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Collective reflection-based multi-agent reinforcement learning framework for task-oriented dialogue policy learning.

Kai Xu1, Zhenyu Wang2, Yangyang Zhao3

  • 1Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Intellectual Property and Big Data, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou, 510665, Guangdong, China; School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, Guangdong, China.

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This study introduces a Multi-Agent dialogue Policy Learning (MAPL) approach for better dialogue systems. MAPL enhances credit assignment and collaboration, leading to improved task completion and dialogue success rates.

Keywords:
Deep reinforcement learningDialogue policy learningHuman-machine dialogue systemMulti-agent reinforcement learning

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Area of Science:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing

Background:

  • Multi-agent reinforcement learning is crucial for cooperative dialogue policy modeling.
  • Existing methods struggle with error propagation and adaptive collaboration.
  • Effective credit assignment and balanced agent relationships are key challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a centralized Multi-Agent dialogue Policy Learning (MAPL) approach.
  • To enhance credit assignment and enable adaptive collaboration in dialogue systems.
  • To improve the efficiency and success rate of dialogue policies.

Main Methods:

  • MAPL utilizes multiple auxiliary agents and a main agent for policy learning.
  • Auxiliary agents update Q-values and assign user intent-level credits.
  • A balancing parameter dynamically adjusts intent credibility and policy behavior.

Main Results:

  • MAPL demonstrates more efficient policy learning capabilities.
  • Experiments show a higher dialogue success rate across three datasets.
  • Ablation studies confirm the positive impact of agent number and configuration.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed MAPL approach effectively addresses limitations in existing multi-agent dialogue systems.
  • MAPL offers a practical and efficient method for enhancing dialogue policy performance.
  • The approach shows significant improvements in task completion and overall dialogue success.