Paper-Reading-ConvAI

Paper reading list in Conversational AI, mainly including 💬 dialogue systems (agents) and 📝 natural language generation. Contributions are welcome!

• Deep Learning in NLP
• Dialogue Systems (Agents)
  • Survey on Dialogue
  • Conversational LLMs and Benchmarks
  • LLM-based Dialogue Agents
  • Multi-turn Interaction
  • Long-term Dialogue
  • Multimodal Dialogue
    • Situated and Embodied Dialogue
    • Visually-grounded Dialogue
    • Spoken Dialogue
  • Proactive Dialogue
    • Misc. of Proactive Dialogue
    • Target-oriented Dialogue
    • Non-collaborative Dialogue (Persuasion and Negotiation)
  • Personalized Dialogue
    • Character-based Dialogue
    • Personality-aware Dialogue
    • Persona-based Dialogue
  • Emotional Dialogue
    • Emotional Support Dialogue
    • Empathetic Dialogue
  • Tutoring Dialogue
  • Recommendation Dialogue and CRS
  • Knowledge-grounded Dialogue
  • Task-oriented Dialogue
  • Open-domain Dialogue
  • Dialogue Evaluation
  • Dialogue Misc.
• Natural Language Generation
  • Survey on NLG
  • NLG Theories and Techniques
  • Diffusion Models for NLG
  • Controllable Generation
  • Text Planning
  • Decoding Algorithms
  • NLG Evaluation

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Deep Learning in NLP

• iNLP: "Interactive Natural Language Processing". arXiv(2023) [paper] :star::star::star::star:
• Data Augmentation: "A Survey of Data Augmentation Approaches for NLP". ACL-Findings(2021) [paper]
• Prompting: "Pre-train, Prompt, and Predict: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Methods in Natural Language Processing". arXiv(2021) [paper] :star::star::star::star::star:
• NLP World Scope: "Experience Grounds Language". EMNLP(2020) [paper] :star::star::star::star::star:
• Transformer-XL: "Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context". ACL(2019) [paper] [code]
• Transformer: "Attention is All you Need". NeurIPS(2017) [paper] [code-official] [code-tf] [code-py] :star::star::star::star::star:
• VAE: "An Introduction to Variational Autoencoders". arXiv(2019) [paper]
• Survey on Attention: "An Introductory Survey on Attention Mechanisms in NLP Problems". arXiv(2018) [paper] :star::star::star::star::star:
• Additive Attention: "Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate". ICLR(2015) [paper]
• Multiplicative Attention: "Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine Translation". EMNLP(2015) [paper]
• Memory Net: "End-To-End Memory Networks". NeurIPS(2015) [paper]
• Copy Mechanism (PGN): "Get To The Point: Summarization with Pointer-Generator Networks". ACL(2017) [paper] [code] :star::star::star::star::star:
• Copy Mechanism: "Incorporating Copying Mechanism in Sequence-to-Sequence Learning". ACL(2016) [paper]
• ELMo: "Deep contextualized word representations". NAACL(2018) [paper] [code]
• Glove: "GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation". EMNLP(2014) [paper] [code]
• Word2Vec Tutorial: "word2vec Parameter Learning Explained". arXiv(2016) [paper] :star::star::star::star::star:
• Multi-task Learning: "An Overview of Multi-Task Learning in Deep Neural Networks". arXiv(2017) [paper]
• Gradient Descent: "An Overview of Gradient Descent Optimization Algorithms". arXiv(2016) [paper] :star::star::star::star::star:

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Dialogue Systems (Agents)

Survey on Dialogue

• LLM-based Dialogue: "A Survey on Recent Advances in LLM-Based Multi-turn Dialogue Systems". ACM Computing Surveys(2024) [paper]
• Data Generation: "A Survey on Recent Advances in Conversational Data Generation". arXiv(2024) [paper]
• Proactive Dialogue: "A Survey on Proactive Dialogue Systems: Problems, Methods, and Prospects". IJCAI(2023) [paper]
• Responsible Dialogue: "Recent Advances towards Safe, Responsible, and Moral Dialogue Systems: A Survey". arXiv(2023) [paper]
• Negotiation Dialogue: "Let's Negotiate! A Survey of Negotiation Dialogue Systems". arXiv(2022) [paper]
• DL-based Dialogue: "Recent Advances in Deep Learning Based Dialogue Systems: A Systematic Survey". arXiv(2021) [paper] :star::star::star::star:
• Open-domain Dialogue: "Challenges in Building Intelligent Open-domain Dialog Systems". TOIS(2020) [paper]
• Dialogue Systems: "A Survey on Dialogue Systems: Recent Advances and New Frontiers". SIGKDD Explorations(2017) [paper]
• Dialogue Corpora: "A Survey of Available Corpora For Building Data-Driven Dialogue Systems". arXiv(2017) [paper] [data]

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Conversational LLMs and Benchmarks

• Playpen: "Playpen: An Environment for Exploring Learning Through Conversational Interaction". arXiv(2025) [paper] [data]
• ConvBench: "ConvBench: A Multi-Turn Conversation Evaluation Benchmark with Hierarchical Ablation Capability for Large Vision-Language Models". arXiv(2025) [paper] [data]
• MultiChallenge: "MultiChallenge: A Realistic Multi-Turn Conversation Evaluation Benchmark Challenging to Frontier LLMs". arXiv(2025) [paper] [data]
• Parrot: "Parrot: Enhancing Multi-Turn Instruction Following for Large Language Models". ACL(2024) [paper]
• MT-Bench-101: "MT-Bench-101: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Multi-Turn Dialogues". ACL(2024) [paper] [data]
• Clembench: "Clembench: Using Game Play to Evaluate Chat-Optimized Language Models as Conversational Agents". EMNLP(2023) [paper] [data]
• MT-Bench: "Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena". NeurIP(2023) [paper] [data] :star::star::star::star:
• MemoChat: "MemoChat: Tuning LLMs to Use Memos for Consistent Long-Range Open-Domain Conversation". arXiv(2023) [paper]
• Llama 2-Chat: "Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models". Meta(2023) [paper] [code]
• ChatGLM3: "ChatGLM3 Series: Open Bilingual Chat LLMs". Tsinghua(2023) [code]
• ChatGLM2-6B: "ChatGLM2-6B: An Open Bilingual Chat LLM". Tsinghua(2023) [code]
• MPC: "Prompted LLMs as Chatbot Modules for Long Open-domain Conversation". ACL-Findings(2023) [paper] [code]
• MemoryBank-SiliconFriend: "MemoryBank: Enhancing Large Language Models with Long-Term Memory". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• UltraChat: "Enhancing Chat Language Models by Scaling High-quality Instructional Conversations". arXiv(2023) [paper] [data]
• ChatAlpaca: "ChatAlpaca: A Multi-Turn Dialogue Corpus based on Alpaca Instructions". Github(2023) [data]
• Phoenix: "Phoenix: Democratizing ChatGPT across Languages". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• Dolly: "Free Dolly: Introducing the World's First Truly Open Instruction-Tuned LLM". Databricks(2023) [code]
• Baize: "Baize: An Open-Source Chat Model with Parameter-Efficient Tuning on Self-Chat Data". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• Vicuna: "Vicuna: An Open-Source Chatbot Impressing GPT-4 with 90% ChatGPT Quality". LMSYS Org(2023) [Blog] [code]
• Koala: "Koala: A Dialogue Model for Academic Research". UC Berkeley(2023) [Blog] [code]
• BELLE: "BELLE: Be Everyone's Large Language model Engine". LianjiaTech(2023) [code]
• Alpaca: "Alpaca: A Strong, Replicable Instruction-Following Model". Stanford(2023) [Blog] [code] [alpaca-lora]
• ChatGLM-6B: "An Open Bilingual Dialogue Language Model". Tsinghua(2023) [code]
• Open-Assistant: "Open Assistant: Conversational AI for everyone". Github(2023) [project] [code]
• ChatGPT: "ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue". OpenAI(2022) [Blog] :star::star::star::star::star:
• Sparrow: "Improving alignment of dialogue agents via targeted human judgements". arXiv(2022) [paper] [data]
• BlenderBot3: "BlenderBot 3: a deployed conversational agent that continually learns to responsibly engage". arXiv(2022) [paper]
• LaMDA: "LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications". arXiv(2022) [paper]
• GODEL: "GODEL: Large-Scale Pre-Training for Goal-Directed Dialog". arXiv(2022) [paper] [code]
• Anthropic Assistant-v2: "Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback". arXiv(2022) [paper]
• Anthropic Assistant: "A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment". arXiv(2021) [paper]

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LLM-based Dialogue Agents

• PCA: "Controllable Conversations: Planning-Based Dialogue Agent with Large Language Models". arXiv(2024) [paper]
• EduChat: "EduChat: A Large-Scale Language Model-based Chatbot System for Intelligent Education". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• DialOp: "Decision-Oriented Dialogue for Human-AI Collaboration". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:

