Large Language Models as Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracker through Function Calling

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Hauptverfasser: Li, Zekun, Chen, Zhiyu Zoey, Ross, Mike, Huber, Patrick, Moon, Seungwhan, Lin, Zhaojiang, Dong, Xin Luna, Sagar, Adithya, Yan, Xifeng, Crook, Paul A.
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author Li, Zekun
Chen, Zhiyu Zoey
Ross, Mike
Huber, Patrick
Moon, Seungwhan
Lin, Zhaojiang
Dong, Xin Luna
Sagar, Adithya
Yan, Xifeng
Crook, Paul A.
author_facet Li, Zekun
Chen, Zhiyu Zoey
Ross, Mike
Huber, Patrick
Moon, Seungwhan
Lin, Zhaojiang
Dong, Xin Luna
Sagar, Adithya
Yan, Xifeng
Crook, Paul A.
contents Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly prevalent in conversational systems due to their advanced understanding and generative capabilities in general contexts. However, their effectiveness in task-oriented dialogues (TOD), which requires not only response generation but also effective dialogue state tracking (DST) within specific tasks and domains, remains less satisfying. In this work, we propose a novel approach FnCTOD for solving DST with LLMs through function calling. This method improves zero-shot DST, allowing adaptation to diverse domains without extensive data collection or model tuning. Our experimental results demonstrate that our approach achieves exceptional performance with both modestly sized open-source and also proprietary LLMs: with in-context prompting it enables various 7B or 13B parameter models to surpass the previous state-of-the-art (SOTA) achieved by ChatGPT, and improves ChatGPT's performance beating the SOTA by 5.6% average joint goal accuracy (JGA). Individual model results for GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 are boosted by 4.8% and 14%, respectively. We also show that by fine-tuning on a small collection of diverse task-oriented dialogues, we can equip modestly sized models, specifically a 13B parameter LLaMA2-Chat model, with function-calling capabilities and DST performance comparable to ChatGPT while maintaining their chat capabilities. We have made the code publicly available at https://github.com/facebookresearch/FnCTOD
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spellingShingle Large Language Models as Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracker through Function Calling
Li, Zekun
Chen, Zhiyu Zoey
Ross, Mike
Huber, Patrick
Moon, Seungwhan
Lin, Zhaojiang
Dong, Xin Luna
Sagar, Adithya
Yan, Xifeng
Crook, Paul A.
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly prevalent in conversational systems due to their advanced understanding and generative capabilities in general contexts. However, their effectiveness in task-oriented dialogues (TOD), which requires not only response generation but also effective dialogue state tracking (DST) within specific tasks and domains, remains less satisfying. In this work, we propose a novel approach FnCTOD for solving DST with LLMs through function calling. This method improves zero-shot DST, allowing adaptation to diverse domains without extensive data collection or model tuning. Our experimental results demonstrate that our approach achieves exceptional performance with both modestly sized open-source and also proprietary LLMs: with in-context prompting it enables various 7B or 13B parameter models to surpass the previous state-of-the-art (SOTA) achieved by ChatGPT, and improves ChatGPT's performance beating the SOTA by 5.6% average joint goal accuracy (JGA). Individual model results for GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 are boosted by 4.8% and 14%, respectively. We also show that by fine-tuning on a small collection of diverse task-oriented dialogues, we can equip modestly sized models, specifically a 13B parameter LLaMA2-Chat model, with function-calling capabilities and DST performance comparable to ChatGPT while maintaining their chat capabilities. We have made the code publicly available at https://github.com/facebookresearch/FnCTOD
title Large Language Models as Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracker through Function Calling
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10466