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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Domain Dialogue Systems

26 Nov 2016arXiv:1611.08675archive 2025-07-28

Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Seunghak Yu, Ashley Williamson, Jacob Carse

Standard deep reinforcement learning methods such as Deep Q-Networks (DQN) for multiple tasks (domains) face scalability problems. We propose a method for multi-domain dialogue policy learning---termed NDQN, and apply it to an information-seeking spoken dialogue system in the domains of restaurants and hotels. Experimental results comparing DQN (baseline) versus NDQN (proposed) using simulations report that our proposed method exhibits better scalability and is promising for optimising the behaviour of multi-domain dialogue systems.

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