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Multi-turn Interaction

• TurnWise: "TurnWise: The Gap between Single- and Multi-turn Language Model Capabilities". arXiv(2026) [paper]
• Survey-MT: "A Survey on Multi-Turn Interaction Capabilities of Large Language Models". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• Survey-MT: "Beyond Single-Turn: A Survey on Multi-Turn Interactions with Large Language Models". arXiv(2025) [paper] [data]
• APIGen-MT: "APIGen-MT: Agentic Pipeline for Multi-Turn Data Generation via Simulated Agent-Human Interplay". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• SCOPE: "Broaden your SCOPE! Efficient Multi-turn Conversation Planning for LLMs using Semantic Space". ICLR(2025) [paper] [code]
• Entangled-Instructions: "Can Language Models Follow Multiple Turns of Entangled Instructions?". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• ClarifyMT-Bench: "ClarifyMT-Bench: Benchmarking and Improving Multi-Turn Clarification for Conversational Large Language Models". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• PersonaSim-RL: "Consistently Simulating Human Personas with Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• ConvBench: "ConvBench: A Multi-Turn Conversation Evaluation Benchmark with Hierarchical Ablation Capability for Large Vision-Language Models". NeurIPS(2024) [paper] [data]
• Curiosity-Dial: "Enhancing Personalized Multi-Turn Dialogue with Curiosity Reward". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• AR-Bench: "From Passive to Active Reasoning: Can Large Language Models Ask the Right Questions under Incomplete Information?". arXiv(2025) [paper] [data]
• In-Place Feedback: "In-Place Feedback: A New Paradigm for Guiding LLMs in Multi-Turn Reasoning". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• InftyThink: "InftyThink: Breaking the Length Limits of Long-Context Reasoning in Large Language Models". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• Learn-by-interact: "Learn-by-interact: A Data-Centric Framework for Self-Adaptive Agents in Realistic Environments". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• LLMs-Get-Lost: "LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• MultiChallenge: "MultiChallenge: A Realistic Multi-Turn Conversation Evaluation Benchmark Challenging to Frontier LLMs". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• PARL-MT: "PARL-MT: Learning to Call Functions in Multi-Turn Conversation with Progress Awareness". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• Playpen: "Playpen: An Environment for Exploring Learning Through Conversational Interaction". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• Proactive-T2I-MT: "Proactive Agents for Multi-Turn Text-to-Image Generation Under Uncertainty". arXiv(2025) [paper] [code]
• QuestBench: "QuestBench: Can LLMs ask the right question to acquire information in reasoning tasks?". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• SDPO: "SDPO: Segment-Level Direct Preference Optimization for Social Agents". arXiv(2025) [paper] [code]
• Self-DC: "Self-DC: When to Reason and When to Act? Self Divide-and-Conquer for Compositional Unknown Questions". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• Self-Taught-LCU: "Self-Taught Agentic Long Context Understanding". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• SimulatorArena: "SimulatorArena: Are User Simulators Reliable Proxies for Multi-Turn Evaluation of AI Assistants?". EMNLP(2025) [paper]
• RL-User-Conv: "The Era of Real-World Human Interaction: RL from User Conversations". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• Long-Horizon-Illusion: "The Illusion of Diminishing Returns: Measuring Long Horizon Execution in LLMs". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• Think on your Feet: "Think on your Feet: Adaptive Thinking via Reinforcement Learning for Social Agents". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• CollabEmb-Bench: "Benchmark Real-time Adaptation and Communication Capabilities of Embodied Agent in Collaborative Scenarios". arXiv(2024) [paper]
• DMPO: "Direct Multi-Turn Preference Optimization for Language Agents". EMNLP(2024) [paper]
• Learning to Clarify: "Learning to Clarify: Multi-turn Conversations with Action-Based Contrastive Self-Training". arXiv(2024) [paper]
• MathChat: "MathChat: Benchmarking Mathematical Reasoning and Instruction Following in Multi-Turn Interactions". arXiv(2024) [paper]
• MINT: "MINT: Evaluating LLMs in Multi-turn Interaction with Tools and Language Feedback". ICLR(2024) [paper]
• MMMT-IF: "MMMT-IF: A Challenging Multimodal Multi-Turn Instruction Following Benchmark". arXiv(2024) [paper]
• MT-Bench-101: "MT-Bench-101: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Multi-Turn Dialogues". ACL(2024) [paper] [data]
• MT-Mind2Web: "On the Multi-turn Instruction Following for Conversational Web Agents". arXiv(2024) [paper]
• STaR-GATE: "STaR-GATE: Teaching Language Models to Ask Clarifying Questions". arXiv(2024) [paper]

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Long-term Dialogue

• RMM: "In Prospect and Retrospect: Reflective Memory Management for Long-term Personalized Dialogue Agents". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• ImplexConv: "Toward Multi-Session Personalized Conversation: A Large-Scale Dataset and Hierarchical Tree Framework for Implicit Reasoning". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• LongMemEval: "LongMemEval: Benchmarking Chat Assistants on Long-Term Interactive Memory". ICLR(2025) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• DialSim: "DialSim: A Real-Time Simulator for Evaluating Long-Term Dialogue Understanding of Conversational Agents". arXiv(2024) [paper] [code]
• THEANINE: "THEANINE: Revisiting Memory Management in Long-term Conversations with Timeline-augmented Response Generation". arXiv(2024) [paper]
• LD-Agent: "Hello Again! LLM-powered Personalized Agent for Long-term Dialogue". arXiv(2024) [paper] [code]
• CPD: "Position Debiasing Fine-Tuning for Causal Perception in Long-Term Dialogue". IJCAI(2024) [paper]
• TemporalMemory: "Toward Conversational Agents with Context and Time Sensitive Long-term Memory". arXiv(2024) [paper] [data]
• LoCoMo: "Evaluating Very Long-Term Conversational Memory of LLM Agents". arXiv(2024) [paper] [data] :star::star::star:
• Conversation Chronicles: "Conversation Chronicles: Towards Diverse Temporal and Relational Dynamics in Multi-Session Conversations". EMNLP(2023) [paper] [data]
• GapChat: "Mind the Gap Between Conversations for Improved Long-Term Dialogue Generation". EMNLP-Findings(2023) [paper] [data]
• UniMC: "UniMC: A Unified Framework for Long-Term Memory Conversation via Relevance Representation Learning". arXiv(2023) [paper]
• RS: "Recursively Summarizing Enables Long-Term Dialogue Memory in Large Language Models". arXiv(2023) [paper]
• MSC: "Beyond Goldfish Memory: Long-Term Open-Domain Conversation". ACL(2022) [paper] [data] :star::star::star:

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Multimodal Dialogue

Situated and Embodied Dialogue

• VAssist-Sim: "Bootstrapping Visual Assistant Modeling with Situated Interaction Simulation". COLM(2025) [paper] :star::star::star::star:
• ProAssist: "Proactive Assistant Dialogue Generation from Streaming Egocentric Videos". arXiv(2025) [paper] [code]
• TRACE: "TRACE: Real-Time Multimodal Common Ground Tracking in Situated Collaborative Dialogues". NAACL(2025) [paper] [code]
• SCREEN: "SCREEN: A Benchmark for Situated Conversational Recommendation". ACM MM(2024) [paper] [data]
• SLL: "Large Language Model based Situational Dialogues for Second Language Learning". arXiv(2024) [paper]
• Emb-Plan: "Multimodal Embodied Plan Prediction Augmented with Synthetic Embodied Dialogue". EMNLP(2023) [paper]
• WTaG: "Can Foundation Models Watch, Talk and Guide You Step by Step to Make a Cake?". EMNLP-Findings(2023) [paper] [code]
• SIMMC-VR: "SIMMC-VR: A Task-oriented Multimodal Dialog Dataset with Situated and Immersive VR Streams". ACL(2023) [paper] :star::star::star::star:
• SURE: "Multimodal Recommendation Dialog with Subjective Preference: A New Challenge and Benchmark". ACL(2023) [paper] [data]
• SUGAR: "A Textual Dataset for Situated Proactive Response Selection". ACL(2023) [paper] [data]
• MindDial: "MindDial: Belief Dynamics Tracking with Theory-of-Mind Modeling for Situated Neural Dialogue Generation". arXiv(2023) [paper]
• HoloAssist: "HoloAssist: an Egocentric Human Interaction Dataset for Interactive AI Assistants in the Real World". ICCV(2023) [paper] [data] :star::star::star::star:
• Collab: "Towards Collaborative Plan Acquisition through Theory of Mind Modeling in Situated Dialogue". IJCAI(2023) [paper] [code]
• Alexa Arena: "Alexa Arena: A User-Centric Interactive Platform for Embodied AI". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• SEAGULL: "SEAGULL: An Embodied Agent for Instruction Following through Situated Dialog". Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge(2023) [paper]
• SitCoM-DETR: "Which One Are You Referring To? Multimodal Object Identification in Situated Dialogue". EACL-SRW(2023) [paper] [code]
• MLR: "Improving Situated Conversational Agents with Step-by-Step Multi-modal Logic Reasoning". DSTC11(2023) [paper]
• SimpleMTOD: "SimpleMTOD: A Simple Language Model for Multimodal Task-Oriented Dialogue with Symbolic Scene Representation". arXiv(2023) [paper]
• SPRING: "SPRING: Situated Conversation Agent Pretrained with Multimodal Questions from Incremental Layout Graph". AAAI(2023) [paper] [code]
• DOROTHIE: "DOROTHIE: Spoken Dialogue for Handling Unexpected Situations in Interactive Autonomous Driving Agents". EMNLP-Findings(2022) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• LIGHT-curriculum: "Situated Dialogue Learning through Procedural Environment Generation". ACL(2022) [paper]
• DANLI: "DANLI: Deliberative Agent for Following Natural Language Instructions". EMNLP(2022) [paper] [code]
• PRS: "Learning to Mediate Disparities Towards Pragmatic Communication". ACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• Joint-model: "Learning to Embed Multi-Modal Contexts for Situated Conversational Agents". NAACL-Findings(2022) [paper] [code]
• TEACh_FILM: "Don't Copy the Teacher: Data and Model Challenges in Embodied Dialogue". EMNLP(2022) [paper] [code]
• TEACh: "TEACh: Task-driven Embodied Agents that Chat". AAAI(2022) [paper] [data]
• MindCraft: "MindCraft: Theory of Mind Modeling for Situated Dialogue in Collaborative Tasks". EMNLP(2021) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• Multimodal-model: "Multimodal Interactions Using Pretrained Unimodal Models for SIMMC 2.0". DSTC10(2022) [paper] [code]
• SIMMC 2.0: "SIMMC 2.0: A Task-oriented Dialog Dataset for Immersive Multimodal Conversations" EMNLP(2021) [paper] [code] :star::star::star::star:
• MM-DST: "Multi-Task Learning for Situated Multi-Domain End-to-End Dialogue Systems". arXiv(2021) [paper]
• SIMMC: "Situated and Interactive Multimodal Conversations". COLING(2020) [paper] [code]
• Minecraft-BAP: "Learning to execute instructions in a Minecraft dialogue". ACL(2020) [paper] [code]
• CerealBar: "Executing Instructions in Situated Collaborative Interactions". EMNLP(2019) [paper] [code]
• Minecraft Dialogue: "Collaborative Dialogue in Minecraft". ACL(2019) [paper] [code]
• CLG: "Collaborative Language Grounding Toward Situated Human‐Robot Dialogue". AI Magazine(2016) [paper] :star::star::star::star:
• SHRD: "Back to the Blocks World: Learning New Actions through Situated Human-Robot Dialogue". SIGDIAL(2014) [paper]

