A Comprehensive Empirical Study on Personalized Dialogue Generation

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Current studies on the generation of personalized dialogue primarily contribute to an agent presenting a consistent personality and driving a more informative response. However, we found that the responses generated from most previous models were self-centered, with little consideration for the user in the dialogue. Moreover, we consider human-like conversations to be essentially based on inferring information about the persona of the other party. Therefore, we propose a novel personalized dialogue generator that detects implicit user personas. Because it is difficult to collect a large amount of detailed personal facts for each user, we attempted to model the potential persona of a user and its representation from the dialogue history with no external knowledge. The perception and fader variables were conceived using conditional variational inference. The two latent variables simulate the process of people becoming aware of each other’s personas and producing a corresponding expression in conversations. Subsequently, posterior-discriminated regularization was performed to enhance the training procedure. Finally, a selector was designed to help our model provide long-sighted responses. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that compared to the state-of-the-art methods, our approach is more concerned with the user’s persona and achieves a notable boost across both automatic metrics and human evaluations.