AvgOut: A Simple Output-Probability Measure to Eliminate Dull Responses

Understand

Many sequence-to-sequence dialogue models tend to generate safe, uninformative responses.

• There have been various useful efforts on trying to eliminate them.
• However, these approaches either improve decoding algorithms during inference, rely on hand-crafted features, or employ complex models.
• In our work, we build dialogue models that are dynamically aware of what utterances or tokens are dull without any feature-engineering.