Visually-grounded Dialogue

• DiagNote: "Taking Notes Brings Focus? Towards Multi-Turn Multimodal Dialogue Learning". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• TIGER: "TIGER: A Unified Generative Model Framework for Multimodal Dialogue Response Generation". COLING(2024) [paper] [code]
• BI-MDRG: "BI-MDRG: Bridging Image History in Multimodal Dialogue Response Generation". ECCV(2024) [paper] [code]
• DialogCC: "DialogCC: An Automated Pipeline for Creating High-Quality Multi-Modal Dialogue Dataset". NAACL(2024) [paper] [data]
• VLAW-MDM: "A Framework for Vision-Language Warm-up Tasks in Multimodal Dialogue Models". EMNLP(2023) [paper] [code]
• VDialogUE: "VDialogUE: A Unified Evaluation Benchmark for Visually-grounded Dialogue". arXiv(2023) [paper]
• TextBind: "TextBind: Multi-turn Interleaved Multimodal Instruction-following in the Wild". arXiv(2023) [paper] [data]
• VSTAR: "VSTAR: A Video-grounded Dialogue Dataset for Situated Semantic Understanding with Scene and Topic Transitions". ACL(2023) [paper] [data]
• ComSet: "Multimodal Persona Based Generation of Comic Dialogs". ACL(2023) [paper] [code]
• MPCHAT: "MPCHAT: Towards Multimodal Persona-Grounded Conversation". ACL(2023) [paper] [code]
• PaCE: "PaCE: Unified Multi-modal Dialogue Pre-training with Progressive and Compositional Experts". ACL(2023) [paper] [code]
• MMDialog: "MMDialog: A Large-scale Multi-turn Dialogue Dataset Towards Multi-modal Open-domain Conversation". ACL(2023) [paper] [data] :star::star::star:
• MDS-S2: "Dual Semantic Knowledge Composed Multimodal Dialog Systems". SIGIR(2023) [paper]
• TikTalk: "TikTalk: A Multi-Modal Dialogue Dataset for Real-World Chitchat". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• CHAMPAGNE: "CHAMPAGNE: Learning Real-world Conversation from Large-Scale Web Videos". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• MMChat: "MMChat: Multi-Modal Chat Dataset on Social Media". LREC(2022) [paper] [code]
• CRVD: "Collaborative Reasoning on Multi-Modal Semantic Graphs for Video-Grounded Dialogue Generation". EMNLP-Findings(2022) [paper]
• M3ED: "M3ED: Multi-modal Multi-scene Multi-label Emotional Dialogue Database". ACL(2022) [paper] [data]
• MDRG: "Multimodal Dialogue Response Generation". ACL(2022) [paper]
• UniTranSeR: "UniTranSeR: A Unified Transformer Semantic Representation Framework for Multimodal Task-Oriented Dialog System". ACL(2022) [paper]
• PhotoChat: "PhotoChat: A Human-Human Dialogue Dataset With Photo Sharing Behavior For Joint Image-Text Modeling". ACL(2021) [paper] [data]
• Multi-Modal Dialogue: "Constructing Multi-Modal Dialogue Dataset by Replacing Text with Semantically Relevant Images". ACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• OpenViDial 2.0: "OpenViDial 2.0: A Larger-Scale, Open-Domain Dialogue Generation Dataset with Visual Contexts". arXiv(2021) [paper] [data]
• MMConv: "MMConv: An Environment for Multimodal Conversational Search across Multiple Domains". SIGIR(2021) [paper] [data]
• Image Chat: "Image Chat: Engaging Grounded Conversations". ACL(2020) [paper] [data]
• MTN: "Multimodal Transformer Networks for End-to-End Video-Grounded Dialogue Systems". ACL(2019) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• MELD: "MELD: A Multimodal Multi-Party Dataset for Emotion Recognition in Conversations". ACL(2019) [paper] [data]
• CLEVR-Dialog: "CLEVR-Dialog: A Diagnostic Dataset for Multi-Round Reasoning in Visual Dialog". NAACL(2019) [paper] [data]
• VisDial-RL: "Improving Generative Visual Dialog by Answering Diverse Questions". EMNLP(2019) [paper] [code]
• MMD: "Towards Building Large Scale Multimodal Domain-Aware Conversation Systems". AAAI(2018) [paper] [code]
• Talk the Walk: "Talk the Walk: Navigating New York City through Grounded Dialogue". arXiv(2018) [paper] [code]
• VisDial: "Visual Dialog". CVPR(2017) [paper] [code]

Spoken Dialogue

• SyncLLM: "Beyond Turn-Based Interfaces: Synchronous LLMs as Full-Duplex Dialogue Agents". EMNLP(2024) [paper] [project]
• MultiDialog: "Let's Go Real Talk: Spoken Dialogue Model for Face-to-Face Conversation". ACL(2024) [paper] [data]
• OpenOmni: "OpenOmni: A Collaborative Open Source Tool for Building Future-Ready Multimodal Conversational Agents". arxiv(2024) [paper] [code]

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Proactive Dialogue

Misc. of Proactive Dialogue

• PRINCIPLES: "PRINCIPLES: Synthetic Strategy Memory for Proactive Dialogue Agents". EMNLP-Findings(2025) [paper] [code]
• DPDP: "Planning Like Human: A Dual-process Framework for Dialogue Planning". arXiv(2024) [paper] [code]
• PCA: "Towards Human-centered Proactive Conversational Agents". SIGIR(2024) [paper]
• ProCoT: "Prompting and Evaluating Large Language Models for Proactive Dialogues: Clarification, Target-guided, and Non-collaboration". EMNLP-Findings(2023) [paper] [code]
• Tutorial: "Goal Awareness for Conversational AI: Proactivity, Non-collaborativity, and Beyond". ACL(2023) [paper]

Target-oriented Dialogue

• DiffTOD: "Planning with Diffusion Models for Target-Oriented Dialogue Systems". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• TopDial: "Target-oriented Proactive Dialogue Systems with Personalization: Problem Formulation and Dataset Curation". EMNLP(2023) [paper] [code]
• RTCP: "Reinforced Target-driven Conversational Promotion". EMNLP(2023) [paper] [code]
• MTGP: "MTGP: Multi-turn Target-oriented Dialogue Guided by Generative Global Path with Flexible Turns". ACL-Findings(2023) [paper] [code]
• COLOR: "Dialogue Planning via Brownian Bridge Stochastic Process for Goal-directed Proactive Dialogue". ACL-Findings(2023) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• TopKG: "TopKG: Target-oriented Dialog via Global Planning on Knowledge Graph". COLING(2022) [paper] [code]
• TGCP: "Target-Guided Open-Domain Conversation Planning". COLING(2022) [paper] [code]
• FOP: "Long-term Control for Dialogue Generation: Methods and Evaluation". NAACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• CODA: "Target-Guided Dialogue Response Generation Using Commonsense and Data Augmentation". NAACL-Findings(2022) [paper] [code]
• OTTers: "OTTers: One-turn Topic Transitions for Open-Domain Dialogue". ACL(2021) [paper] [data]
• CG-nAR: "Thinking Clearly, Talking Fast: Concept-Guided Non-Autoregressive Generation for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems". EMNLP(2021) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• DuConv: "Proactive Human-Machine Conversation with Explicit Conversation Goals". ACL(2019) [paper] [code]
• CKC: "Keyword-Guided Neural Conversational Model". AAAI(2021) [paper] [code]
• KnowHRL: "Knowledge Graph Grounded Goal Planning for Open-Domain Conversation Generation". AAAI(2020) [paper]
• DKRN: "Dynamic Knowledge Routing Network For Target-Guided Open-Domain Conversation". AAAI(2020) [paper] [code]
• TGConv: "Target-Guided Open-Domain Conversation". ACL(2019) [paper] [code]

Non-collaborative Dialogue (Persuasion and Negotiation)

• TRIP: "Strength Lies in Differences! Towards Effective Non-collaborative Dialogues via Tailored Strategy Planning". arXiv(2024) [paper]
• INA: "INA: An Integrative Approach for Enhancing Negotiation Strategies with Reward-Based Dialogue System". EMNLP(2023) [paper] [data]
• I-Pro: "Interacting with Non-Cooperative User: A New Paradigm for Proactive Dialogue Policy". SIGIR(2022) [paper]
• PAAD: "Towards a Progression-Aware Autonomous Dialogue Agent". NAACL(2022) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• PersRFI: "Refine and Imitate: Reducing Repetition and Inconsistency in Persuasion Dialogues via Reinforcement Learning and Human Demonstration". EMNLP-Findings(2021) [paper] [code]
• ResPer: "RESPER: Computationally Modelling Resisting Strategies in Persuasive Conversations". EACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• ARDM: "Alternating Recurrent Dialog Model with Large-scale Pre-trained Language Models". EACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• DialoGraph: "DialoGraph: Incorporating Interpretable Strategy-Graph Networks into Negotiation Dialogues". ICLR(2021) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• NegotiationToM: "Improving Dialog Systems for Negotiation with Personality Modeling". ACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• FeHED: "Augmenting Non-Collaborative Dialog Systems with Explicit Semantic and Strategic Dialog History". ICLR(2020) [paper] [code]
• CTX-PSA: "Learning to Plan and Realize Separately for Open-Ended Dialogue Systems". EMNLP-Findings(2020) [paper] [code]
• Negotiation-Coach: "A Dynamic Strategy Coach for Effective Negotiation". SIGDIAL(2019) [paper] [code]
• PersuasionForGood: "Persuasion for Good: Towards a Personalized Persuasive Dialogue System for Social Good". ACL(2019) [paper] [data]
• CraigslistBargain: "Decoupling Strategy and Generation in Negotiation Dialogues". EMNLP(2018) [paper] [data]

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Personalized Dialogue

Character-based Dialogue

• LLM-Werewolf: "Exploring Large Language Models for Communication Games: An Empirical Study on Werewolf". arXiv(2023) [paper]
• ChatHaruhi: "ChatHaruhi: Reviving Anime Character in Reality via Large Language Model". arXiv(2023) [report] [code]
• DPCD: "Hi Sheldon! Creating Deep Personalized Characters from TV Shows". arXiv(2023) [paper] [data]
• Cornell-Rich: "Personalised Language Modelling of Screen Characters Using Rich Metadata Annotations". arXiv(2023) [paper] [data]
• KNUDGE: "Ontologically Faithful Generation of Non-Player Character Dialogues". arXic(2022) [paper]
• HPD: "Large Language Models Meet Harry Potter: A Bilingual Dataset for Aligning Dialogue Agents with Characters". arXiv(2022) [paper] [data]
• DialStory: "A Benchmark for Understanding and Generating Dialogue between Characters in Stories". arXiv(2022) [paper]
• CareCall: "Building a Role Specified Open-Domain Dialogue System Leveraging Large-Scale Language Models". NAACL(2022) [paper] [data]
• PDP: "Meet Your Favorite Character: Open-domain Chatbot Mimicking Fictional Characters with only a Few Utterances". NAACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• RPA: "Am I Me or You? State-of-the-Art Dialogue Models Cannot Maintain an Identity". NAACL-Findings(2022) [paper]
• CharacterChat: "CharacterChat: Supporting the Creation of Fictional Characters through Conversation and Progressive Manifestation with a Chatbot". ACM C&C(2021) [paper]
• ALOHA: "ALOHA: Artificial Learning of Human Attributes for Dialogue Agents". AAAI(2020) [paper] [code]
• LIGHT: "Learning to Speak and Act in a Fantasy Text Adventure Game". EMNLP(2019) [paper] [data] :star::star::star:

Personality-aware Dialogue

• MBTI-User: "Exploring Personality-Aware Interactions in Salesperson Dialogue Agents". IWSDS(2025) [paper] [code]
• UBPL: "Tailoring Personality Traits in Large Language Models via Unsupervisedly-Built Personalized Lexicons". arXiv(2023) [paper]
• CharacterChat: "CharacterChat: Learning towards Conversational AI with Personalized Social Support". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• ChatGPT-MBTI: "Can ChatGPT Assess Human Personalities? A General Evaluation Framework". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• Prompted Personality: "Controlling Personality Style in Dialogue with Zero-Shot Prompt-Based Learning". IWSDS(2023) [paper]
• CPED: "CPED: A Large-Scale Chinese Personalized and Emotional Dialogue Dataset for Conversational AI". arXiv(2022) [paper] [data] :star::star::star:
• PELD: "Automatically Select Emotion for Response via Personality-affected Emotion Transition". ACL-Findings(2021) [paper] [data]
• FriendsPersona: "Automatic Text-based Personality Recognition on Monologues and Multiparty Dialogues Using Attentive Networks and Contextual Embeddings". AAAI-Student Abstract(2020) [paper] [data]
• APR: "Identifying Personality Traits Using Overlap Dynamics in Multiparty Dialogue". INTERSPEECH(2019) [paper]
• PersonalDilaog: "Personalized Dialogue Generation with Diversified Traits". arXiv(2019) [paper] [data]
• PersonageNLG: "Controlling Personality-Based Stylistic Variation with Neural Natural Language Generators". SIGDIAL(2018) [paper] [data]

