Summary of Exploring React Prompting For Task-oriented Dialogue: Insights and Shortcomings, by Michelle Elizabeth et al.
Exploring ReAct Prompting for Task-Oriented Dialogue: Insights and Shortcomings
by Michelle Elizabeth, Morgan Veyret, Miguel Couceiro, Ondrej Dusek, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Large language models (LLMs) have gained popularity for their capabilities in unstructured conversations. Recent advancements in prompting strategies like reasoning and acting (ReAct), inspired by Yao et al.’s work (2022), have shown promise in solving complex tasks traditionally requiring reinforcement learning. This study applies the ReAct strategy to guide LLMs in task-oriented dialogue (TOD) scenarios, evaluating its performance both in simulation and with real users. While ReAct-LLMs underperform state-of-the-art approaches on success rate in simulation, this gap narrows when evaluated by humans, who report higher subjective satisfaction with ReAct-LLM despite its lower success rate, likely due to its natural and confidently phrased responses. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study looks at how language models can be improved for task-oriented conversations. They used a new way of giving prompts called reasoning and acting (ReAct) which helps the model make better decisions. The researchers tested ReAct on language models and found that even though it didn’t do as well as other methods in some tests, people liked its responses more because they sounded natural and confident. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Prompting » Reinforcement learning
