Challenge: Existing knowledge-grounded dialogue generation algorithms require annotated knowledge to generate a response grounded on the retrieved knowledge.
Approach: They propose an efficient algorithm for latent variable modeling that leverages large amount of dialogue data.
Outcome: The proposed algorithm outperforms the supervised learning algorithm on knowledge-grounded dialogue datasets while maintaining efficiency and scalability.

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