Artificial Intelligence · 25.08.2026, 11:31 UTC
ToSCA: Leveraging Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning on Temporal and Strategic Abstractions of Conversational Agents
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | arXiv cs.CL ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 25.08.2026 UTC |
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arXiv:2608.21969v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans have multiple levels of temporal abstractions on daily interaction and thinking, such as concept perception and strategic planning. Inspired by this nature, we propose a two-level hierarchical reinforcement learning (RL) framework for conversational agents, bridging the gap between previous token-level or utterance-level RL methods. Developed on a two-level MDP, the token-level response decoding is conditioned on the utterance-level action, the explicit textual strategies. Based on theoretical derivation and efficiency consideration, we use DQN to solve the high-level critic and PPO to solve the low-level actor-critic. To further alleviate the reward sparsity and facilitate the convergence, we also design the dual-granularity reward mechanism, in which the utterance-level satisfaction score is integrated with token-level intrinsic motivation and K-L penalty. Experiments on both daily and emotional support conversations show that our method outperforms versatile baselines in strategy determination and response quality. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/AaronJi/ToSCA.
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