Nguyen Viet Dung Nghiem


2022

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Make The Most of Prior Data: A Solution for Interactive Text Summarization with Preference Feedback
Duy-Hung Nguyen | Nguyen Viet Dung Nghiem | Bao-Sinh Nguyen | Dung Tien Tien Le | Shahab Sabahi | Minh-Tien Nguyen | Hung Le
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022

For summarization, human preferences is critical to tame outputs of the summarizer in favor of human interests, as ground-truth summaries are scarce and ambiguous. Practical settings require dynamic exchanges between humans and AI agents wherein feedback is provided in an online manner, a few at a time. In this paper, we introduce a new framework to train summarization models with preference feedback interactively. By properly leveraging offline data and a novel reward model, we improve the performance regarding ROUGE scores and sample-efficiency. Our experiments on three various datasets confirm the benefit of the proposed framework in active, few-shot and online settings of preference learning.