| Challenge: | Existing personalized dialogue models use human designed persona descriptions to improve dialogue consistency. |
| Approach: | They propose to extend Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) to personalized dialogue learning without using persona descriptions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baseline models in terms of human-evaluated fluency and consistency on a persona-chat dataset. |
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Beyond Candidates : Adaptive Dialogue Agent Utilizing Persona and Knowledge (2023.findings-emnlp)
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