Persona-based Dialogue

• PersonaMem: "Know Me, Respond to Me: Benchmarking LLMs for Dynamic User Profiling and Personalized Responses at Scale". arXiv (2025) [paper] [data]
• MTPChat: "MTPChat: A Multimodal Time-Aware Persona Dataset for Conversational Agents". NAACL-Findings(2025) [paper]
• ComperDial: "ComperDial: Commonsense Persona-grounded Dialogue Dataset and Benchmark". arXiv(2024) [paper]
• IDL: ""In Dialogues We Learn": Towards Personalized Dialogue Without Pre-defined Profiles through In-Dialogue Learning". arXiv(2024) [paper]
• DialogICL: "Crafting a Good Prompt or Providing Exemplary Dialogues? A Study of In-Context Learning for Persona-based Dialogue Generation". arXiv(2024) [paper]
• VaRMI: "Building Persona Consistent Dialogue Agents with Offline Reinforcement Learning". EMNLP(2023) [paper] [code]
• OPELA: "When Crowd Meets Persona: Creating a Large-Scale Open-Domain Persona Dialogue Corpus". arXiv(2023) [paper] [data]
• ORIG: "Towards Robust Personalized Dialogue Generation via Order-Insensitive Representation Regularization". ACL-Findings(2023) [paper] [code]
• CLV: "Enhancing Personalized Dialogue Generation with Contrastive Latent Variables: Combining Sparse and Dense Persona". ACL(2023) [paper] [code]
• SimOAP: "SimOAP: Improve Coherence and Consistency in Persona-based Dialogue Generation via Over-sampling and Post-evaluation". ACL(2023) [paper] [code]
• LMEDR: "Learning to Memorize Entailment and Discourse Relations for Persona-Consistent Dialogues". AAAI(2023) [paper] [code]
• Retrieval-to-Prediction: "Improving Personality Consistency in Conversation by Persona Extending". CIKM(2022) [paper] [code]
• Implicit-Persona: "A Personalized Dialogue Generator with Implicit User Persona Detection". COLING(2022) [paper]
• CareCallMemory: "Keep Me Updated! Memory Management in Long-term Conversations". EMNLP-Findings(2022) [paper] [data]
• PersonaDefense: "You Don't Know My Favorite Color: Preventing Dialogue Representations from Revealing Speakers' Private Personas". NAACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• Prompt-Tuning: "Building a Personalized Dialogue System with Prompt-Tuning". NAACL-SRW(2022) [paper]
• DuLeMon: "Long Time No See! Open-Domain Conversation with Long-Term Persona Memory". ACL-Findings(2022) [paper] [data] :star::star::star:
• INFO: "You Truly Understand What I Need: Intellectual and Friendly Dialogue Agents grounding Knowledge and Persona". EMNLP-Findings(2022) [paper] [code]
• FoCus: "Call for Customized Conversation: Customized Conversation Grounding Persona and Knowledge". AAAI(2022) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• MSP: "Less is More: Learning to Refine Dialogue History for Personalized Dialogue Generation". NAACL(2022) [paper]
• GME: "Transferable Persona-Grounded Dialogues via Grounded Minimal Edits". EMNLP(2021) [paper] [code]
• BoB: "BoB: BERT Over BERT for Training Persona-based Dialogue Models from Limited Personalized Data". ACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• PABST: "Unsupervised Enrichment of Persona-grounded Dialog with Background Stories". ACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• DHAP: "One Chatbot Per Person: Creating Personalized Chatbots based on Implicit User Profiles". SIGIR(2021) [paper]
• Pchatbot: "Pchatbot: A Large-Scale Dataset for Personalized Chatbot". SIGIR(2021) [paper] [data] :star::star::star:
• COMPAC: "Like hiking? You probably enjoy nature: Persona-grounded Dialog with Commonsense Expansions". EMNLP(2020) [paper] [code]
• pragmatic-consistency: "Will I Sound Like Me? Improving Persona Consistency in Dialogues through Pragmatic Self-Consciousness". EMNLP(2020) [paper] [code] :star::star::star::star:
• XPersona: "XPersona: Evaluating Multilingual Personalized Chatbot". arXiv(2020) [paper] [data]
• KvPI: "Profile Consistency Identification for Open-domain Dialogue Agents". EMNLP(2020) [paper] [code]
• GDR: "Generate, Delete and Rewrite: A Three-Stage Framework for Improving Persona Consistency of Dialogue Generation". ACL(2020) [paper]
• P^2Bot: "You Impress Me: Dialogue Generation via Mutual Persona Perception". ACL(2020) [paper] [code]
• RCDG: "Generating Persona Consistent Dialogues by Exploiting Natural Language Inference". AAAI(2020) [paper] [code]
• Persona-sparse: "A Pre-training Based Personalized Dialogue Generation Model with Persona-sparse Data". AAAI(2020) [paper]
• PersonaWAE: "Modeling Personalization in Continuous Space for Response Generation via Augmented Wasserstein Autoencoders". EMNLP(2019) [paper]
• PAML: "Personalizing Dialogue Agents via Meta-Learning". ACL(2019) [paper] [code]
• PersonaChat: "Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?" ACL(2018) [paper] [data] :star::star::star:
• PCCM: "Assigning Personality/Profile to a Chatting Machine for Coherent Conversation Generation". IJCAI(2018) [paper]

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Emotional Dialogue

Emotional Support Dialogue

• ESCoT: "ESCoT: Towards Interpretable Emotional Support Dialogue Systems". ACL(2024) [paper] [code]
• Muffin: "Muffin: Mitigating Unhelpfulness in Emotional Support Conversations with Multifaceted AI Feedback". ACL Findings(2024) [paper] [code]
• DDRCU: "Dynamic Demonstration Retrieval and Cognitive Understanding for Emotional Support Conversation". SIGIR(2024) [paper] [code]
• KEMI: "Knowledge-enhanced Mixed-initiative Dialogue System for Emotional Support Conversations". ACL(2023) [paper] [code] :star::star::star::star:
• CSConv: "A Cognitive Stimulation Dialogue System with Multi-source Knowledge Fusion for Elders with Cognitive Impairment". ACL(2023) [paper] [code]
• AugESC: "AugESC: Dialogue Augmentation with Large Language Models for Emotional Support Conversation". ACL-Findings(2023) [paper]
• TransESC: "TransESC: Smoothing Emotional Support Conversation via Turn-Level State Transition". ACL-Findings(2023) [paper] [code]
• PAL: "PAL: Persona-Augmented Emotional Support Conversation Generation". ACL-Findings(2023) [paper] [code]
• MultiESC: "Improving Multi-turn Emotional Support Dialogue Generation with Lookahead Strategy Planning". EMNLP(2022) [paper] [code] :star::star::star::star:
• MISC: "MISC: A MIxed Strategy-Aware Model Integrating COMET for Emotional Support Conversation". ACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• C3KG: "C3KG: A Chinese Commonsense Conversation Knowledge Graph". ACL-Findings(2022) [paper] [data]
• GLHG: "Control Globally, Understand Locally: A Global-to-Local Hierarchical Graph Network for Emotional Support Conversation". IJCAI(2022) [paper]
• ESConv: "Towards Emotional Support Dialog Systems". ACL(2021) [paper] [data] :star::star::star::star:

Empathetic Dialogue

• PerceptiveAgent: "Talk With Human-like Agents: Empathetic Dialogue Through Perceptible Acoustic Reception and Reaction". ACL(2024) [paper] [code]
• E-CORE: "E-CORE: Emotion Correlation Enhanced Empathetic Dialogue Generation" EMNLP(2023) [paper]
• EmpSOA: "Don't Lose Yourself! Empathetic Response Generation via Explicit Self-Other Awareness". ACL-Findings(2023) [paper] [code]
• CASE: "CASE: Aligning Coarse-to-Fine Cognition and Affection for Empathetic Response Generation". ACL(2023) [paper] [code]
• CARE: "CARE: Causality Reasoning for Empathetic Responses by Conditional Graph Generation". EMNLP-Findings(2022) [paper] [code]
• EmpGPT-3: "Does GPT-3 Generate Empathetic Dialogues? A Novel In-Context Example Selection Method and Automatic Evaluation Metric for Empathetic Dialogue Generation". COLING(2022) [paper] [code]
• PosEmoDial: "Towards Multi-Turn Empathetic Dialogs with Positive Emotion Elicitation". arXiV(2022) [paper]
• CEM: "CEM: Commonsense-aware Empathetic Response Generation". AAAI(2022) [paper] [code]
• GEE: "Perspective-taking and Pragmatics for Generating Empathetic Responses Focused on Emotion Causes". EMNLP(2021) [paper] [code]
• RecEC: "Improving Empathetic Response Generation by Recognizing Emotion Cause in Conversations". EMNLP-Findings(2021) [paper] [code]
• CoMAE: "CoMAE: A Multi-factor Hierarchical Framework for Empathetic Response Generation". ACL-Findings(2021) [paper] [code]
• CARE: "CARE: Commonsense-Aware Emotional Response Generation with Latent Concepts". AAAI(2021) [paper] [code]
• EmpDG: "EmpDG: Multi-resolution Interactive Empathetic Dialogue Generation". COLING(2020) [paper] [code]
• MIME: "MIME: MIMicking Emotions for Empathetic Response Generation". EMNLP(2020) [paper] [code]
• PEC: "Towards Persona-Based Empathetic Conversational Models". EMNLP(2020) [paper] [code]
• MoEL: "MoEL: Mixture of Empathetic Listeners". EMNLP(2019) [paper] [code]
• EmpatheticDialogues: "Towards Empathetic Open-domain Conversation Models: A New Benchmark and Dataset". ACL(2019) [paper] [data] :star::star::star:
• EmoDS: "Generating Responses with a Specific Emotion in Dialog". ACL(2019) [paper]
• MojiTalk: "MojiTalk: Generating Emotional Responses at Scale". ACL(2018) [paper]
• ECM: "Emotional Chatting Machine: Emotional Conversation Generation with Internal and External Memory". AAAI(2018) [paper] [code]

