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Progress_11/09
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## Reward Design Study
- The goal is to improve a dialogue model’s ability to engage in natural conversation with a human by learning from the implicit signals in the response.
- We noted that psychologists have identified:
  1. the importance of **emotion** in creating a <font color="#3338FF">sense of understanding</font>; 
  
  2. **asking questions** is an important active <font color="#3338FF">listening skill</font>;
  ![](https://i.imgur.com/beeEWue.png)

  3. eliciting longer conversations can be a <font color="#3338FF">signal of engagement</font>;
  ![](https://i.imgur.com/5zCjPT2.png)

  4. **reducing repetition** and increasing specificity on the part of the model can improve conversation quality;
  
  5. **prevent** models from generating **harmful outputs**.

  ![](https://i.imgur.com/2xxSiTw.png)
