Harnessing the Power of Large Language Models for Empathetic Response Generation: Empirical Investigations and Improvements

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05140v3
• Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 07:05:50 GMT
• Title: Harnessing the Power of Large Language Models for Empathetic Response Generation: Empirical Investigations and Improvements
• Authors: Yushan Qian, Wei-Nan Zhang, Ting Liu
• Abstract summary: This work empirically investigates the performance of large language models (LLMs) in generating empathetic responses. Extensive experiments show that LLMs can significantly benefit from our proposed methods and is able to achieve state-of-the-art performance in both automatic and human evaluations.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Empathetic dialogue is an indispensable part of building harmonious social relationships and contributes to the development of a helpful AI. Previous approaches are mainly based on fine small-scale language models. With the advent of ChatGPT, the application effect of large language models (LLMs) in this field has attracted great attention. This work empirically investigates the performance of LLMs in generating empathetic responses and proposes three improvement methods of semantically similar in-context learning, two-stage interactive generation, and combination with the knowledge base. Extensive experiments show that LLMs can significantly benefit from our proposed methods and is able to achieve state-of-the-art performance in both automatic and human evaluations. Additionally, we explore the possibility of GPT-4 simulating human evaluators.

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