microsoft/DialoGPT

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DialoGPT is a large-scale pretrained dialogue response generation model from Microsoft, based on GPT-2 and trained on 147M multi-turn Reddit conversations. The repository provides training code, data extraction scripts, and pretrained small/medium/large model checkpoints, though the project is now superseded by GODEL.

Use cases

• generate conversational responses with a pretrained chatbot model
• fine-tune a dialogue model on my own conversation data
• reproduce DialoGPT results for a research paper
• build a single-turn chatbot in PyTorch
• download pretrained dialogue model checkpoints
• extract and process Reddit dialogue data for training

When to choose

• you need reproducibility of the original DialoGPT paper results
• you want a lightweight GPT-2-based chatbot baseline for research
• you need pretrained dialogue checkpoints in 117M/345M/762M sizes

When to avoid

• you want the best dialogue quality - use GODEL or a modern LLM instead
• you need production-grade multi-turn conversation with safety features
• you want an actively maintained project

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

llm-training machine-learning chatbot nlp large-language-models chatbots machine-learning python dialogue-generation gpt-2 pytorch pretrained-model response-generation reddit-data superseded-by-godel natural-language-processing gpu linux

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