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cs.LG2016★ 138 cited
A User Simulator for Task-Completion Dialogues
Xiujun Li, Zachary C. Lipton, Bhuwan Dhingra +3
Despite widespread interests in reinforcement-learning for task-oriented dialogue systems, several obstacles can frustrate research and development progress. First, reinforcement l…
cs.LG2016★ 89 cited
BBQ-Networks: Efficient Exploration in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
Zachary C. Lipton, Xiujun Li, Jianfeng Gao +3
We present a new algorithm that significantly improves the efficiency of exploration for deep Q-learning agents in dialogue systems. Our agents explore via Thompson sampling, drawi…