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Approach: They propose an easy-to-extend learning framework based on latent vectors to provide training guidance without resorting to extra data or complicating network’s inner structure.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves the quality of generated responses according to automatic metrics and human evaluations, yielding more diverse and smooth replies.

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