DIALOGPT : Large-Scale Generative Pre-training for Conversational Response Generation

Yizhe Zhang, Siqi Sun, Michel Galley, Yen-Chun Chen, Chris Brockett, Xiang Gao, Jianfeng Gao, Jingjing Liu, Bill Dolan


Abstract
We present a large, tunable neural conversational response generation model, DIALOGPT (dialogue generative pre-trained transformer). Trained on 147M conversation-like exchanges extracted from Reddit comment chains over a period spanning from 2005 through 2017, DialoGPT extends the Hugging Face PyTorch transformer to attain a performance close to human both in terms of automatic and human evaluation in single-turn dialogue settings. We show that conversational systems that leverage DialoGPT generate more relevant, contentful and context-consistent responses than strong baseline systems. The pre-trained model and training pipeline are publicly released to facilitate research into neural response generation and the development of more intelligent open-domain dialogue systems.
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2020.acl-demos.30
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Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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July
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2020
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Online
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Asli Celikyilmaz, Tsung-Hsien Wen
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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270–278
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-demos.30
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-demos.30
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Yizhe Zhang, Siqi Sun, Michel Galley, Yen-Chun Chen, Chris Brockett, Xiang Gao, Jianfeng Gao, Jingjing Liu, and Bill Dolan. 2020. DIALOGPT : Large-Scale Generative Pre-training for Conversational Response Generation. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 270–278, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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DIALOGPT : Large-Scale Generative Pre-training for Conversational Response Generation (Zhang et al., ACL 2020)
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