用反馈感知的蒙特卡洛树搜索,让对话系统更高效地提问找信息。
Feedback-Aware Monte Carlo Tree Search for Efficient Information Seeking in Goal-Oriented Conversations
- 基于大模型生成问题,用带反馈奖励的蒙特卡洛树搜索选最优问法。
- 在医疗和故障排查任务中,成功率提升12%,调用大模型次数减少10倍。
- 适合需要高效提问的智能客服、诊断助手等目标导向对话场景。
对话系统在决策与问题解决中需通过针对性提问获取缺失信息。核心挑战在于如何通过提问高效缩小可能结果空间,降低不确定性。为此,我们提出一种新框架:利用大语言模型(LLMs)生成信息寻求问题,并结合蒙特卡洛树搜索(MCTS)进行推理时规划,以选择最大化信息增益的问题。关键创新在于引入分层反馈机制,基于历史交互模式指导未来策略。具体而言,每个新问题根据语义相似性映射到一个聚类,其UCT公式采用聚类专属奖励加成,优先选择过去对类似问题有效的提问路径。在医疗诊断与技术排障领域的实证评估显示,该方法平均成功率达12%提升,每轮对话的LLM规划调用次数减少约10倍;当初始可能性受限时,成功率额外提升8%。结果表明,反馈感知的MCTS能显著增强目标导向对话中的信息获取效率。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Effective decision-making and problem-solving in conversational systems require the ability to identify and acquire missing information through targeted questioning. A key challenge lies in efficiently narrowing down a large space of possible outcomes by posing questions that minimize uncertainty. To address this, we introduce a novel framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate information-seeking questions, with Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to strategically select questions that maximize information gain, as a part of inference-time planning. Our primary contribution includes a hierarchical feedback mechanism that exploits past interaction patterns to guide future strategy. Specifically, each new problem is mapped to a cluster based on semantic similarity, and our UCT (Upper Confidence bound for Trees) formulation employs a cluster-specific bonus reward to prioritize successful question trajectories that have proven effective for similar problems in the past. Extensive empirical evaluation across medical diagnosis and technical troubleshooting domains shows that our method achieves an average of 12% improvement in success rates and about 10x reduction in the number of LLM calls made for planning per conversation, compared to the state of the art. An additional 8% gain in success rate is observed on average when we start with a constrained set of possibilities. Our results underscore the efficacy of feedback-aware MCTS in enhancing information-seeking in goal-oriented dialogues.
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