Mars: Modeling Context & State Representations with Contrastive Learning for End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Empirical results show dialog context representations are more conducive to multi-turn task-oriented dialog. |
| Approach: | They propose an end-to-end task-oriented dialog system with two contrastive learning strategies to model relationship between dialog context and belief/action state representations. |
| Outcome: | Empirical results show that dialog context representations are more conducive to multi-turn task-oriented dialog. |
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