Challenge: Existing methods for topic shift detection focus on shallow local reasoning, overlooking the importance of considering the global historical structure and local details to elucidate the underlying causes of topic shift.
Approach: They propose a dual-process theory for dialogue topic shift detection that employs Large Language Models to extract and store the global topic structure of historical dialogue, while a reasoning module introduces a LLM to generate reasoning samples between the response and the most recent topic of historical dialog.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art on three public datasets and is based on a dual-process theory.

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