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Use Interactive learning to continuously validate and improve the performance of your AI Assistant using machine learning based open source dialogue management.
This page shows how to use interactive learning on the command line.
In interactive learning mode, you provide feedback to your bot while you talk to it. This is a powerful way to explore what your bot can do, and the easiest way to fix any mistakes it makes. One advantage of machine learning-based dialogue is that when your bot doesn't know how to do something yet, you can just teach it! Some people call this Software 2.0.
Note
Rasa X provides a UI for interactive learning, and you can use any user conversation as a starting point. See Annotate Conversations in the Rasa X docs.
Run the following command to start interactive learning:
rasa run actions --actions actions&
rasa interactive \
-m models/20190515-135859.tar.gz \
--endpoints endpoints.ymlThe first command starts the action server (see custom-actions).
The second command starts interactive learning mode.
In interactive mode, Rasa will ask you to confirm every prediction made by NLU and Core before proceeding. Here's an example:
Bot loaded. Type a message and press enter (use '/stop' to exit).
? Next user input: hello
? Is the NLU classification for 'hello' with intent 'hello' correct? Yes
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Chat History
# Bot You
────────────────────────────────────────────
1 action_listen
────────────────────────────────────────────
2 hello
intent: hello 1.00
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? The bot wants to run 'utter_greet', correct? (Y/n)The chat history and slot values are printed to the screen, which should be all the information your need to decide what the correct next action is.
In this case, the bot chose the right action (utter_greet), so we type y. Then we type y again, because action_listen is the correct action after greeting. We continue this loop, chatting with the bot, until the bot chooses the wrong action.
For this example we are going to use the concertbot example, so make sure you have the domain & data for it. You can download the data from our github repo.
If you ask /search_concerts, the bot should suggest action_search_concerts and then action_listen (the confidence at which the policy selected its next action will be displayed next to the action name). Now let's enter /compare_reviews as the next user message. The bot might choose the wrong one out of the two possibilities (depending on the training run, it might also be correct):
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Chat History
# Bot You
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
1 action_listen
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
2 /search_concerts
intent: search_concerts 1.00
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
3 action_search_concerts 0.72
action_listen 0.78
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
4 /compare_reviews
intent: compare_reviews 1.00
Current slots:
concerts: None, venues: None
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? The bot wants to run 'action_show_concert_reviews', correct? NoNow we type n, because it chose the wrong action, and we get a new prompt asking for the correct one. This also shows the probabilities the model has assigned to each of the actions:
? What is the next action of the bot? (Use arrow keys)
❯ 0.53 action_show_venue_reviews
0.46 action_show_concert_reviews
0.00 utter_goodbye
0.00 action_search_concerts
0.00 utter_greet
0.00 action_search_venues
0.00 action_listen
0.00 utter_youarewelcome
0.00 utter_default
0.00 action_default_fallback
0.00 action_restartIn this case, the bot should action_show_concert_reviews (rather than venue reviews!) so we select that action.
Now we can keep talking to the bot for as long as we like to create a longer conversation. At any point you can press Ctrl-C and the bot will provide you with exit options. You can write your newly-created stories and NLU data to files. You can also go back a step if you made a mistake when providing feedback.
Make sure to combine the dumped stories and NLU examples with your original training data for the next training.
During the interactive learning, Rasa will plot the current conversation and a few similar conversations from the training data to help you keep track of where you are.
You can view the visualization at http://localhost:5005/visualization.html as soon as you've started interactive learning.
To skip the visualization, run rasa interactive --skip-visualization.
If you're using a FormAction, there are some additional things to keep in mind when using interactive learning.
The form logic is described by your FormAction class, and not by the stories. The machine learning policies should not have to learn this behavior, and should not get confused if you later change your form action, for example by adding or removing a required slot. When you use interactive learning to generate stories containing a form, the conversation steps handled by the form get a form: prefix. This tells Rasa Core to ignore these steps when training your other policies. There is nothing special you have to do here, all of the form's happy paths are still covered by the basic story given in forms.
Here is an example:
* request_restaurant
- restaurant_form
- form{"name": "restaurant_form"}
- slot{"requested_slot": "cuisine"}
* form: inform{"cuisine": "mexican"}
- slot{"cuisine": "mexican"}
- form: restaurant_form
- slot{"cuisine": "mexican"}
- slot{"requested_slot": "num_people"}
* form: inform{"number": "2"}
- form: restaurant_form
- slot{"num_people": "2"}
- form{"name": null}
- slot{"requested_slot": null}
- utter_slots_valuesEvery time the user responds with something other than the requested slot or any of the required slots, you will be asked whether you want the form action to try and extract a slot from the user's message when returning to the form. This is best explained with and example:
7 restaurant_form 1.00
slot{"num_people": "3"}
slot{"requested_slot": "outdoor_seating"}
do you want to sit outside?
action_listen 1.00
- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- 8 /stop
intent: stop 1.00
- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- 9 utter_ask_continue 1.00
do you want to continue? action_listen 1.00
- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- 10 /affirm
intent: affirm 1.00
- Current slots:
cuisine: greek, feedback: None, num_people: 3, outdoor_seating: None,
preferences: None, requested_slot: outdoor_seating
------2018-11-05 21:36:53 DEBUG rasa.core.tracker_store - Recreating tracker for id 'default' ? The bot wants to run 'restaurant_form', correct? Yes 2018-11-05 21:37:08 DEBUG rasa.core.tracker_store - Recreating tracker for id 'default' ? Should 'restaurant_form' validate user input to fill the slot 'outdoor_seating'? (Y/n)
Here the user asked to stop the form, and the bot asks the user whether they're sure they don't want to continue. The user says they want to continue (the /affirm intent). Here outdoor_seating has a from_intent slot mapping (mapping the /affirm intent to True), so this user input could be used to fill that slot. However, in this case the user is just responding to the "do you want to continue?" question and so you select n, the user input should not be validated. The bot will then continue to ask for the outdoor_seating slot again.
Warning
If there is a conflicting story in your training data, i.e. you just chose to validate the input (meaning it will be printed with the forms: prefix), but your stories file contains the same story where you don't validate the input (meaning it's without the forms: prefix), you will need to make sure to remove this conflicting story. When this happens, there is a warning prompt that reminds you to do this:
WARNING: FormPolicy predicted no form validation based on previous training stories. Make sure to remove contradictory stories from training data
Once you've removed that story, you can press enter and continue with interactive learning