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Approach: They propose a Personalized Adaptive Interactions Graph Encoder that integrates user's affinities and query semantics to refine utterance embeddings.
Outcome: The proposed Query Rewriting (QR) techniques improve the rewrite accuracy of state-of-the-art baselines by 12.5–17.5% while having nearly ten times fewer parameters.

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