Incremental Learning for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Systems in Industrial Scenarios

Authors: Izaskun Fernández Cristina Aceta Cristina Fernández María Inés Torres Aitor Etxalar Ariane Méndez Amuchategui Maia Agirre Pascual de Zulueta Manuel Torralbo Lezana Arantza del Pozo Echezarreta Joseba Agirre Egoitz Artetxe Iker Altuna

Date: 18.09.2024


Abstract

In today’s industrial landscape, seamless collaboration between humans and machines is essential and requires a shared knowledge of the operational domain. In this framework, the technical knowledge for operator assistance has traditionally been derived from static sources such as technical documents. However, experienced operators hold invaluable know-how that can significantly contribute to support other operators. This work focuses on enhancing the operator assistance tasks in the manufacturing industry by leveraging spoken natural language interaction. More specifically, a Human-in-the-Loop (HIL) incremental learning approach is proposed to integrate this expertise into a domain knowledge graph (KG) dynamically, along with the use of in-context learning for Large Language Models (LLMs) to benefit other capabilities of the system. Preliminary results of the experimentation carried out in an industrial scenario, where the graph size was increased in a 25%, demonstrate that the incremental enhancing of the KG benefits the dialogue system’s performance.

BIB_text

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In today’s industrial landscape, seamless collaboration between humans and machines is essential and requires a shared knowledge of the operational domain. In this framework, the technical knowledge for operator assistance has traditionally been derived from static sources such as technical documents. However, experienced operators hold invaluable know-how that can significantly contribute to support other operators. This work focuses on enhancing the operator assistance tasks in the manufacturing industry by leveraging spoken natural language interaction. More specifically, a Human-in-the-Loop (HIL) incremental learning approach is proposed to integrate this expertise into a domain knowledge graph (KG) dynamically, along with the use of in-context learning for Large Language Models (LLMs) to benefit other capabilities of the system. Preliminary results of the experimentation carried out in an industrial scenario, where the graph size was increased in a 25%, demonstrate that the incremental enhancing of the KG benefits the dialogue system’s performance.


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