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cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

Am I Me or You? State-of-the-Art Dialogue Models Cannot Maintain an Identity

Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Arthur Szlam +1

State-of-the-art dialogue models still often stumble with regards to factual accuracy and self-contradiction. Anecdotally, they have been observed to fail to maintain character ide…

cs.CL2021★ 1 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.CL2021★ 28 cited

NormFormer: Improved Transformer Pretraining with Extra Normalization

Sam Shleifer, Jason Weston, Myle Ott

During pretraining, the Pre-LayerNorm transformer suffers from a gradient magnitude mismatch: gradients at early layers are much larger than at later layers. These issues can be al…

cs.CL2021★ 41 cited

Beyond Goldfish Memory: Long-Term Open-Domain Conversation

Jing Xu, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston

Despite recent improvements in open-domain dialogue models, state of the art models are trained and evaluated on short conversations with little context. In contrast, the long-term…

cs.CL2021★ 5 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…