Mutual Reinforcement of LLM Dialogue Synthesis and Summarization Capabilities for Few-Shot Dialogue Summarization

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Main Authors: Lu, Yen-Ju, Hu, Ting-Yao, Koppula, Hema Swetha, Pouransari, Hadi, Chang, Jen-Hao Rick, Xia, Yin, Kong, Xiang, Zhu, Qi, Wang, Simon, Tuzel, Oncel, Vemulapalli, Raviteja
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author Lu, Yen-Ju
Hu, Ting-Yao
Koppula, Hema Swetha
Pouransari, Hadi
Chang, Jen-Hao Rick
Xia, Yin
Kong, Xiang
Zhu, Qi
Wang, Simon
Tuzel, Oncel
Vemulapalli, Raviteja
author_facet Lu, Yen-Ju
Hu, Ting-Yao
Koppula, Hema Swetha
Pouransari, Hadi
Chang, Jen-Hao Rick
Xia, Yin
Kong, Xiang
Zhu, Qi
Wang, Simon
Tuzel, Oncel
Vemulapalli, Raviteja
contents In this work, we propose Mutual Reinforcing Data Synthesis (MRDS) within LLMs to improve few-shot dialogue summarization task. Unlike prior methods that require external knowledge, we mutually reinforce the LLMś dialogue synthesis and summarization capabilities, allowing them to complement each other during training and enhance overall performances. The dialogue synthesis capability is enhanced by directed preference optimization with preference scoring from summarization capability. The summarization capability is enhanced by the additional high quality dialogue-summary paired data produced by the dialogue synthesis capability. By leveraging the proposed MRDS mechanism, we elicit the internal knowledge of LLM in the format of synthetic data, and use it to augment the few-shot real training dataset. Empirical results demonstrate that our method improves dialogue summarization, achieving a 1.5% increase in ROUGE scores and a 0.3% improvement in BERT scores in few-shot settings. Furthermore, our method attains the highest average scores in human evaluations, surpassing both the pre-trained models and the baselines fine-tuned solely for summarization tasks.
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spellingShingle Mutual Reinforcement of LLM Dialogue Synthesis and Summarization Capabilities for Few-Shot Dialogue Summarization
Lu, Yen-Ju
Hu, Ting-Yao
Koppula, Hema Swetha
Pouransari, Hadi
Chang, Jen-Hao Rick
Xia, Yin
Kong, Xiang
Zhu, Qi
Wang, Simon
Tuzel, Oncel
Vemulapalli, Raviteja
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
In this work, we propose Mutual Reinforcing Data Synthesis (MRDS) within LLMs to improve few-shot dialogue summarization task. Unlike prior methods that require external knowledge, we mutually reinforce the LLMś dialogue synthesis and summarization capabilities, allowing them to complement each other during training and enhance overall performances. The dialogue synthesis capability is enhanced by directed preference optimization with preference scoring from summarization capability. The summarization capability is enhanced by the additional high quality dialogue-summary paired data produced by the dialogue synthesis capability. By leveraging the proposed MRDS mechanism, we elicit the internal knowledge of LLM in the format of synthetic data, and use it to augment the few-shot real training dataset. Empirical results demonstrate that our method improves dialogue summarization, achieving a 1.5% increase in ROUGE scores and a 0.3% improvement in BERT scores in few-shot settings. Furthermore, our method attains the highest average scores in human evaluations, surpassing both the pre-trained models and the baselines fine-tuned solely for summarization tasks.
title Mutual Reinforcement of LLM Dialogue Synthesis and Summarization Capabilities for Few-Shot Dialogue Summarization
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17328