Empathetic-Dialogues

DCC framework proposes dynamic commonsense coordination for empathetic dialogue generation

A new arXiv preprint introduces DCC (Dynamic Commonsense Coordination), a framework for empathetic response generation that uses three modules—residual-based commonsense interaction, association-guided filtering, and iterative commonsense-aware decoding—to dynamically coordinate commonsense knowledge across understanding and generation stages. Experiments on the Empathetic-Dialogues benchmark show improvements in emotion classification accuracy and response diversity over the CEM baseline. An LLM-based blind evaluation also finds gains in relevance, coherence, and informativeness. Code will be released publicly.