Summary of Many Hands Make Light Work: Task-oriented Dialogue System with Module-based Mixture-of-experts, by Ruolin Su et al.
Many Hands Make Light Work: Task-Oriented Dialogue System with Module-Based Mixture-of-Experts
by Ruolin Su, Biing-Hwang Juang
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed Soft Mixture-of-Expert Task-Oriented Dialogue system (SMETOD) is designed to excel at subproblems and generate specialized outputs for task-oriented dialogues. By leveraging an ensemble of Mixture-of-Experts (MoEs), SMETOD scales up a task-oriented dialogue system with simplicity and flexibility while maintaining inference efficiency. The model is evaluated on three benchmark functionalities: intent prediction, dialogue state tracking, and dialogue response generation. Experimental results show that SMETOD achieves state-of-the-art performance on most evaluated metrics, outperforming existing strong baselines in terms of cost of inference and correctness in problem-solving. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary SMETOD is a new way to make computers understand what we want them to do. Right now, computers are really good at understanding general conversations, but they’re not as good at following specific instructions or doing tasks for us. This makes it hard for us to use virtual assistants and other automated services that need to do specific things. The researchers came up with a new idea called Soft Mixture-of-Expert Task-Oriented Dialogue system (SMETOD) to solve this problem. SMETOD is like having many small experts working together to understand what we want them to do, and it’s really good at doing tasks for us. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference » Mixture of experts » Tracking
