arxiv: 2604.12179 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-14 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.IR

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AgenticAI-DialogGen: Topic-Guided Conversation Generation for Fine-Tuning and Evaluating Short- and Long-Term Memories of LLMs

Manoj Madushanka Perera , Adnan Mahmood , Kasun Eranda Wijethilake , Quan Z. Sheng

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keywords conversation generationLLM fine-tuningmemory evaluationtopic-guided dialogueknowledge graphsagent-based frameworkunsupervised datasetmemory-grounded QA

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The pith

An agent-based system turns unstructured text into topic-guided dialogues and memory QA pairs to train LLMs on short- and long-term recall.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents AgenticAI-DialogGen as a way to create training and test data for conversational memory that existing datasets do not provide. LLM agents first pull knowledge graphs from raw input, pick topics, build speaker personas, and then generate new dialogues that stay on topic while keeping character consistency. A QA module then pulls questions and answers from both the graphs (long-term memory) and the fresh dialogue turns (short-term memory). The resulting TopicGuidedChat dataset is used to fine-tune LLMs, and the authors report gains on memory-grounded question answering. This matters because current models struggle to track information across long conversations without such structured history.

Core claim

AgenticAI-DialogGen coordinates LLM agents to extract knowledge graphs, identify topics, construct speaker personas, and simulate coherent topic-guided conversations from unstructured sources, then produces memory-grounded QA pairs from both the graphs and the new dialogues. The TopicGuidedChat dataset encodes long-term memory as speaker-specific knowledge graphs and short-term memory as the generated conversations. Models fine-tuned on this data show improved performance on memory-grounded QA tasks, and the generated conversations score higher in quality metrics than prior unsupervised approaches.

What carries the argument

AgenticAI-DialogGen, a modular pipeline of LLM agents that extracts knowledge graphs, detects topics, builds personas, generates topic-guided dialogues, and creates short- and long-term QA pairs.

If this is right

LLMs fine-tuned on the TGC dataset perform better at answering questions that require recalling details from both recent turns and earlier knowledge-graph facts.
The generated conversations maintain stronger topic continuity and persona consistency than previous unsupervised generation methods.
Memory QA pairs can be produced automatically from knowledge graphs for long-term facts and from dialogue turns for short-term facts.
The entire pipeline runs without human annotation, lowering the cost of creating large memory-aware conversational datasets.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The knowledge-graph storage of long-term memory could be combined with graph-based retrieval methods to further improve recall accuracy.
The same agent pipeline might generate training data for multi-turn planning or story consistency tasks that also need persistent memory.
If agent reliability holds across domains, the method could scale to produce very large synthetic datasets for testing context-window limits.

Load-bearing premise

LLM agents can reliably extract accurate knowledge graphs, choose fitting topics, maintain consistent personas, and produce natural conversations from raw text without human review or correction.

What would settle it

Human raters judging the generated dialogues as lower quality or less coherent than existing human-annotated datasets, or fine-tuned models showing no improvement or a drop in accuracy on memory QA benchmarks.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.12179 by Adnan Mahmood, Kasun Eranda Wijethilake, Manoj Madushanka Perera, Quan Z. Sheng.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: A high-level overview of the AgenticAIDialogGen framework. traits and topic continuity. Achieving these abilities requires fine-tuning and evaluation on datasets that encode both short- and long-term memories, yet existing datasets lack such structure, limiting progress in memory-grounded conversation modeling. Existing conversational datasets fall into two main categories. The first category includes c… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: A modular agent-based architecture of AgenticAI-DialogGen. dataset. The objective is to transform unstructured conversational turns in the source dataset into a clean and speaker-resolved sequence suitable for structured analysis. The ChatPreprocessor module loads the source dataset conversational turns, assigns consistent speaker identifiers (speaker1 and speaker2), and resolves ambiguities in the origin… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Overview of a sample TGC dataset for a single [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png] view at source ↗

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Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have improved their ability to process extended conversational contexts, yet fine-tuning and evaluating short- and long-term memories remain difficult due to the absence of datasets that encode both short- and long-term conversational history. Existing conversational datasets lack memory grounding, overlook topic continuity, or rely on costly human annotation. To address these gaps, we introduce AgenticAI-DialogGen, a modular agent-based framework that generates persona-grounded and topic-guided conversations without human supervision. The framework uses LLM agents to extract knowledge graphs, identify topics, build speaker personas, and simulate topic-guided conversations from unstructured conversations. A QA module generates memory-grounded Question Answer (QA) pairs drawn from short- and long-term conversational histories. We also generated a new dataset entitled, TopicGuidedChat (TGC), where long-term memory is encoded as speaker-specific knowledge graphs and short-term memory as newly generated topic-guided conversations. Evaluations depict that AgenticAI-DialogGen yields higher conversational quality and LLMs fine-tuned on TGC dataset achieve improved performance on memory-grounded QA tasks.

Editorial analysis

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The paper gives a modular LLM-agent pipeline to build topic-guided dialogues and memory QA pairs from raw text, but the performance claims have no numbers or baselines attached.

