Papers › Dialogue Learning with Human Teaching and Feedback in End-to-End Trainable...
Dialogue Learning with Human Teaching and Feedback in End-to-End Trainable Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
Bing Liu, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Pararth Shah, Larry Heck
In this work, we present a hybrid learning method for training task-oriented dialogue systems through online user interactions. Popular methods for learning task-oriented dialogues include applying reinforcement learning with user feedback on supervised pre-training models. Efficiency of such learning method may suffer from the mismatch of dialogue state distribution between offline training and online interactive learning stages. To address this challenge, we propose a hybrid imitation and reinforcement learning method, with which a dialogue agent can effectively learn from its interaction with users by learning from human teaching and feedback. We design a neural network based task-oriented dialogue agent that can be optimized end-to-end with the proposed learning method. Experimental results show that our end-to-end dialogue agent can learn effectively from the mistake it makes via imitation learning from user teaching. Applying reinforcement learning with user feedback after the imitation learning stage further improves the agent's capability in successfully completing a task.
In Syntology Open this paper in Syntology's Atlas, the map of the papers in Syntology's graph and their citations.
Code
Repository list and official/mentioned flags are the archive's, frozen 2025-07-28. Reachability, where shown, is from one Syntology probe window (2026-09-16 to 2026-09-18); repositories not probed show nothing. GitHub stars are not tracked.
Code Syntology ran Syntology
Not run by Syntology. Nothing on this page verifies that the listed code works.
Tasks
Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28
| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dialogue State Tracking | Second dialogue state tracking challenge | Liu et al. | Area | 90 | #6 of 7 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Dialogue State Tracking | Second dialogue state tracking challenge | Liu et al. | Food | 84 | #6 of 7 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Dialogue State Tracking | Second dialogue state tracking challenge | Liu et al. | Joint | 72 | #6 of 7 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Dialogue State Tracking | Second dialogue state tracking challenge | Liu et al. | Price | 92 | #6 of 7 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Dialogue State Tracking | Second dialogue state tracking challenge | Liu et al. | Request | - | #6 of 7 | Archive leaderboard | report |
Ranks are positions in the archive's leaderboards as they stood at the 2025-07-28 snapshot. Results published since then are not among these rows, so a rank here is not a current standing.
Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections