让对话系统主动识别用户隐性需求,提升情感支持效果
User-Aware Active Knowledge Acquisition for Emotional Support Dialogue

- 通过心智理论估计用户不确定性,主动引导更有信息量的反馈
- 在多个数据集上显著提升对话质量与用户契合度,优于主流基线
- 适用于需要精准理解用户情绪的智能客服、心理陪伴等场景
情感支持在对话系统中至关重要,其成效取决于在多轮交互中适应用户不断变化且隐含的需求,同时利用大语言模型的强大推理能力。然而,由于用户需求信号通常微弱、间接,需通过多轮互动才能澄清,现有方法在高效获取和泛化相关对话知识方面表现不佳。为此,我们提出用户感知的主动知识获取(UKA)框架,一种无梯度的主动对话学习方法,显式建模对用户需求的不确定性,并将主动学习融入知识获取与响应选择过程。我们设计了基于心智理论的不确定性估计机制,使模型能优先选择可激发更丰富用户反馈的回应。UKA 在训练期间能高效探索与用户对齐的对话知识,同时保持测试时的鲁棒性。在多个对话基准和模型架构上的实验表明,该方法在对话质量与用户契合度上持续优于强基线。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Emotional support plays an important role in dialogue systems, and its success depends on adapting to a user's evolving and implicit needs across multi-turn interactions while leveraging the strong reasoning capacity of large language models. However, since signals about user needs are often weak, indirect, and can only be disambiguated through multi-turn interaction, existing emotional support methods often struggle to acquire and generalize relevant conversational knowledge efficiently. To bridge this gap, we introduce User-Aware Active Knowledge Acquisition (UKA), a gradient-free active dialogue learning framework that explicitly represents uncertainty about user needs and incorporates active learning into both knowledge acquisition and response selection.We propose a Theory-of-Mind uncertainty estimation mechanism that allows the model to prioritize responses, thereby eliciting more informative user feedback. UKA is capable of efficiently exploring user-aligned conversational knowledge during training while maintaining robustness at test time. Experiments across multiple dialogue benchmarks and model architectures demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms strong baselines in dialogue quality and user alignment.
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