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20182026
most citedRecipes for Safety in Open-domain Chatbots

97 citations · 249 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.AI2026

According to Me: Long-Term Personalized Referential Memory QA

Jingbiao Mei, Jinghong Chen, Guangyu Yang +3

Personalized AI assistants must recall and reason over long-term user memory, which naturally spans multiple modalities and sources such as images, videos, and emails. However, exi…

cs.CL2020★ 97 cited

Recipes for Safety in Open-domain Chatbots

Jing Xu, Da Ju, Margaret Li +3

Models trained on large unlabeled corpora of human interactions will learn patterns and mimic behaviors therein, which include offensive or otherwise toxic behavior and unwanted bi…

cs.CL2020

How to Motivate Your Dragon: Teaching Goal-Driven Agents to Speak and Act in Fantasy Worlds

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Jack Urbanek, Margaret Li +3

We seek to create agents that both act and communicate with other agents in pursuit of a goal. Towards this end, we extend LIGHT (Urbanek et al. 2019) -- a large-scale crowd-source…

cs.CL2020★ 42 cited

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

Stephen Roller, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason Weston +13

We present our view of what is necessary to build an engaging open-domain conversational agent: covering the qualities of such an agent, the pieces of the puzzle that have been bui…

cs.AI2020★ 8 cited

I love your chain mail! Making knights smile in a fantasy game world: Open-domain goal-oriented dialogue agents

Shrimai Prabhumoye, Margaret Li, Jack Urbanek +4

Dialogue research tends to distinguish between chit-chat and goal-oriented tasks. While the former is arguably more naturalistic and has a wider use of language, the latter has cle…

cs.CL2019★ 19 cited

Don't Say That! Making Inconsistent Dialogue Unlikely with Unlikelihood Training

Margaret Li, Stephen Roller, Ilia Kulikov +4

Generative dialogue models currently suffer from a number of problems which standard maximum likelihood training does not address. They tend to produce generations that (i) rely to…

cs.CL2019★ 77 cited

ACUTE-EVAL: Improved Dialogue Evaluation with Optimized Questions and Multi-turn Comparisons

Margaret Li, Jason Weston, Stephen Roller

While dialogue remains an important end-goal of natural language research, the difficulty of evaluation is an oft-quoted reason why it remains troublesome to make real progress tow…

cs.CL2018★ 6 cited

Towards Empathetic Open-domain Conversation Models: a New Benchmark and Dataset

Hannah Rashkin, Eric Michael Smith, Margaret Li +1

One challenge for dialogue agents is recognizing feelings in the conversation partner and replying accordingly, a key communicative skill. While it is straightforward for humans to…