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Tutoring Dialogue

• DeepTutor: "DeepTutor: Towards Agentic Personalized Tutoring". arXiv(2026) [paper]
• DAKT: "Interpretable Difficulty-Aware Knowledge Tracing in Tutor-Student Dialogues". arXiv(2026) [paper]
• KMP-Dialogue: "From Solver to Tutor: Evaluating the Pedagogical Intelligence of LLMs with KMP-Bench". AAAI(2026) [paper]
• PIIvot: "PIIvot: A Lightweight NLP Anonymization Framework for Question-Anchored Tutoring Dialogues". EMNLP(2025) [paper] [code]
• TutorBench: "TutorBench: A Benchmark To Assess Tutoring Capabilities Of Large Language Models". arXiv(2025) [paper] [data]
• TRAVER: "Training Turn-by-Turn Verifiers for Dialogue Tutoring Agents: The Curious Case of LLMs as Your Coding Tutors". ACL-Findings(2025) [paper] [code]
• EducationQ: "EducationQ: Evaluating LLMs' Teaching Capabilities Through Multi-Agent Dialogue Framework". ACL(2025) [paper] [code]
• Tutorbot-DPO: "Training LLM-based Tutors to Improve Student Learning Outcomes in Dialogues". arXiv(2025) [paper] [code]
• Dialogue-KT: "Exploring Knowledge Tracing in Tutor-Student Dialogues". arXiv(2025) [paper] [code]
• BF-TC: "Personality-aware Student Simulation for Conversational Intelligent Tutoring Systems. EMNLP(2024) [paper]
• TreeInstruct: "Instruct, Not Assist: LLM-based Multi-Turn Planning and Hierarchical Questioning for Socratic Code Debugging". EMNLP-Findings(2024) [paper] [code]
• PAI: "Towards Goal-oriented Intelligent Tutoring Systems in Online Education". arXiv(2023) [paper]
• EduChat: "EduChat: A Large-Scale Language Model-based Chatbot System for Intelligent Education". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• MathDial: "MathDial: A Dialogue Tutoring Dataset with Rich Pedagogical Properties Grounded in Math Reasoning Problems". EMNLP-Findings(2023) [paper] [data]
• Dialog Tutoring: "Opportunities and Challenges in Neural Dialog Tutoring". EACL(2023) [paper]

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Recommendation Dialogue and CRS

• TCP-Dial: "Follow Me: Conversation Planning for Target-driven Recommendation Dialogue Systems". arXiv(2022) [paper] [code]
• KERS: "KERS: A Knowledge-Enhanced Framework for Recommendation Dialog Systems with Multiple Subgoals". EMNLP-Findings(2021) [paper] [code]
• DuRecDial2.0: "DuRecDial 2.0: A Bilingual Parallel Corpus for Conversational Recommendation". EMNLP(2021) [paper] [code]
• DuRecDial: "Towards Conversational Recommendation over Multi-Type Dialogs". ACL(2020) [paper] [code] :star::star::star::star:
• TG-ReDial: "Towards Topic-Guided Conversational Recommender System". COLING(2020) [paper] [code]
• INSPIRED: "INSPIRED: Toward Sociable Recommendation Dialog Systems". EMNLP(2020) [paper] [data]
• GoRecDial: "Recommendation as a Communication Game: Self-Supervised Bot-Play for Goal-oriented Dialogue". EMNLP(2019) [paper] [code]
• CRS-Survey: "A Survey on Conversational Recommender Systems". ACM Computing Surveys(2021) [paper]
• CRS-Survey: "Advances and Challenges in Conversational Recommender Systems: A Survey ". arXiv(2021) [paper]
• CRSLab: "CRSLab: An Open-Source Toolkit for Building Conversational Recommender System". arXiv(2021) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• MESE: "Improving Conversational Recommendation Systems' Quality with Context-Aware Item Meta Information". NAACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• C2-CRS: "C2-CRS: Coarse-to-Fine Contrastive Learning for Conversational Recommender System". WSDM(2022) [paper] [code]
• BotPlay: "Self-Supervised Bot Play for Conversational Recommendation with Justifications". arXiv(2021) [paper]
• RID: "Finetuning Large-Scale Pre-trained Language Models for Conversational Recommendation with Knowledge Graph". arXiv(2021) [paper] [code]
• CRFR: "CRFR: Improving Conversational Recommender Systems via Flexible Fragments Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs". EMNLP(2021) [paper]
• NTRD: "Learning Neural Templates for Recommender Dialogue System". EMNLP(2021) [paper] [code]
• CR-Walker: "CR-Walker: Tree-Structured Graph Reasoning and Dialog Acts for Conversational Recommendation". EMNLP(2021) [paper] [code] :star::star::star::star:
• RevCore: "RevCore: Review-augmented Conversational Recommendation". ACL-Findings(2021) [paper] [code]
• KECRS: "KECRS: Towards Knowledge-Enriched Conversational Recommendation System". arXiv(2021) [paper]
• FPAN: "Adapting User Preference to Online Feedback in Multi-round Conversational Recommendation". WSDM(2021) [paper] [code]
• UNICORN: "Unified Conversational Recommendation Policy Learning via Graph-based Reinforcement Learning". SIGIR(2021) [paper] [code]
• KGSF: "Improving Conversational Recommender Systems via Knowledge Graph based Semantic Fusion". KDD(2020) [paper] [code]
• CPR: "Interactive Path Reasoning on Graph for Conversational Recommendation". KDD(2020) [paper] [code]
• EAR: "Estimation-Action-Reflection: Towards Deep Interaction Between Conversational and Recommender Systems". WSDM(2020) [paper] [code]
• KBRD: "Towards Knowledge-Based Recommender Dialog System". EMNLP(2019) [paper] [code]
• ReDial: "Towards Deep Conversational Recommendations". NeurIPS(2018) [paper] [data]

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Knowledge-grounded Dialogue

• DOCTOR: "Dialogue Chain-of-Thought Distillation for Commonsense-aware Conversational Agents". EMNLP(2023) [paper] [code] [demo] :star::star::star::star:
• GATE: "Well Begun is Half Done: Generator-agnostic Knowledge Pre-Selection for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue". EMNLP(2023) [paper] [code]
• CONNER: "Beyond Factuality: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Large Language Models as Knowledge Generators". EMNLP(2023) [paper] [code]
• K-DIAL: "Improving Factual Consistency for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Systems via Knowledge Enhancement and Alignment". EMNLP-Findings(2023) [paper]
• GLM-Dialog: "GLM-Dialog: Noise-tolerant Pre-training for Knowledge-grounded Dialogue Generation". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• RHO: "RHO (ρ): Reducing Hallucination in Open-domain Dialogues with Knowledge Grounding". ACL-Findings(2023) [paper] [code]
• MultiRefKGC: "There Is No Standard Answer: Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation with Adversarial Activated Multi-Reference Learning". EMNLP(2022) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• CorefDiffs: "CorefDiffs: Co-referential and Differential Knowledge Flow in Document Grounded Conversations". COLING(2022) [paper] [code]
• DTR: "Stylized Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation via Disentangled Template Rewriting". NAACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• XDAI: "XDAI: A Tuning-free Framework for Exploiting Pre-trained Language Models in Knowledge Grounded Dialogue Generation". KDD(2022) [paper] [code]
• PersonaKGC: "There Are a Thousand Hamlets in a Thousand People's Eyes: Enhancing Knowledge-grounded Dialogue with Personal Memory". ACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• KI: "Lexical Knowledge Internalization for Neural Dialog Generation". ACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• DiffKG: "Towards Large-Scale Interpretable Knowledge Graph Reasoning for Dialogue Systems". ACL-Findings(2022) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• KSAM: "KSAM: Infusing Multi-Source Knowledge into Dialogue Generation via Knowledge Source Aware Multi-Head Decoding". ACL-Findings(2022) [paper]
• MDSP: "Multi-Stage Prompting for Knowledgeable Dialogue Generation". ACL-Findings(2022) [paper] [code]
• FSB: "Few-Shot Bot: Prompt-Based Learning for Dialogue Systems". arXiv(2021) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• P-GDG: "Exploring Prompt-based Few-shot Learning for Grounded Dialog Generation". arXiv(2021) [paper]
• KAT-TSLF: "A Three-Stage Learning Framework for Low-Resource Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation". EMNLP(2021) [paper] [code]
• DIALKI: "DIALKI: Knowledge Identification in Conversational Systems through Dialogue-Document Contextualization". EMNLP(2021) [paper] [code]
• CoLV: "CoLV: A Collaborative Latent Variable Model for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation". EMNLP(2021) [paper]
• SKT-KG: "Augmenting Knowledge-grounded Conversations with Sequential Knowledge Transition". NAACL(2021) [paper]
• MSKE: "More is Better: Enhancing Open-Domain Dialogue Generation via Multi-Source Heterogeneous Knowledge". EMNLP(2021) [paper] [code]
• EARL: "EARL: Informative Knowledge-Grounded Conversation Generation with Entity-Agnostic Representation Learning". EMNLP(2021) [paper] [code]
• KGD-CF: "Increasing Faithfulness in Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue with Controllable Features". ACL(2021) [paper]
• SECE: "Space Efficient Context Encoding for Non-Task-Oriented Dialogue Generation with Graph Attention Transformer". ACL(2021) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• MIKe: "Initiative-Aware Self-Supervised Learning for Knowledge-Grounded Conversations". SIGIR(2021) [paper] [code]
• GOKC: "Learning to Copy Coherent Knowledge for Response Generation". AAAI(2021) [paper] [code]
• KnowledGPT: "Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation with Pre-trained Language Models". EMNLP(2020) [paper] [code]
• DiffKS: "Difference-aware Knowledge Selection for Knowledge-grounded Conversation Generation". EMNLP-Findings(2020) [paper] [code]
• DukeNet: "DukeNet: A Dual Knowledge Interaction Network for Knowledge-Grounded Conversation". SIGIR(2020) [paper] [code]
• CCN: "Cross Copy Network for Dialogue Generation". EMNLP(2020) [paper] [code]
• PIPM: "Bridging the Gap between Prior and Posterior Knowledge Selection for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation". EMNLP(2020) [paper]
• ConceptFlow: "Grounded Conversation Generation as Guided Traverses in Commonsense Knowledge Graphs". ACL(2020) [paper] [code] :star::star::star::star:
• ConKADI: "Diverse and Informative Dialogue Generation with Context-Specific Commonsense Knowledge Awareness". ACL(2020) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• KIC: "Generating Informative Conversational Response using Recurrent Knowledge-Interaction and Knowledge-Copy". ACL(2020) [paper]
• SKT: "Sequential Latent Knowledge Selection for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue". ICLR(2020) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• KdConv: "KdConv: A Chinese Multi-domain Dialogue Dataset Towards Multi-turn Knowledge-driven Conversation". ACL(2020) [paper] [data]
• TransDG: "Improving Knowledge-aware Dialogue Generation via Knowledge Base Question Answering". AAAI(2020) [paper] [code]
• RefNet: "RefNet: A Reference-aware Network for Background Based Conversation". AAAI(2020) [paper] [code]
• GLKS: "Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Distantly Supervised Global-to-Local Knowledge Selection for Background Based Conversation". AAAI(2020) [paper] [code]
• AKGCM: "Knowledge Aware Conversation Generation with Explainable Reasoning over Augmented Graphs". EMNLP(2019) [paper] [code]
• DyKgChat: "DyKgChat: Benchmarking Dialogue Generation Grounding on Dynamic Knowledge Graphs". EMNLP(2019) [paper] [code]
• OpenDialKG: "OpenDialKG: Explainable Conversational Reasoning with Attention-based Walks over Knowledge Graphs". ACL(2019) [paper] [data]
• WoW: "Wizard of Wikipedia: Knowledge-Powered Conversational agents". ICLR(2019) [paper]
• PostKS: "Learning to Select Knowledge for Response Generation in Dialog Systems". IJCAI(2019) [paper] [code-1] [code-2] :star::star::star:
• NKD: "Knowledge Diffusion for Neural Dialogue Generation". ACL(2018) [paper] [data]
• Dual Fusion: "Smarter Response with Proactive Suggestion: A New Generative Neural Conversation Paradigm". IJCAI(2018) [paper]
• CCM: "Commonsense Knowledge Aware Conversation Generation with Graph Attention". IJCAI(2018) [paper] [code-tf] [code-py] :star::star::star::star::star:
• MTask: "A Knowledge-Grounded Neural Conversation Model". AAAI(2018) [paper]
• GenDS: "Flexible End-to-End Dialogue System for Knowledge Grounded Conversation". arXiv(2017) [paper]

