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Towards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards

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This paper cites GPT-4 Technical Report.

Towards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards GPT-4 Technical Report

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Towards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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Towards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards Knowledge-enhanced Mixed-initiative Dialogue System for Emotional Support Conversations

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Towards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards Improving Language Model Negotiation with Self-Play and In-Context Learning from AI Feedback

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Towards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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Towards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards A Survey on LLM-as-a-Judge

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Towards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

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Towards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards Knowledge-enhanced Memory Model for Emotional Support Conversation

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Towards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with Reinforcement Learning

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Towards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards Control Globally, Understand Locally: A Global-to-Local Hierarchical Graph Network for Emotional Support Conversation

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Towards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards DialogXpert: Driving Intelligent and Emotion-Aware Conversations through Online Value-Based Reinforcement Learning with LLM Priors

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Towards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards Logic-RL: Unleashing LLM Reasoning with Rule-Based Reinforcement Learning

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