Multi-User Chat Assistant (MUCA): a Framework Using LLMs to Facilitate Group Conversations

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Hauptverfasser: Mao, Manqing, Ting, Paishun, Xiang, Yijian, Xu, Mingyang, Chen, Julia, Lin, Jianzhe
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author Mao, Manqing
Ting, Paishun
Xiang, Yijian
Xu, Mingyang
Chen, Julia
Lin, Jianzhe
author_facet Mao, Manqing
Ting, Paishun
Xiang, Yijian
Xu, Mingyang
Chen, Julia
Lin, Jianzhe
contents Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have provided a new avenue for chatbot development. Most existing research, however, has primarily centered on single-user chatbots that determine "What" to answer. This paper highlights the complexity of multi-user chatbots, introducing the 3W design dimensions: "What" to say, "When" to respond, and "Who" to answer. Additionally, we proposed Multi-User Chat Assistant (MUCA), an LLM-based framework tailored for group discussions. MUCA consists of three main modules: Sub-topic Generator, Dialog Analyzer, and Conversational Strategies Arbitrator. These modules jointly determine suitable response contents, timings, and appropriate addressees. This paper further proposes an LLM-based Multi-User Simulator (MUS) to ease MUCA's optimization, enabling faster simulation of conversations between the chatbot and simulated users, and speeding up MUCA's early development. In goal-oriented conversations with a small to medium number of participants, MUCA demonstrates effectiveness in tasks like chiming in at appropriate timings, generating relevant content, and improving user engagement, as shown by case studies and user studies.
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spellingShingle Multi-User Chat Assistant (MUCA): a Framework Using LLMs to Facilitate Group Conversations
Mao, Manqing
Ting, Paishun
Xiang, Yijian
Xu, Mingyang
Chen, Julia
Lin, Jianzhe
Computation and Language
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have provided a new avenue for chatbot development. Most existing research, however, has primarily centered on single-user chatbots that determine "What" to answer. This paper highlights the complexity of multi-user chatbots, introducing the 3W design dimensions: "What" to say, "When" to respond, and "Who" to answer. Additionally, we proposed Multi-User Chat Assistant (MUCA), an LLM-based framework tailored for group discussions. MUCA consists of three main modules: Sub-topic Generator, Dialog Analyzer, and Conversational Strategies Arbitrator. These modules jointly determine suitable response contents, timings, and appropriate addressees. This paper further proposes an LLM-based Multi-User Simulator (MUS) to ease MUCA's optimization, enabling faster simulation of conversations between the chatbot and simulated users, and speeding up MUCA's early development. In goal-oriented conversations with a small to medium number of participants, MUCA demonstrates effectiveness in tasks like chiming in at appropriate timings, generating relevant content, and improving user engagement, as shown by case studies and user studies.
title Multi-User Chat Assistant (MUCA): a Framework Using LLMs to Facilitate Group Conversations
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04883