Notes:
Backpropagation is an algorithm that is used in neural networks to train and update the weights of the network’s connections. It is a supervised learning algorithm, which means that it uses labeled training data to adjust the weights of the network in order to improve its performance.
In the context of chatbots, backpropagation is commonly used to train the neural network that is used to generate responses to user inputs. The chatbot is fed a large amount of training data, which includes examples of user inputs and the corresponding responses that the chatbot should generate. The backpropagation algorithm is then used to adjust the weights of the neural network in order to improve its ability to generate responses that are relevant and appropriate to the user’s input.
Backpropagation is an important algorithm for training and improving the performance of neural networks, and it is widely used in the development of chatbots. It allows chatbots to learn from large amounts of training data, and to generate more accurate and relevant responses to user inputs.
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Neural Question Generation with Transfer Learning and Utilization of External Knowledge
M Delpisheh – 2020 – yorkspace.library.yorku.ca
… The generated QAs can be useful for training deep neural network models for building eg, dialog systems. QG can also benefit reading comprehension (Du, Shao, and Cardie, 2017), self … accomplish a task (eg, dialogue systems, summarization). Therefore, by considering …
Trouble on the horizon: Forecasting the derailment of online conversations as they develop
JP Chang, C Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil – arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.01362, 2019 – arxiv.org
… rather than prediction: recent work in context-aware dialog generation (or “chat- bots”) has proposed … trained on large amounts of unsuper- vised data, similarly to how chatbots are trained … com- ponent are not held fixed during this process; in- stead, backpropagation is allowed …
A Study of State Aliasing in Structured Prediction with RNNs
LE Asri, A Trischler – arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.09310, 2019 – arxiv.org
… Thus, if the policy is the same for two different states, an encoder RNN trained by policy gradients and backpropagation might represent the two … A sequence-to-sequence model for user simulation in spoken dialogue systems … understanding the low-diversity problem of chatbots …
Computer Vision in Control and Optimization of Road Traffic
V Zinchenko, G Kondratenko, I Sidenko… – 2020 IEEE Third …, 2020 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… to educate artificial neural networks is the reverse propagation error (backpropagation) algorithm … of human machine interaction for synthesis of the intelligent dialogue chatbot,” 10th IEEE … [24] P. Kushneryk, Y. Kondratenko, and I. Sidenko, “Intelligent dialogue system based on …
Video Dialog via Multi-Grained Convolutional Self-Attention Context Multi-Modal Networks
M Gu, Z Zhao, W Jin, D Cai, F Wu – IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… While dialog system [41], [42], [43], [44], [45] has been widely explored, visual dialog is still a young task … And recently, Hori et al. [54] propose a model that incorporates technologies for multimodal attention-based video description into an end-to-end dialog system …
Teaching Machines to Converse
J Li – arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.11701, 2020 – arxiv.org
… conventional dialog systems still face a variety of major challenges such as robustness … Specifically, we will discuss three types of dialogue systems: the chit-chat system, the frame-based goal oriented system, and the interactive question-answering (QA) dialogue system …
Artificial Intelligence in Daily Life
RST Lee – 2020 – Springer
… After that, we will study two innovative AI technologies applied to healthcare: (1)health chatbot and (2)robot-assisted surgery (RAS) technology. • Chapter 11—Smart Education This chapter begins with smart education progress in the past decades …
Towards Diversity and Relevance in Neural Natural Language Response Generation
D Handloser – 2020 – isl.anthropomatik.kit.edu
… DPG Deterministic Policy Gradient DSTC7 7th Dialog System Technology Challenges … backpropagation [30] … Open-domain dialogue system, as is covered in this work, do not only solve one speci c task, therefore they are sometimes referred to as non-goal-driven …