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The main takeaway is that AgenticAI-DialogGen chains LLM agents to pull knowledge graphs, pick topics, build personas, and then simulate conversations plus short- and long-term memory QA pairs, producing the TGC dataset where long-term memory sits in speaker-specific graphs and short-term memory is the new dialogues. This setup directly targets the shortage of datasets that keep topic continuity and explicit memory across turns, which matters for fine-tuning LLMs on longer contexts. The modular breakdown is clear and avoids human annotation, so the method could be straightforward to adapt for other dialogue generation work. It does a reasonable job spelling out the steps and why they matter for memory-grounded evaluation. The soft spot is the evaluation. The abstract states higher conversational quality and better results on memory QA after fine-tuning, yet supplies no dataset sizes, no baseline comparisons, no error rates, and no human checks on whether the extracted graphs or generated turns stay consistent. That leaves open the possibility that any reported gains come from the generator's own patterns rather than genuine memory improvement. The lack of any grounding or quality-control step for the LLM agents on KG accuracy and cross-turn coherence is the main risk, exactly as the stress-test note flags. If those agents make systematic linking or consistency errors, the QA pairs test style matching more than actual recall. This work is aimed at people building or evaluating dialogue systems and memory-augmented LLMs who need scalable ways to create training data. A reader focused on dataset construction techniques would get practical ideas from the pipeline even if the results stay preliminary. It deserves a serious referee because the problem is real and the method is concrete, though the paper would need the missing metrics and validation before it could stand on its own. I would send it for review if the full version includes quantitative results and some analysis of generated data quality.

Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper introduces AgenticAI-DialogGen, a modular LLM-agent framework that extracts knowledge graphs from unstructured input, identifies topics, constructs speaker personas, and generates topic-guided conversations to produce the TGC dataset. Long-term memory is encoded as speaker-specific KGs and short-term memory as the generated dialogues; a QA module then creates memory-grounded question-answer pairs. The central claim is that the framework produces higher-quality conversations than prior methods and that LLMs fine-tuned on TGC show improved performance on memory-grounded QA tasks.

Significance. If the quantitative claims hold, the work would supply a scalable, unsupervised pipeline for creating large conversational datasets that explicitly encode both short-term topic continuity and long-term persona-consistent memory, addressing a recognized gap in existing dialogue corpora that either lack memory grounding or require expensive human annotation.

major comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract: the assertion that 'AgenticAI-DialogGen yields higher conversational quality' and that 'LLMs fine-tuned on TGC dataset achieve improved performance on memory-grounded QA tasks' is unsupported by any reported metrics, baselines, dataset sizes, error bars, or statistical tests, rendering the central empirical claim unevaluable from the manuscript.
[Framework description] Framework description (as summarized in the abstract): the pipeline assumes LLM agents can reliably perform unsupervised KG extraction, topic identification, persona construction, and coherent multi-turn dialogue simulation without human QC or external grounding; no validation experiments, consistency metrics, or error analysis for entity linking or cross-turn factual consistency are described, which directly undermines the reliability of the long-term memory component of TGC.

minor comments (1)

[Abstract] Abstract contains an extraneous comma after 'entitled' and uses 'depict that' where 'demonstrate that' or 'show that' would be more conventional.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive comments, which have helped us identify areas for improvement in the presentation of our results. We address each major comment below and outline the revisions we will make to the manuscript.

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Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the assertion that 'AgenticAI-DialogGen yields higher conversational quality' and that 'LLMs fine-tuned on TGC dataset achieve improved performance on memory-grounded QA tasks' is unsupported by any reported metrics, baselines, dataset sizes, error bars, or statistical tests, rendering the central empirical claim unevaluable from the manuscript.

Authors: We agree that the abstract should provide more concrete details to support the claims. The full manuscript includes an experiments section with quantitative evaluations, including comparisons to baseline conversation generation methods, specific dataset sizes for TGC, performance metrics on memory QA tasks, and some statistical analysis. To make these claims evaluable directly from the abstract, we will revise it to include key quantitative findings, such as the reported improvements in quality scores and task accuracies, along with references to the baselines used. revision: yes
Referee: [Framework description] Framework description (as summarized in the abstract): the pipeline assumes LLM agents can reliably perform unsupervised KG extraction, topic identification, persona construction, and coherent multi-turn dialogue simulation without human QC or external grounding; no validation experiments, consistency metrics, or error analysis for entity linking or cross-turn factual consistency are described, which directly undermines the reliability of the long-term memory component of TGC.

Authors: The referee raises a valid point regarding the need for validation of the agent-based components. The current manuscript focuses on describing the framework and the resulting dataset but does not include dedicated experiments validating the accuracy of KG extraction or cross-turn consistency. We will add validation results, including metrics for entity linking accuracy on a held-out set, human-evaluated consistency scores for a sample of dialogues, and an error analysis section to address potential issues in long-term memory encoding. This will be incorporated into the revised manuscript. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: independent generative pipeline with external empirical evaluation

full rationale

The paper presents AgenticAI-DialogGen as a modular LLM-agent pipeline that ingests unstructured conversations, extracts KGs, identifies topics, builds personas, and generates new topic-guided dialogues plus QA pairs to form the TGC dataset. Downstream claims rest on reported quality metrics and fine-tuning gains on memory-grounded QA tasks. No equations, fitted parameters, self-definitional loops, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided text; the generation process is described as an independent forward pipeline whose outputs are then evaluated rather than tautologically redefined. This is the common case of a self-contained empirical system description, warranting score 0.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The approach rests on the domain assumption that current LLMs possess sufficient capability to perform reliable knowledge-graph extraction, topic identification, persona consistency, and coherent multi-turn dialogue generation without external verification.

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domain assumption LLM agents can extract accurate knowledge graphs and maintain topic continuity from unstructured text
Invoked in the description of the modular agent pipeline in the abstract.

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