Papers by Wanshi Xu
Learning to Match Representations is Better for End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog System (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing systems for task-oriented dialogue lack belief states as supervisory signals. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for knowledge retrieval driven by matching representations . they use a matching signal extractor to extract matching representation between contexts and entities . |
| Outcome: | Experiments on three standard benchmarks show that the proposed method performs better than existing approaches. |
Accelerating Multiple Intent Detection and Slot Filling via Targeted Knowledge Distillation (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing non-autoregressive Spoken Language Understanding models suffer from multi-modality problem . current methods have little prior knowledge about the reference during inference . |
| Approach: | They propose a Targeted Knowledge Distillation Framework (TKDF) for multi-intent SLU that utilizes the knowledge distillation method to improve the performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models on two public multi-intent datasets while speeding up by over 4.5 times. |
What are the Generator Preferences for End-to-end Task-Oriented Dialog System? (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to improve the accuracy of entity retrieval are not effective. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that improves the performance of task-oriented dialogue systems by obtaining fine-grained matching information between contexts and entities and extracting the entity attribute shift matrix as preference signals. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods and improves the quality of the dialogue. |
Relevance Is a Guiding Light: Relevance-aware Adaptive Learning for End-to-end Task-oriented Dialogue System (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to training task-oriented dialogue systems struggle with the Distractive Attributes Problem (DAP) Existing methods struggle to deal with false but similar knowledge (hard negative entities) |
| Approach: | They propose a two-stage training framework that eliminates hard negatives step-by-step and aligns retrieval with generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method eliminates hard negatives step-by-step and aligns retrieval with generation. |