Early integration for movement modeling in latent spaces
R Hornung, N Chen, P van der Smagt – The Handbook of Multimodal …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
Page 1. 8Early Integration for Movement Modeling in Latent Spaces Rachel Hornung, Nutan Chen, Patrick van der Smagt 8.1 Introduction In this chapter, we will show how techniques of advanced machine and deep learn- ing …
Efficient Algorithm for Answering Fact-based Queries Using Relational Data Enriched by Context-Based Embeddings
AA Altowayan – 2019 – webpage.pace.edu
… Page 3. Abstract Intelligent conversational systems – such as question answering and chatbots – are becoming a more critical component of today’s AI in areas ranging from health, medicine, and security, to personal assistants, and other domains …
Neural Language Generation: Formulation, Methods, and Evaluation
C Garbacea, Q Mei – arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.15780, 2020 – arxiv.org
… Examples of attributes used for conditioning the generated text are the source sentence in machine translation, the con- versational history in dialogue systems, the input document in text summarization and text simpli- fication, the input question in question answering systems …
Learning to Converse With Latent Actions
T Zhao – 2019 – lti.cs.cmu.edu
… 2.1 Dialog system pipeline for task-oriented dialog systems . . . . . 8 … These unique features make latent action E2E dialog system powerful and practical for creating dialog systems in a variety of usage and domains. 1.2 Thesis Statement …
Transformer-Based Observers in Psychotherapy
T Sunkaraneni – 2020 – cs.utah.edu
… 8 2.4 Backpropagation through time … Conversational agents have been implemented in the field of psychotherapy for a relatively long time, going back to chatbots such as ELIZA … dialogue systems. Pre-trained transformer models are usually trained on dumps of the Page 13. 3 …
A comparative study of word embedding methods for early risk prediction on the Internet
E Fano – 2019 – diva-portal.org
… Another realistic scenario would be to provide support for help lines and hospitals. It would be possible to develop chat bots and other dialogue systems that can determine the severity of a person’s mental health risk based on just a few lines of text …
Improving Top-Down Generation of Natural Language with Hierarchy
DJ Donahue – 2020 – search.proquest.com
… et al., 2019) also attempts to reduce the computation for longer input sequences by segmenting the input into chunks and avoiding backpropagation through previous chunks … they can run increasingly longer sequence lengths without increasing the run time of backpropagation …
AI and IoT in Healthcare
S Singla – Internet of Things Use Cases for the Healthcare …, 2020 – Springer
… neuroscience and material science (with learning calculations dependent on backpropagation), hereditary qualities … Woebot is an AI-sponsored chatbot that enables individuals to examine their … that can play out these underlying analytic evaluations—regularly as chatbots over a …
Condition-Transforming Variational Autoencoder for Generating Diverse Short Text Conversations
YP Ruan, ZH Ling, X Zhu – ACM Transactions on Asian and Low …, 2020 – dl.acm.org
… Natural language conversation, which can be categorized into task-oriented dialog [45] and non- task-oriented chatbot, is among … To guarantee the feasibility of error backpropagation for model training, reparametrization [14] is performed to generate the samples of t. To derive …
InPHYNet: Leveraging attention-based multitask recurrent networks for multi-label physics text classification
V Udandarao, A Agarwal, A Gupta, T Chakraborty – Knowledge-Based Systems – Elsevier
… to-use form that can be utilized to build a question-answering physics chatbot, we prepared … an increasing focus on building end-to-end QA based interactive dialog systems for facilitating … of work has been pivoted on the Student Response Analysis (SRA) part of a dialog system …
Socially-Aware Dialogue System
R Zhao – 2019 – lti.cs.cmu.edu
… However, social chatbots fall short in replicating the interpersonal function of communication … SAPA) This chapter reviews our knowledge-inspired socially-aware dialogue system in a … recognition of conversational strategies in the service of a socially-aware dialog system …
AInix: An open platform for natural language interfaces to shell commands
D Gros – 2019 – cs.utexas.edu
