Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Abstract
Personalizing conversational agents can enhance the quality of conversations and increase user engagement. However, they often lack external knowledge to tend to a user’s persona appropriately. This is particularly crucial for practical applications like mental health support, nutrition planning, culturally sensitive conversations, or reducing toxic behavior in conversational agents. To enhance the relevance and comprehensiveness of personalized responses, we propose using a two-step approach that involves (1) selectively integrating user personas and (2) contextualizing the response with supplementing information from a background knowledge source. We develop K-PERM (Knowledge-guided PErsonalization with Reward Modulation), a dynamic conversational agent that combines these elements. K-PERM achieves state-of-the-art performance on the popular Fo- Cus dataset, containing real-world personalized conversations concerning global landmarks. We show that using responses from K-PERM can improve performance in state-ofthe- art LLMs (GPT 3.5) by 10.5%, highlighting the impact of K-PERM for personalizing chatbots.1
Publication Info
Preprint version 2024.
Copyright © 2024, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org).
APA Citation
Raj, K., Roy, K., Bonagiri, V., Govil, P., Thirunarayan, K., Goswami, R., & Gaur, M. (2024). K-PERM: Personalized response generation using dynamic knowledge retrieval and persona-adaptive queries. [Preprint]