knowledge-infused Dialogue

Leonard Adolphs, Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek +2

Large language models can produce fluent dialogue but often hallucinate factual inaccuracies. While retrieval-augmented models help alleviate this issue, they still face a difficul…

cs.CL20215 cited

Retrieval Augmentation Reduces Hallucination in Conversation

Kurt Shuster, Spencer Poff, Moya Chen +2

Despite showing increasingly human-like conversational abilities, state-of-the-art dialogue models often suffer from factual incorrectness and hallucination of knowledge (Roller et…

cs.CL2020

Multi-Modal Open-Domain Dialogue

Kurt Shuster, Eric Michael Smith, Da Ju +1

Recent work in open-domain conversational agents has demonstrated that significant improvements in model engagingness and humanness metrics can be achieved via massive scaling in b…