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Task-oriented Dialogue

• P-ToD: "Personalizing Task-oriented Dialog Systems via Zero-shot Generalizable Reward Function". CIKM(2022) [paper]
• Dialogic: "Dialogic: Controllable Dialogue Simulation with In-Context Learning". EMNLP-Findings(2022) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• KB-Adapter: "Injecting Domain Knowledge in Language Models for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems". EMNLP(2022) [paper] [code]
• TacoBot: "Bootstrapping a User-Centered Task-Oriented Dialogue System". Proceedings of Alexa Prize TaskBot(2021) [paper] :star::star::star:
• USDA: "User Satisfaction Estimation with Sequential Dialogue Act Modeling in Goal-oriented Conversational Systems". WWW(2022) [paper] [code]
• USS: "Simulating User Satisfaction for the Evaluation of Task-oriented Dialogue Systems". SIGIR(2021) [paper] [data]
• NS-Dial: "An Interpretable Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning Framework for Task-Oriented Dialogue Generation". ACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• GALAXY: "GALAXY: A Generative Pre-trained Model for Task-Oriented Dialog with Semi-Supervised Learning and Explicit Policy Injection". AAAI(2022) [paper] [code]
• PPTOD: "Multi-Task Pre-Training for Plug-and-Play Task-Oriented Dialogue System". arXiv(2021) [paper] [code]
• ToDCL: "Continual Learning in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems". EMNLP(2021) [paper] [code]
• IR-Net: "Intention Reasoning Network for Multi-Domain End-to-end Task-Oriented Dialogue". EMNLP(2021) [paper]
• HyKnow: "HyKnow: End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog Modeling with Hybrid Knowledge Management". ACL-Findings(2021) [paper] [code]
• DDMN: "Dual Dynamic Memory Network for End-to-End Multi-turn Task-oriented Dialog Systems". COLING(2020) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• ToD-BERT: "ToD-BERT: Pre-trained Natural Language Understanding for Task-Oriented Dialogues". EMNLP(2020) [paper] [code]
• GraphDialog: "GraphDialog: Integrating Graph Knowledge into End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems". EMNLP(2020) [paper] [code]
• MARCO: "Multi-Domain Dialogue Acts and Response Co-Generation". ACL(2020) [paper] [code]
• DF-Net: "Dynamic Fusion Network for Multi-Domain End-to-end Task-Oriented Dialog". ACL(2020) [paper] [code]
• MALA: "MALA: Cross-Domain Dialogue Generation with Action Learning". AAAI(2020) [paper]
• SGD: "Towards Scalable Multi-domain Conversational Agents: The Schema-Guided Dialogue Dataset". AAAI(2020) [paper] [data]
• CrossWOZ: "CrossWOZ: A Large-Scale Chinese Cross-Domain Task-Oriented Dialogue Dataset". TACL(2020) [paper] [code]
• MultiWOZ: "MultiWOZ - A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Wizard-of-Oz Dataset for Task-Oriented Dialogue Modelling". EMNLP(2018) [paper] [code]
• Neural Task-Oriented Dialogue: "Learning to Memorize in Neural Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems". MPhil Thesis(2019) [paper] :star::star::star::star:
• GLMP: "Global-to-local Memory Pointer Networks for Task-Oriented Dialogue". ICLR(2019) [paper] [code] :star::star::star::star::star:
• KB Retriever: "Entity-Consistent End-to-end Task-Oriented Dialogue System with KB Retriever". EMNLP(2019) [paper] [data]
• TRADE: "Transferable Multi-Domain State Generator for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems". ACL(2019) [paper] [code]
• WMM2Seq: "A Working Memory Model for Task-oriented Dialog Response Generation". ACL(2019) [paper]
• Pretrain-Fine-tune: "Training Neural Response Selection for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems". ACL(2019) [paper] [data]
• Multi-level Mem: "Multi-Level Memory for Task Oriented Dialogs". NAACL(2019) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• BossNet: "Disentangling Language and Knowledge in Task-Oriented Dialogs ". NAACL(2019) [paper] [code]
• SDN: "Subgoal Discovery for Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Learning". EMNLP(2018) [paper] :star::star::star:
• D3Q: "Discriminative Deep Dyna-Q: Robust Planning for Dialogue Policy Learning". EMNLP(2018) [paper] [code]
• DDQ: "Deep Dyna-Q: Integrating Planning for Task-Completion Dialogue Policy Learning". ACL(2018) [paper] [code]
• MAD: "Memory-augmented Dialogue Management for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems". TOIS(2018) [paper]
• TSCP: "Sequicity: Simplifying Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Single Sequence-to-Sequence Architectures". ACL(2018) [paper] [code]
• Mem2Seq: "Mem2Seq: Effectively Incorporating Knowledge Bases into End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog Systems". ACL(2018) [paper] [code] :star::star::star::star:
• Topic-Seg-Label: "A Weakly Supervised Method for Topic Segmentation and Labeling in Goal-oriented Dialogues via Reinforcement Learning". IJCAI(2018) [paper] [code]
• AliMe: "AliMe Chat: A Sequence to Sequence and Rerank based Chatbot Engine". ACL(2017) [paper]
• KVR Net: "Key-Value Retrieval Networks for Task-Oriented Dialogue". SIGDIAL(2017) [paper] [data]

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Open-domain Dialogue

• Overview: "Open-domain Dialogue Generation: What We Can Do, Cannot Do, And Should Do Next". ACL-NLP4ConvAI(2022) [paper] :star::star::star:
• Chirpy Cardinal: "Neural Generation Meets Real People: Building a Social, Informative Open-Domain Dialogue Agent". SIGDIAL(2022) [paper] [code] [project]
• TIL: "Towards Efficient Dialogue Pre-training with Transferable and Interpretable Latent Structure". EMNLP(2022) [paper]
• ProphetChat: "ProphetChat: Enhancing Dialogue Generation with Simulation of Future Conversation". ACL(2022) [paper]
• DialoFlow: "Conversations Are Not Flat: Modeling the Dynamic Information Flow across Dialogue Utterances". ACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• DiSCoL: "DiSCoL: Toward Engaging Dialogue Systems through Conversational Line Guided Response Generation". NAACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• DialogBERT: "DialogBERT: Discourse-Aware Response Generation via Learning to Recover and Rank Utterances". AAAI(2021) [paper]
• BlenderBot: "Recipes for Building an Open-Domain Chatbot". EACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• CDial-GPT: "A Large-Scale Chinese Short-Text Conversation Dataset". NLPCC(2020) [paper] [code]
• DialoGPT: "DialoGPT : Large-Scale Generative Pre-training for Conversational Response Generation". ACL(2020) [paper] [code] :star::star::star::star:
• CG-Policy: "Conversational Graph Grounded Policy Learning for Open-Domain Conversation Generation". ACL(2020) [paper]
• PLATO-XL: "PLATO-XL: Exploring the Large-scale Pre-training of Dialogue Generation". arXiv(2021) [paper] [code]
• PLATO-2: "PLATO-2: Towards Building an Open-Domain Chatbot via Curriculum Learning". ACL-Findings(2021) [paper] [code]
• PLATO: "PLATO: Pre-trained Dialogue Generation Model with Discrete Latent Variable". ACL(2020) [paper] [code]
• Guyu: "An Empirical Investigation of Pre-Trained Transformer Language Models for Open-Domain Dialogue Generation". arXiv(2020) [paper] [code]
• CL4Dialogue: "Group-wise Contrastive Learning for Neural Dialogue Generation". EMNLP-Findings(2020) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• Neg-train: "Negative Training for Neural Dialogue Response Generation". ACL(2020) [paper] [code]
• HDSA: "Semantically Conditioned Dialog Response Generation via Hierarchical Disentangled Self-Attention". ACL(2019) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• CAS: "Skeleton-to-Response: Dialogue Generation Guided by Retrieval Memory". NAACL(2019) [paper] [code]
• Edit-N-Rerank: "Response Generation by Context-aware Prototype Editing". AAAI(2019) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• HVMN: "Hierarchical Variational Memory Network for Dialogue Generation". WWW(2018) [paper] [code]
• XiaoIce: "The Design and Implementation of XiaoIce, an Empathetic Social Chatbot". arXiv(2018) [paper] :star::star::star:
• D2A: "Dialog-to-Action: Conversational Question Answering Over a Large-Scale Knowledge Base". NeurIPS(2018) [paper] [code]
• DAIM: "Generating Informative and Diverse Conversational Responses via Adversarial Information Maximization". NeurIPS(2018) [paper]
• REASON: "Dialog Generation Using Multi-turn Reasoning Neural Networks". NAACL(2018) [paper]
• STD/HTD: "Learning to Ask Questions in Open-domain Conversational Systems with Typed Decoders". ACL(2018) [paper] [code]
• CSF: "Generating Informative Responses with Controlled Sentence Function". ACL(2018) [paper] [code]
• DAWnet: "Chat More: Deepening and Widening the Chatting Topic via A Deep Model". SIGIR(2018) [paper] [code]
• ZSDG: "Zero-Shot Dialog Generation with Cross-Domain Latent Actions". SIGDIAL(2018) [paper] [code]
• DUA: "Modeling Multi-turn Conversation with Deep Utterance Aggregation". COLING(2018) [paper] [code]
• Data-Aug: "Sequence-to-Sequence Data Augmentation for Dialogue Language Understanding". COLING(2018) [paper] [code]
• DC-MMI: "Generating More Interesting Responses in Neural Conversation Models with Distributional Constraints". EMNLP(2018) [paper] [code]
• cVAE-XGate/CGate: "Better Conversations by Modeling, Filtering, and Optimizing for Coherence and Diversity". EMNLP(2018) [paper] [code]
• Retrieval+multi-seq2seq: "An Ensemble of Retrieval-Based and Generation-Based Human-Computer Conversation Systems". IJCAI(2018) [paper]
• DAM: "Multi-Turn Response Selection for Chatbots with Deep Attention Matching Network". ACL(2018) [paper] [code] :star::star::star::star:
• SMN: "Sequential Matching Network: A New Architecture for Multi-turn Response Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots". ACL(2017) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• CVAE/KgCVAE: "Learning Discourse-level Diversity for Neural Dialog Models using Conditional Variational Autoencoders". ACL(2017) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• TA-Seq2Seq: "Topic Aware Neural Response Generation". AAAI(2017) [paper] [code]
• MA: "Mechanism-Aware Neural Machine for Dialogue Response Generation". AAAI(2017) [paper]
• VHRED: "A Hierarchical Latent Variable Encoder-Decoder Model for Generating Dialogues". AAAI(2017) [paper] [code]
• HRED: "Building End-To-End Dialogue Systems Using Generative Hierarchical Neural Network Models". AAAI(2016) [paper] [code]
• RL-Dialogue: "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Generation". EMNLP(2016) [paper]
• MMI: "A Diversity-Promoting Objective Function for Neural Conversation Models". NAACL(2016) [paper] [code]

