2020.acl-main.9@ACL

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#1 PLATO: Pre-trained Dialogue Generation Model with Discrete Latent Variable [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi1] [REL]

Authors: Siqi Bao, Huang He, Fan Wang, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang

Pre-training models have been proved effective for a wide range of natural language processing tasks. Inspired by this, we propose a novel dialogue generation pre-training framework to support various kinds of conversations, including chit-chat, knowledge grounded dialogues, and conversational question answering. In this framework, we adopt flexible attention mechanisms to fully leverage the bi-directional context and the uni-directional characteristic of language generation. We also introduce discrete latent variables to tackle the inherent one-to-many mapping problem in response generation. Two reciprocal tasks of response generation and latent act recognition are designed and carried out simultaneously within a shared network. Comprehensive experiments on three publicly available datasets verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed framework.