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Conversational AI Reading Materials

Conversational AI Reading Materials.

❤️ ‼️ 07/18/2023: Check our latest updates on DialogStudio, a meticulously curated collection of dialogue datasets. These datasets are unified under a consistent format while retaining their original information. We incorporate domain-aware prompts and identify dataset licenses, making DialogStudio an exceptionally rich and diverse resource for dialogue research and model training.

==> Tutorials

❤️ Updated on Dec 18, 2020

==> Deadlines

NIPS 2018 Workshops: Around Octomber 25, 2018

CVPR-2019: November 16, 2018 (including rebuttal)

NAACL-2019: Abastract: December 3, 2018, Full paper: December 10, 2018

KDD-2019: February 3, 2019

ICML-2019: January, 18 2019

IJCAI-2019: February 25, 2019

ACL-2019: March 4, 2019

EMNLP-2019: May 21, 2019

More can be found at the Conference Deadline

==> Books

#c5f015 Updated on Jan 28, 2020

==> Datasets

#c5f015 Updated on Aug 17, 2020

Multilingual:

Intent Detection:

  • BANKING77: A single domain intent dataset with 77 intents; CLINC150: A dataset with 15 domains and 150 intents in total, and this dataset is mainly designed for Out-of-Scope (OOS) predictions.

#1589F0 Updated on Sep. 13, 2018.

==> GAN

  • SeqGAN - SeqGAN: Sequence Generative Adversarial Nets with Policy Gradient
  • MaliGAN - Maximum-Likelihood Augmented Discrete Generative Adversarial Networks
  • RankGAN - Adversarial ranking for language generation
  • LeakGAN - Long Text Generation via Adversarial Training with Leaked Information
  • TextGAN - Adversarial Feature Matching for Text Generation
  • GSGAN - GANS for Sequences of Discrete Elements with the Gumbel-softmax Distribution

==> Reinforcement Learning

  • (*****) Deep Reinforcement Learning For Sequence to Sequence Models
  • Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning
  • (*****) Towards Diverse Text Generation with Inverse Reinforcement Learning
  • (*****) Reinforcement Learning and Control as Probabilistic Inference-Tutorial and Review
  • (*****) Policy gradient methods for reinforcement learning with function approximation
  • (*****) Proximal policy optimization algorithms

Change the on-policy gradient method to off-policy gradient method to improve the data efficiency. And use trust region optimization method to search for the better result.

  • (*****) Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning

Use the deterministic policy instead of stochastic policy to deal with the continuous action space. The architecture of framework is Actor-Critic.

==> Transfer Learning/Meta-Learning

  • (*****) Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning
  • A spect-augmented Adversarial Networks for Domain Adaptation
  • (*****) Natural Language to Structured Query Generation via Meta-Learning
  • (*****) Learning a Prior over Intent via Meta-Inverse Reinforcement Learning

==> Multi-Agent Learning

  • Multi-Agent Actor-Critic for Mixed Cooperative-Competitive Environments
  • Multi-agent cooperation and the emergence of (natural) language
  • (*****)Counterfactual Multi-Agent Policy Gradients (AAAI best paper) ==========

(Application)

==> (Textual) Dialog Generation

  • A Hierarchical Latent Structure for Variational Conversation Modeling
  • A Hierarchical Latent Variable Encoder-Decoder Model for Generating Dialogues
  • (*****) Improving Variational Encoder-Decoders in Dialogue Generation
  • (*****) DialogWAE- Multimodal Response Generation with Conditional Wasserstein Auto-Encoder
  • Learning Discourse-level Diversity for Neural Dialog Models using Conditional Variational Autoencoders

==> VQA (Visual Question Answering)

  • (**) Visual Question Answering- A Survey of Methods and Datasets
  • (****) Visual Question Answering as a Meta Learning Task
  • Cross-Dataset Adaptation for Visual Question Answering
  • Joint Image Captioning and Question Answering
  • Learning Answer Embeddings for Visual Question Answering
  • Question Answering through Transfer Learning from Large Fine-grained Supervision Data

==> Visual Dialog

  • (**) Visual Dialog
  • (****) Are You Talking to Me-Reasoned Visual Dialog Generation through Adversarial Learning
  • (****)Two can play this Game-Visual Dialog with Discriminative Question Generation
  • Zero-Shot Dialog Generation with Cross-Domain Latent Actions
  • Adversarial Learning of Task-Oriented Neural Dialog Models
  • (*****)Best of Both Worlds-Transferring Knowledge from Discriminative Learning to a Generative Visual Dialog Model
  • (*****)Learning Cooperative Visual Dialog Agents with Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • (****)Mind Your Language-Learning Visually Grounded Dialog in a Multi-Agent Setting

==> Embodied Question Answering

==> Video Question Answering

  • Open-Ended Long-form Video Question Answering via Adaptive Hierarchical Reinforced Networks.
  • Multi-Turn Video Question Answering via Multi-Stream Hierarchical Attention Context Network.
  • TVQA-Localized, Compositional Video Question Answering

==> Conversational Information Retrieval

  • Dialog-based Interactive Image Retrieval (NIPS2018)
  • Improving Search through A3C Reinforcement Learning based Conversational Agent

==> Video Dialog

  • A New Dataset: Audio-Visual Scene-Aware Dialog
  • End-to-End Audio Visual Scene-Aware Dialog using Multimodal Attention-Based Video Features
  • Audio Visual Scene-Aware Dialog (AVSD) Challenge at DSTC7
  • More details on the webpage