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Training Dialogue Systems by AI Feedback for Improving Overall Dialogue Impression

Project Overview

The document explores the application of generative AI in education, particularly through the development of advanced dialogue systems aimed at enhancing user engagement and conversational quality. By focusing on key attributes such as consistency, personality, and empathy, the study highlights the use of reinforcement learning from AI feedback (RLAIF) to optimize large language models (LLMs). This approach allows for fine-tuning the models with targeted reward signals, resulting in notable improvements in dialogue interactions. The findings underscore that both automatic assessments and human evaluations confirm the enhanced quality of conversations fostered by these models. Overall, the use of generative AI in educational settings presents promising outcomes for creating more engaging and effective learning experiences through improved conversational agents.

Key Applications

Training dialogue systems using reinforcement learning from AI feedback (RLAIF).

Context: Educational context includes training dialogue systems for user engagement; target audience includes developers and researchers in AI and education technology.

Implementation: Implemented through supervised fine-tuning of LLMs, comparing reward models based on prompting and supervised fine-tuning using a dialogue dataset annotated with overall impressions.

Outcomes: Improved metrics for dialogue impressions, increased naturalness of dialogue responses, and positive correlations in evaluations.

Challenges: Evaluating the overall dialogue impression remains complex; reliance on high-quality human evaluation datasets is needed.

Implementation Barriers

Technical barrier

Evaluating entire dialogues for overall impressions is challenging and requires sophisticated methodologies.

Proposed Solutions: Utilizing reward models and supervised fine-tuning to provide structured feedback for dialogue optimization.

Resource barrier

High-quality reinforcement learning requires a large number of evaluators or datasets for training.

Proposed Solutions: Development of AI feedback systems to reduce reliance on human evaluation.

Project Team

Kai Yoshida

Researcher

Masahiro Mizukami

Researcher

Seiya Kawano

Researcher

Canasai Kruengkrai

Researcher

Hiroaki Sugiyama

Researcher

Koichiro Yoshino

Researcher

Contact Information

For information about the paper, please contact the authors.

Authors: Kai Yoshida, Masahiro Mizukami, Seiya Kawano, Canasai Kruengkrai, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Koichiro Yoshino

Source Publication: View Original PaperLink opens in a new window

Project Contact: Dr. Jianhua Yang

LLM Model Version: gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18

Analysis Provider: Openai

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