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    This study introduces a personalized dialogue system using multitask and reinforcement learning. The model effectively generates high-quality, tailored responses by profiling users and employing the actor-critic algorithm.

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    Background:

    • Open-domain dialog generation is a critical yet challenging area in AI.
    • Existing systems often lack personalization, leading to generic user interactions.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a personalized dialogue system (MRPDG) that generates tailored, high-quality responses.
    • To integrate multitask learning and reinforcement learning for enhanced dialogue generation.
    • To evaluate the effectiveness of different reinforcement learning algorithms for personalization.

    Main Methods:

    • MRPDG employs two subtasks: author profiling (auxiliary) and personalized response generation (primary).
    • Reinforcement learning algorithms, including Q-learning, policy gradient, and actor-critic (AC), were investigated.
    • Three reward functions were designed to optimize conversation quality.

    Main Results:

    • The actor-critic algorithm demonstrated superior performance within the MRPDG framework.
    • Experiments on real-life datasets showed MRPDG generates high-quality personalized dialogues.
    • MRPDG outperformed compared methods across metrics like human evaluation, BLEU, and perplexity.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed MRPDG system effectively produces personalized dialogues for diverse users.
    • The integration of author profiling and reinforcement learning significantly improves dialogue quality.
    • The actor-critic algorithm is a promising approach for personalized dialogue generation.