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Dialogue Evaluation

• TD-EVAL: "TD-EVAL: Revisiting Task-Oriented Dialogue Evaluation by Combining Turn-Level Precision with Dialogue-Level Comparisons". arXIv(2025) [paper]
• DialogBench: "DialogBench: Evaluating LLMs as Human-like Dialogue Systems". NAACL(2024) [paper] [code]
• ChatEval: "ChatEval: Towards Better LLM-based Evaluators through Multi-Agent Debate". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• ACCENT: "ACCENT: An Automatic Event Commonsense Evaluation Metric for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems". ACL(2023) [paper] [code]
• LLMEval: "Understanding the Effectiveness of Very Large Language Models on Dialog Evaluation". IWSDS(2023) [paper]
• ChatEvalPlatform: "Don't Forget Your ABC's: Evaluating the State-of-the-Art in Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems". arXiv(2022) [paper] [code]
• MDD-Eval: "MDD-Eval: Self-Training on Augmented Data for Multi-Domain Dialogue Evaluation". AAAI(2022) [paper] [code]
• Self-Eval: "SelF-Eval: Self-supervised Fine-grained Dialogue Evaluation". COLING(2022) [paper] [code]
• FineD-Eval: "FineD-Eval: Fine-grained Automatic Dialogue-Level Evaluation". EMNLP(2022) [paper] [code]
• FlowEval: "FlowEval: A Consensus-Based Dialogue Evaluation Framework Using Segment Act Flows". EMNLP(2022) [paper]
• IM2: "IM^2: an Interpretable and Multi-category Integrated Metric Framework for Automatic Dialogue Evaluation". EMNLP(2022) [paper] [code]
• Q^2: "$Q^{2}$: Evaluating Factual Consistency in Knowledge-Grounded Dialogues via Question Generation and Question Answering". EMNLP(2021) [paper] [code]
• QuantiDCE: "Towards Quantifiable Dialogue Coherence Evaluation". ACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• DynaEval: "DynaEval: Unifying Turn and Dialogue Level Evaluation". ACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• Review: "How to Evaluate Your Dialogue Models: A Review of Approaches". arXiv(2021) [paper]
• ConvLabEval: "Is Your Goal-Oriented Dialog Model Performing Really Well? Empirical Analysis of System-wise Evaluation". SIGDIAL(2020) [paper]
• FED: "Unsupervised Evaluation of Interactive Dialog with DialoGPT". SIGDIAL(2020) [paper] [code] [data] :star::star::star:
• Spot-the-Bot: "Spot The Bot: A Robust and Efficient Framework for the Evaluation of Conversational Dialogue Systems". EMNLP(2020) [paper] [code]
• CMADE: "Beyond User Self-Reported Likert Scale Ratings: A Comparison Model for Automatic Dialog Evaluation". ACL(2020) [paper] [code]
• Coherence: "Dialogue Coherence Assessment Without Explicit Dialogue Act Labels". ACL(2020) [paper] [code]
• MAUDE: "Learning an Unreferenced Metric for Online Dialogue Evaluation". ACL(2020) [paper] [code]
• GRADE: "GRADE: Automatic Graph-Enhanced Coherence Metric for Evaluating Open-Domain Dialogue Systems". ACL(2020) [paper] [code]
• uBLEU: "uBLEU: Uncertainty-Aware Automatic Evaluation Method for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems". ACL(2020) [paper] [code]
• USR: "USR: An Unsupervised and Reference Free Evaluation Metric for Dialog Generation". ACL(2020) [paper] [code]
• ACUTE-EVAL: "ACUTE-EVAL: Improved Dialogue Evaluation with Optimized Questions and Multi-turn Comparisons". NIPS ConvAI Workshop(2019) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• InteractiveEval: "Approximating Interactive Human Evaluation with Self-Play for Open-Domain Dialog Systems". NeurIPS(2019) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• ChatEval: "ChatEval: A Tool for Chatbot Evaluation". NAACL(2019) [paper] [project]
• ADVMT: "One Ruler for All Languages: Multi-Lingual Dialogue Evaluation with Adversarial Multi-Task Learning". IJCAI(2018) [paper]

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Dialogue Misc.

• Crisp: "Crisp: Cognitive Restructuring of Negative Thoughts through Multi-turn Supportive Dialogues". arXiv(2025) [paper] [code]
• ACT: "Learning to Clarify: Multi-turn Conversations with Action-Based Contrastive Self-Training". arXiv(2024) [paper]
• ReviewMT: "Peer Review as A Multi-Turn and Long-Context Dialogue with Role-Based Interactions". arXiv(2024) [paper] [code]
• WildChat: "WildChat: 1M ChatGPT Interaction Logs in the Wild". ICLR(2024) [paper] [data]
• DialogStudio: "DialogStudio: Towards Richest and Most Diverse Unified Dataset Collection for Conversational AI". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• MPC: "Multi-Party Chat: Conversational Agents in Group Settings with Humans and Models". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• SODA: "SODA: Million-scale Dialogue Distillation with Social Commonsense Contextualization". EMNLP(2023) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• speaker-adaptation: "Speaking the Language of Your Listener: Audience-Aware Adaptation via Plug-and-Play Theory of Mind". ACL-Findings(2023) [paper] [code]
• SocialDial: "SocialDial: A Benchmark for Socially-Aware Dialogue Systems". SIGIR(2023) [paper] [data]
• BotsTalk: "BotsTalk: Machine-sourced Framework for Automatic Curation of Large-scale Multi-skill Dialogue Datasets". EMNLP(2022) [paper] [code]
• Dialogic: "Dialogic: Controllable Dialogue Simulation with In-Context Learning". EMNLP-Findings(2022) [paper] [code]
• ProsocialDialog: "ProsocialDialog: A Prosocial Backbone for Conversational Agents". EMNLP(2022) [paper] [code]
• MIC: "The Moral Integrity Corpus: A Benchmark for Ethical Dialogue Systems". ACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• MoralDial: "MoralDial: A Framework to Train and Evaluate Moral Dialogue Systems via Constructing Moral Discussions". arXiv(2022) [paper]
• DECODE: "I like fish, especially dolphins: Addressing Contradictions in Dialogue Modeling". ACL(2021) [paper] [code]

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Natural Language Generation

Survey on NLG

• CTG: "A Survey of Controllable Text Generation using Transformer-based Pre-trained Language Models". arXiv(2022) [paper]
• RTG: "A Survey on Retrieval-Augmented Text Generation". arXiv(2022) [paper]
• Hallucination: "Survey of Hallucination in Natural Language Generation". arXiv(2022) [paper]
• Evaluation: "A Survey of Evaluation Metrics Used for NLG Systems". arXiv(2020) [paper]

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NLG Theories and Techniques

• RED: "Decoder-Only or Encoder-Decoder? Interpreting Language Model as a Regularized Encoder-Decoder". arXiv(2023) [paper] :star::star::star:
• LaMemo: "LaMemo: Language Modeling with Look-Ahead Memory". NAACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• PTG: "Learning to Transfer Prompts for Text Generation". NAACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• EISL: "Don't Take It Literally: An Edit-Invariant Sequence Loss for Text Generation". NAACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• CT-Loss: "A Simple Contrastive Learning Objective for Alleviating Neural Text Degeneration". arXiv(2022) [paper] [code]
• SimCTG: "A Contrastive Framework for Neural Text Generation". NeurIPS(2022) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• CoNT: "CoNT: Contrastive Neural Text Generation". NeurIPS(2022) [paper] [code]
• Two-level-CL: "Keywords and Instances: A Hierarchical Contrastive Learning Framework Unifying Hybrid Granularities for Text Generation". ACL(2022) [paper]
• CLAPS: "Contrastive Learning with Adversarial Perturbations for Conditional Text Generation". ICLR(2021) [paper] [code] :star::star::star::star:
• RetGen: "RetGen: A Joint framework for Retrieval and Grounded Text Generation Modeling". AAAI(2022) [paper] [code]
• RAG: "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks". NeurIPS(2020) [paper] [code] :star::star::star::star:
• TextGAIL: "TextGAIL: Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning for Text Generation". AAAI(2021) [paper] [code]
• Latent-GLAT: "latent-GLAT: Glancing at Latent Variables for Parallel Text Generation". ACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• s2s-ft: "s2s-ft: Fine-Tuning Pretrained Transformer Encoders for Sequence-to-Sequence Learning". arXiv(2021) [paper] [code]
• EBM: "Exposure Bias versus Self-Recovery: Are Distortions Really Incremental for Autoregressive Text Generation?". EMNLP(2021) [paper]
• DiscoDVT: "DiscoDVT: Generating Long Text with Discourse-Aware Discrete Variational Transformer". EMNLP(2021) [paper] [code]
• DATG: "Data Augmentation for Text Generation Without Any Augmented Data". ACL(2021) [paper]
• JointGT: "JointGT: Graph-Text Joint Representation Learning for Text Generation from Knowledge Graphs". ACL-Findings(2021) [paper] [code]
• Embedding-Transfer: "Bridging Subword Gaps in Pretrain-Finetune Paradigm for Natural Language Generation". ACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• FastSeq: "EL-Attention: Memory Efficient Lossless Attention for Generation". ICML(2021) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• BERTSeq2Seq: "Leveraging Pre-trained Checkpoints for Sequence Generation Tasks". TACL(2020) [paper] [code-tf] [code-py] :star::star::star:
• ERNIE-GEN: "ERNIE-GEN: An Enhanced Multi-Flow Pre-training and Fine-tuning Framework for Natural Language Generation". IJCAI(2020) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• DITTO: "Learning to Break the Loop: Analyzing and Mitigating Repetitions for Neural Text Generation". NeurIPS(2022) [paper] [code]
• Repetition-Problem: "A Theoretical Analysis of the Repetition Problem in Text Generation". AAAI(2021) [paper] [code]
• ENCONTER: "ENCONTER: Entity Constrained Progressive Sequence Generation via Insertion-based Transformer". EACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• POINTER: "POINTER: Constrained Progressive Text Generation via Insertion-based Generative Pre-training". EMNLP(2020) [paper] [code]
• Cascaded Generation: "Cascaded Text Generation with Markov Transformers". NeurIPS(2020) [paper] [code]
• SFOT: "Improving Text Generation with Student-Forcing Optimal Transport". EMNLP(2020) [paper]
• OT-Seq2Seq: "Improving Sequence-to-Sequence Learning via Optimal Transport". ICLR(2019) [paper] [code]

