Modeling Personalization in Continuous Space for Response Generation via Augmented Wasserstein Autoencoders (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing work on variableal autoencoders and waterstein autoencoding models has shown significant progress in open-domain response generation. |
| Approach: | They propose to embed user-level and utterance-level information into two multimodal distributions and combine them into a mixed distribution. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models on a large-scale real-world dataset. |
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