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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Lihong Li, Redmond, WA (US);
Bhuwan Dhingra, New Delhi, IN;
Jianfeng Gao, Woodinville, WA (US);
Xiujun Li, Tainjin, CN;
Yun-Nung Chen, Taipei, TW;
Li Deng, Redmond, WA (US);
Faisal Ahmed, Bothell, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are systems, methods, and techniques by which a processing unit can build an end-to-end dialogue agent model for end-to-end learning of dialogue agents for information access and apply the end-to-end dialogue agent model with soft attention over knowledge base entries to make the dialogue system differentiable. In various examples the processing unit can apply the end-to-end dialogue agent model to a source of input, fill slots for output from the knowledge base entries, induce a posterior distribution over the entities in a knowledge base or induce a posterior distribution of a target of the requesting user over entities from a knowledge base, develop an end-to-end differentiable model of a dialogue agent, use supervised and/or imitation learning to initialize network parameters, calculate a modified version of an episodic algorithm. e.g., the REINFORCE algorithm, for training an end-to-end differentiable model based on user feedback.