Challenge: Existing methods for intent detection and slot filling decoders could result in misaligned predictions for both tasks.
Approach: They propose a method that leverages label embeddings to jointly guide the decoding process.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms existing methods on two single- and multi-intent SLU benchmarks and can be incorporated into existing models.

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