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Diffusion Models for NLG

• RenderDiffusion: "RenderDiffusion: Text Generation as Image Generation". arXiv(2023) [paper]
• Masked-Diffusion-LM: "A Cheaper and Better Diffusion Language Model with Soft-Masked Noise". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• discrete-diffusion: "A Reparameterized Discrete Diffusion Model for Text Generation". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• Difformer: "Difformer: Empowering Diffusion Models on the Embedding Space for Text Generation". arXiv(2023) [paper] :star::star::star:
• GENIE: "Text Generation with Diffusion Language Models: A Pre-training Approach with Continuous Paragraph Denoise". arXiv(2022) [paper] [code]
• SED: "Self-conditioned Embedding Diffusion for Text Generation". arXiv(2022) [paper]
• SSD-LM: "SSD-LM: Semi-autoregressive Simplex-based Diffusion Language Model for Text Generation and Modular Control". arXiv(2022) [paper] [code]
• LD4LG: "Latent Diffusion for Language Generation". arXiv(2022) [paper] [code]
• DiffusionBERT: "DiffusionBERT: Improving Generative Masked Language Models with Diffusion Models". arXiv(2022) [paper] [code]
• DiffusER: "DiffusER: Discrete Diffusion via Edit-based Reconstruction". arXiv(2022) [paper] [code]
• SeqDiffuSeq: "SeqDiffuSeq: Text Diffusion with Encoder-Decoder Transformers". arXiv(2022) [paper] [code]
• DiffuSeq: "DiffuSeq: Sequence to Sequence Text Generation with Diffusion Models". ICLR(2023) [paper] [code]
• Diffusion-LM: "Diffusion-LM Improves Controllable Text Generation". NeurIPS(2022) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• D3PM: "Structured Denoising Diffusion Models in Discrete State-Spaces". NeurIPS(2021) [paper] [code]

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Controllable Generation

• TRACE: "TRACE Back from the Future: A Probabilistic Reasoning Approach to Controllable Language Generation". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• ConGenBench: "Controllable Text Generation in the Instruction-Tuning Era". arXiv(2024) [paper] [code]
• GeLaTo: "Tractable Control for Autoregressive Language Generation". arXiv(2023) [paper]
• Cognac: "Controllable Text Generation with Language Constraints". arXiv(2022) [paper] [code]
• CriticControl: "Critic-Guided Decoding for Controlled Text Generation". arXiv(2022) [paper]
• LatentOps: "Composable Text Controls in Latent Space with ODEs". arXiv(2022) [paper] [code]
• FAST: "FAST: Improving Controllability for Text Generation with Feedback Aware Self-Training". arXiv(2022) [paper]
• DisCup: "DisCup: Discriminator Cooperative Unlikelihood Prompt-tuning for Controllable Text Generation". EMNLP(2022) [paper] [code]
• MultiControl: "A Distributional Lens for Multi-Aspect Controllable Text Generation". EMNLP(2022) [paper] [code]
• NADO: "Controllable Text Generation with Neurally-Decomposed Oracle". NeurIPS(2022) [paper] [code]
• Mix-Match: "Mix and Match: Learning-free Controllable Text Generation using Energy Language Models". ACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• ControlPrefix: "Controllable Natural Language Generation with Contrastive Prefixes". ACL-Findings(2022) [paper]
• MUCOCO: "Controlled Text Generation as Continuous Optimization with Multiple Constraints". NeurIPS(2021) [paper] [code]
• DExperts: "DExperts: Decoding-Time Controlled Text Generation with Experts and Anti-Experts". ACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• FUDGE: "FUDGE: Controlled Text Generation With Future Discriminators". NAACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• GeDi: "GeDi: Generative Discriminator Guided Sequence Generation". EMNLP-Findings(2021) [paper] [code]
• GDC: "A Distributional Approach to Controlled Text Generation". ICLR(2021) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• CoCon: "CoCon: A Self-Supervised Approach for Controlled Text Generation". ICLR(2021) [paper] [code]
• PPLM: "Plug and Play Language Models: A Simple Approach to Controlled Text Generation". ICLR(2020) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• CTRL: "CTRL: A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation". arXiv(2019) [paper] [code]

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Text Planning

• CoScript: "Distilling Script Knowledge from Large Language Models for Constrained Language Planning". ACL(2023) [paper] [code]
• RSTGen: "RSTGen: Imbuing Fine-Grained Interpretable Control into Long-FormText Generators". NAACL(2022) [paper]
• Time Control: "Language Modeling via Stochastic Processes". ICLR(2022) [paper] [code] :star::star::star::star::star:
• PLANET: "PLANET: Dynamic Content Planning in Autoregressive Transformers for Long-form Text Generation". ACL(2022) [paper]
• EventPlan: "Event Transition Planning for Open-ended Text Generation". ACL-Findings(2022) [paper] [code]
• CETP: "Knowledge-based Review Generation by Coherence Enhanced Text Planning". SIGIR(2021) [paper] :star::star::star:
• PlanGen: "Plan-then-Generate: Controlled Data-to-Text Generation via Planning". EMNLP-Findings(2021) [paper] [code]
• DYPLOC: "DYPLOC: Dynamic Planning of Content Using Mixed Language Models for Text Generation". ACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• Tree-PLAN: "Infobox-to-text Generation with Tree-like Planning based Attention Network". IJCAI(2020) [paper]
• ProphetNet: "ProphetNet: Predicting Future N-gram for Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training". EMNLP-Findings(2020) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• PAIR: "PAIR: Planning and Iterative Refinement in Pre-trained Transformers for Long Text Generation". EMNLP(2020) [paper] [code]
• SentPlan: "Sentence-Level Content Planning and Style Specification for Neural Text Generation". EMNLP(2019) [paper] [code]
• PHVM: "Long and Diverse Text Generation with Planning-based Hierarchical Variational Model". EMNLP(2019) [paper] [code]
• TwinNet: "Twin Networks: Matching the Future for Sequence Generation". ICLR(2018) [paper] [code]
• PAG: "Plan, Attend, Generate: Planning for Sequence-to-Sequence Models". NIPS(2017) [paper]

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Decoding Algorithms

• Parallel Text Generation: "A Survey on Parallel Text Generation: From Parallel Decoding to Diffusion Language Models". arXiv(2025) [paper]
• Speculative Decoding Survey: "Unlocking Efficiency in Large Language Model Inference: A Comprehensive Survey of Speculative Decoding". ACL-Findings(2024) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• Speculative Decoding: "Speculative Decoding: Exploiting Speculative Execution for Accelerating Seq2seq Generation". EMNLP-Findings(2023) [paper] [code]
• Medusa: "Medusa: Simple Framework for Accelerating LLM Generation with Multiple Decoding Heads". Github(2023) [Blog] [code]
• Lookahead Decoding: "Breaking the Sequential Dependency of LLM Inference Using Lookahead Decoding". LMSYS Org(2023) [Blog] [code] :star::star::star:
• Speculative Sampling: "Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling". arXiv(2023) [paper]
• Speculative Decoding: "Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding". ICML(2023) [paper] [code]
• Parallel Decoding: "Accelerating Transformer Inference for Translation via Parallel Decoding". ACL(2023) [paper] [code]
• EAD: "The Stable Entropy Hypothesis and Entropy-Aware Decoding: An Analysis and Algorithm for Robust Natural Language Generation". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• Contrastive Search: "Contrastive Search Is What You Need For Neural Text Generation". TMLR(2023) [paper] [code] [blog] :star::star::star:
• Momentum Decoding: "Momentum Decoding: Open-ended Text Generation As Graph Exploration". arXiv(2022) [paper] [code]
• Crowd Sampling: "Follow the Wisdom of the Crowd: Effective Text Generation via Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding". arXiv(2022) [paper] [code]
• RankGen: "RankGen: Improving Text Generation with Large Ranking Models". EMNLP(2022) [paper] [code]
• Contrastive Decoding: "Contrastive Decoding: Open-ended Text Generation as Optimization". arXiv(2022) [paper] [code]
• COLD: "COLD Decoding: Energy-based Constrained Text Generation with Langevin Dynamics". NeurIPS(2022) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• Lattice: "Massive-scale Decoding for Text Generation using Lattices". NAACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• KID: "Knowledge Infused Decoding". ICLR(2022) [paper] [code]
• NeuroLogic A*esque: "NeuroLogic A *esque Decoding: Constrained Text Generation with Lookahead Heuristics". NAACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• NeuroLogic: "NeuroLogic Decoding: (Un)supervised Neural Text Generation with Predicate Logic Constraints". NAACL(2021) [paper] [code]
• DeLorean: "Back to the Future: Unsupervised Backprop-based Decoding for Counterfactual and Abductive Commonsense Reasoning". EMNLP(2020) [paper] [code]
• Top-p (Nucleus) Sampling: "The Curious Case of Neural Text Degeneration". ICLR(2020) [paper] [code] :star::star::star:
• BP Decoding: "Blockwise Parallel Decoding for Deep Autoregressive Models". NIPS(2018) [paper]
• Disjunctive Constraints: "Guided Generation of Cause and Effect". IJCAI(2020) [paper] [code-huggingface]
• CGMH: "CGMH: Constrained Sentence Generation by Metropolis-Hastings Sampling". AAAI(2019) [paper] [code]
• DBS: "Directed Beam Search: Plug-and-Play Lexically Constrained Language Generation". arXiv(2020) [paper] [code]
• DBA: "Fast Lexically Constrained Decoding with Dynamic Beam Allocation for Neural Machine Translation". NAACL(2018) [paper] [code-official] [code-fairseq]
• GBS: "Lexically Constrained Decoding for Sequence Generation Using Grid Beam Search". ACL(2017) [paper] [code]

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NLG Evaluation

• Survey: "Leveraging Large Language Models for NLG Evaluation: A Survey". arXiv(2024) [paper]
• BBScore: "BBScore: A Brownian Bridge Based Metric for Assessing Text Coherence". AAAI(2024) [paper]
• GPTEval: "GPTEval: NLG Evaluation using GPT-4 with Better Human Alignment". arXiv(2023) [paper]
• GPTScore: "GPTScore: Evaluate as You Desire". arXiv(2023) [paper] [code]
• RoMe: "RoMe: A Robust Metric for Evaluating Natural Language Generation". ACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• EAD: "Rethinking and Refining the Distinct Metric". ACL(2022) [paper] [code]
• MID: "Mutual Information Divergence: A Unified Metric for Multimodal Generative Models". NeurIPS(2022) [paper]
• DiscoScore: "DiscoScore: Evaluating Text Generation with BERT and Discourse Coherence". arXiv(2022) [paper] [code]
• CTC-Score: "Compression, Transduction, and Creation: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Natural Language Generation". EMNLP(2021) [paper] [code]
• BLEURT: "BLEURT: Learning Robust Metrics for Text Generation". ACL(2020) [paper] [code]

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