Challenge: Task-oriented dialog systems require external knowledge base to generate a response . current systems require scanning the KB at each turn, which is inefficient when the kb scales up .
Approach: They propose to generate entity autoregressively before leveraging it to guide response generation.
Outcome: Experiments on MultiWOZ 2.1 single and CAMREST show that the proposed system generates more high-quality and entity-consistent responses in an end-to-end manner.

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