Towards Robustness and Diversity: Continual Learning in Dialog Generation with Text-Mixup and Batch Nuclear-Norm Maximization
In our dynamic world where data arrives in a continuous stream, continual learning enables us to incrementally add new tasks/domains without the need to retrain from scratch. A major challenge in continual learning of language model is catastrophic forgetting, the tendency of models to forget knowledge from previously trained tasks/domains when training on new ones. This paper studies dialog generation under the continual learning setting. We propose a novel method that 1) uses \textit{Text-Mixup} as data augmentation to avoid model overfitting on replay memory and 2) leverages Batch-Nuclear Norm Maximization (BNNM) to alleviate the problem of mode collapse. Experiments on a $37$-domain task-oriented dialog dataset and DailyDialog (a $10$-domain chitchat dataset) demonstrate that our proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art in continual learning.
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