Towards LLM-driven Dialogue State Tracking

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14970v1
• Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:15:28 GMT
• Title: Towards LLM-driven Dialogue State Tracking
• Authors: Yujie Feng, Zexin Lu, Bo Liu, Liming Zhan, Xiao-Ming Wu
• Abstract summary: Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT3 and ChatGPT have sparked considerable interest in assessing their efficacy across diverse applications. We present LDST, an LLM-driven Dialogue State Tracking framework based on smaller, open-source foundation models. We find that LDST exhibits remarkable performance improvements in both zero-shot and few-shot setting compared to previous SOTA methods.
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• Abstract: Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is of paramount importance in ensuring accurate tracking of user goals and system actions within task-oriented dialogue systems. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT3 and ChatGPT has sparked considerable interest in assessing their efficacy across diverse applications. In this study, we conduct an initial examination of ChatGPT's capabilities in DST. Our evaluation uncovers the exceptional performance of ChatGPT in this task, offering valuable insights to researchers regarding its capabilities and providing useful directions for designing and enhancing dialogue systems. Despite its impressive performance, ChatGPT has significant limitations including its closed-source nature, request restrictions, raising data privacy concerns, and lacking local deployment capabilities. To address these concerns, we present LDST, an LLM-driven DST framework based on smaller, open-source foundation models. By utilizing a novel domain-slot instruction tuning method, LDST achieves performance on par with ChatGPT. Comprehensive evaluations across three distinct experimental settings, we find that LDST exhibits remarkable performance improvements in both zero-shot and few-shot setting compared to previous SOTA methods. The source code is provided for reproducibility.

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