# Knover

**Repository Path**: mirrors_PaddlePaddle/Knover

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: Knover
- **Description**: Large-scale open domain KNOwledge grounded conVERsation system based on PaddlePaddle
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: develop
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 2
- **Forks**: 2
- **Created**: 2020-11-23
- **Last Updated**: 2025-09-14

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# Knover
Knover is a toolkit for knowledge grounded dialogue generation based on PaddlePaddle. Knover allows researchers and developers to carry out efficient training/inference of large-scale dialogue generation models. 

### What's New:

* October 2022: We are opening [Q-TOD](projects/Q-TOD/README.md), a novel query-driven task-oriented dialogue system.
* March 2022: We are opening [PLATO-KAG](projects/PLATO-KAG/README.md), an unsupervised learning approach for end-to-end knowledge-grounded conversation modeling.
* February 2022: We are opening our TOD-DA dataset, models and code in [DSTC10-Track2](projects/DSTC10-Track2/README.md).
* December 2021: We are opening the dialogue generation model of [PLATO-XL](projects/PLATO-XL/README.md), with up to 11 billion parameters.
* October 2021: We are opening [AG-DST](projects/AG-DST/README.md), an amendable generation for dialogue state tracking.
* February 2021: We are opening our implementation (Team 19) in [DSTC9-Track1](projects/DSTC9-Track1/README.md).
* July 2020: We are opening [PLATO-2](projects/PLATO-2/README.md), a large-scale generative model with latent space for open-domain dialogue systems.

## Requirements and Installation

* python version >= 3.7
* paddlepaddle-gpu version >= 2.4.0
    * You can install PaddlePaddle following [the instructions](https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/documentation/docs/en/install/index_en.html).
    * The specific version of PaddlePaddle is also based on your [CUDA version](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads) (recommended version: 10.1) and [CuDNN version](https://developer.nvidia.com/rdp/cudnn-download) (recommended version: 7.6). See more information on [PaddlePaddle document about GPU support](https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/documentation/docs/en/install/index_en.html#paddlepaddle-s-support-for-gpu)
* sentencepiece
* termcolor
* If you want to run distributed training, you'll also need [NCCL](https://developer.nvidia.com/nccl/nccl-download)
* Install Knover locally:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Knover.git
cd Knover
pip3 install -e .
```

* Or you can setup `PYTHONPATH` only:

```bash
export PYTHONPATH=/abs/path/to/Knover:$PYTHONPATH
```

## Basic usage

- See [usage document](docs/usage.md).

## Disclaimer
This project aims to facilitate further research progress in dialogue generation. Baidu is not responsible for the 3rd party's generation with the pre-trained system.

## Contact information
For help or issues using Knover, please submit a GitHub issue.