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A Hierarchical Latent Variable Encoder-Decoder Model for Generating Dialogues

AAAI 2017 · Probabilistic and scientific modeling › Variational and generative sampling · approach: Disentangled and discrete latent models · 701 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Add a turn-level stochastic latent variable to HREDTwitter dialogue response generation · Twitter short contextshuman preference: 32.3 ± 2.4 wins; 42.5 ± 2.6 lossesHurt
Add a turn-level stochastic latent variable to HREDTwitter dialogue response generation · Twitter long contextshuman preference wins: 41.9 ± 2.2Helped
Add a turn-level stochastic latent variable to HREDTwitter dialogue response generation · Twitter short and long contextshuman preference wins: 42.0 ± 2.8; 41.5 ± 2.8Helped
Add a turn-level stochastic latent variable to HREDDialogue response generation · Twitter 1-turnEmbedding Average: 0.512 -> 0.533Helped
Add a turn-level stochastic latent variable to HREDDialogue response generation · Ubuntu 1-turnEmbedding Average: 0.577 -> 0.542Hurt
Add a turn-level stochastic latent variable to HREDDialogue response generation · Twitter and Ubuntu 3-turnEmbedding Average: 0.646 -> 0.689; 0.742 -> 0.777Helped
Add a turn-level stochastic latent variable to HREDDialogue response generation · Twitter 1-turnaverage response length: 11.64 -> 12.29Helped
Use decoder word dropout and gradually increase the KL-term weightVHRED training · Twitter and Ubuntutraining stability and latent-variable useHelped
Apply batch normalization to the feed-forward networks (ablation)VHRED training · Dialogue response generationvariational boundNo clear effect
Keep the deterministic connection from the context RNN to the decoder RNNVHRED · Dialogue response generationvariational boundHelped

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