METRO: Towards Strategy Induction from Expert Dialogue Transcripts for Non-collaborative Dialogues
arXiv cs.CL / 4/14/2026
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Key Points
- The paper proposes METRO, a method that uses large language models to automatically induce both dialogue strategy actions and planning logic from expert non-collaborative dialogue transcripts, reducing reliance on manual codification.
- METRO represents expert knowledge as a hierarchical “Strategy Forest,” combining short-term response patterns with longer-horizon strategic foresight via branching structure.
- Experiments on two benchmarks indicate METRO achieves average performance gains of about 9%-10% over existing approaches.
- The authors find that METRO’s effectiveness is linked to strategic behavioral diversity and foresight, and that the learned strategies transfer robustly across different tasks.
- The authors provide an open-source codebase at the linked GitHub repository to support reproducibility and further development.