… and be able to support varying interfaces such as voice assistants, chatbots, or video … Such an approach is popular in commercially deployed dialog systems like Amazon Alexa (Kumar et al … This model is trained end-to-end with backpropagation to maximize the likelihood the …
Crsal: Conversational recommender systems with adversarial learning
X Ren, H Yin, T Chen, H Wang, NQV Hung… – ACM Transactions on …, 2020 – dl.acm.org
… 2.2 Task-oriented Dialogue Systems Task-oriented dialogue systems are one important branch in dialogue system research, which aims to help the user finish some specific tasks [96]. Though conversational recommendation …
Proactive Communication in Human-Agent Teaming
EM van Zoelen – 2019 – dspace.library.uu.nl
… In chatbot building tools, these states are usually called ‘intents’ … Because of this, the resulting dialogue system can only be used for very narrow domains and is not flexible in … in many narrow-domain applications, which is why they are still widely used, for example for chatbots …
Improving conditional sequence generative adversarial networks by stepwise evaluation
YL Tuan, HY Lee – IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… To meet the necessary of large dataset for chatbot, reward at every genera- tion step (REGS) is proposed to replace MCTS but with … 8], REGS [2], WGAN-GP [18], [19], TextGAN [20], RankGAN [21] and MaskGAN [9]. To conquer the intractable backpropagation through discrete …
World Knowledge Representation
Z Liu, Y Lin, M Sun – Representation Learning for Natural Language …, 2020 – Springer
… graph representation, which represents entities and relations in knowledge graphs with distributed representations, has been proposed and applied to various real-world artificial intelligence fields including question answering, information retrieval, and dialogue system …
Variational Inference for Text Generation: Improving the Posterior
V Balasubramanian – 2020 – uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
… Dialogue Response Generation: This task is quite common in chatbots and other similar services … The required gradients can be computed by a technique known as backpropagation (Rumelhart et al., 1986) which makes use of the chain rule of derivatives …
Dialog Response Generation Using Adversarially Learned Latent Bag-of-Words
K Khan – 2020 – uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
… An optimiza- tion algorithm such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) along with an automatic differentiation technique called backpropagation is used to train the network. The function being approximated by the neural network is called the loss function …
Syntactically Guided Text Generation
Y Li – 2020 – smartech.gatech.edu
… linguistic representation of information [3] and includes applications such as weather fore- casts generation [4], article or database summarization [5, 6, 7], question answering (QA) [8], dialog generation (chatbot) [9], machine translation (MT) [10], etc. Pioneered by the …
Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management. Healthcare Applications: 10th International Conference, DHM …
VG Duffy – 2019 – books.google.com
… Fernando Fabbrini, André Souza, Guilherme Fidélio, Juliana Machado, and Rachel Sarra Mobile Phone-Based Chatbot for Family … 391 Shota Nakatani, Sachio Saiki, Masahide Nakamura, and Kiyoshi Yasuda Design of Coimagination Support Dialogue System with Pluggable …
Biomedical Text Dependency Parsing with the Neural Turku Parser
T Ngo Minh – 2020 – doria.fi
… tion, it is an essential building block for many other NLP tasks, for example machine translation (Galley and Manning, 2009) and dialogue system (Sugiyama et al., 2013). In … in Hochreiter’s diploma thesis (Hochreiter, 1991). Simply put, when backpropagation …
Offline reinforcement learning: Tutorial, review, and perspectives on open problems
S Levine, A Kumar, G Tucker, J Fu – arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.01643, 2020 – arxiv.org
… Other model-based reinforcement learning methods utilize a learned policy ??(at|st) in addition to the dynamics model, and employ backpropagation through time to optimize the policy with respect to the expected reward objective (Deisenroth and Rasmussen, 2011) …
Suicidal ideation detection in online social content
S Ji – 2020 – researchgate.net
… which was later discontinued because of privacy issues. The latter is a Facebook chatbot based on … I2 Il In hn h2 h1 y d(t, y) E MSE Update of weights Backpropagation (a) Neural network with feature engineering + Title Text Body Statis POS LIWC TF-IDF Topics LIWC POS Statis …