Dual Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Learning for Legal Inquisitive Conversational Agents
Authors: Xubo Lin, Zezhii Deng, Shihao Wang et al.
Summary
arXiv:2605. 14057v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most existing dialogue systems are user-driven, primarily designed to fulfill user requests.
Relevance
Read next because Dual Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Learning for Legal Inquisitive Conversational Agents overlaps with clean result "LoRA persona trained on alone emits at 23.5% when a co-trained partner learns ..., vs 0% control on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (MODERATE confidence)", clean result "Language-mismatch LoRA SFT on Qwen2.5-7B leaks the trained completion language into bystander directives the model was never trained on, absent under same-language SFT (LOW confidence)", clean result "Coupling evil personas with wrong answers fails to protect Qwen2.5-7B from EM-induced alignment collapse — and the apparent capability ordering across coupling conditions is mostly eval contamination (LOW confidence)". Matching terms: fill, eval, line, rate. Source: arxiv cs.CL (NLP).
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Potential threat/caveat for clean result "LoRA persona trained on alone emits at 23.5% when a co-trained partner learns ..., vs 0% control on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (MODERATE confidence)": this item discusses evaluation.
Abstract
arXiv:2605.14057v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most existing dialogue systems are user-driven, primarily designed to fulfill user requests. However, in many critical real-world scenarios, a conversational agent must proactively extract information to achieve its own objectives rather than merely respond. To address this gap, we introduce \emph{Inquisitive Conversational Agents (ICAs)} and develop an ICA specifically tailored to U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments. We propose a Dual Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning framework featuring two cooperating RL agents, each with its own policy, to coordinate strategic dialogue management and fine-grained utterance generation. By learning when and how to ask probing questions, the agent emulates judicial questioning patterns and systematically uncovers crucial information to fulfill its legal objectives. Evaluations on a U.S. Supreme Court dataset show that our method outperforms various baselines across multiple metrics. It represents an important first step toward broader high-stakes, domain-specific applications.