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Alexandre Nguyen

Alumni

Publications

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot (Short Version)
Iulian V. Serban
Chinnadhurai Sankar
Mathieu Germain
Saizheng Zhang
Zhouhan Lin
Sandeep Subramanian
Taesup Kim
Michael Pieper
Sarath Chandar
Nan Rosemary Ke
Sai Rajeswar
Alexandre De Brébisson
Jose M. R. Sotelo
Dendi Suhubdy
Vincent Michalski
Alexandre Nguyen
Joelle Pineau
Yoshua Bengio
We present MILABOT: a deep reinforcement learning chatbot developed by the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) for the Amazon … (see more)Alexa Prize competition. MILABOT is capable of conversing with humans on popular small talk topics through both speech and text. The system consists of an ensemble of natural language generation and retrieval models, including neural network and template-based models. By applying reinforcement learning to crowdsourced data and real-world user interactions, the system has been trained to select an appropriate response from the models in its ensemble. The system has been evaluated through A/B testing with real-world users, where it performed significantly better than other systems. The results highlight the potential of coupling ensemble systems with deep reinforcement learning as a fruitful path for developing real-world, open-domain conversational agents.
2017-12-31
arXiv (preprint)
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A Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot
Iulian V. Serban
Chinnadhurai Sankar
Mathieu Germain
Saizheng Zhang
Zhouhan Lin
Sandeep Subramanian
Taesup Kim
Michael Pieper
Sarath Chandar
Nan Rosemary Ke
Sai Mudumba
Alexandre De Brébisson
Jose M. R. Sotelo
Dendi Suhubdy
Vincent Michalski
Alexandre Nguyen
Joelle Pineau
Yoshua Bengio
We present MILABOT: a deep reinforcement learning chatbot developed by the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) for the Amazon … (see more)Alexa Prize competition. MILABOT is capable of conversing with humans on popular small talk topics through both speech and text. The system consists of an ensemble of natural language generation and retrieval models, including template-based models, bag-of-words models, sequence-to-sequence neural network and latent variable neural network models. By applying reinforcement learning to crowdsourced data and real-world user interactions, the system has been trained to select an appropriate response from the models in its ensemble. The system has been evaluated through A/B testing with real-world users, where it performed significantly better than many competing systems. Due to its machine learning architecture, the system is likely to improve with additional data.
2017-09-06
ArXiv (preprint)
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