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Recently, resources and tasks were proposed to go beyond state tracking in dialogue systems. An example is the frame tracking task, which requires recording multiple frames, one for each user goal set during the dialogue. This allows a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Hannes Schulz , Jeremie Zumer , Layla El Asri , Shikhar Sharma

Existing goal-oriented dialogue datasets focus mainly on identifying slots and values. However, customer support interactions in reality often involve agents following multi-step procedures derived from explicitly-defined company policies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Derek Chen , Howard Chen , Yi Yang , Alex Lin , Zhou Yu

Due to strong capabilities in conducting fluent, multi-turn conversations with users, Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to further improve the performance of Conversational Recommender System (CRS). Unlike the aimless…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Jiabao Fang , Shen Gao , Pengjie Ren , Xiuying Chen , Suzan Verberne , Zhaochun Ren

Building a machine learning driven spoken dialog system for goal-oriented interactions involves careful design of intents and data collection along with development of intent recognition models and dialog policy learning algorithms. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Saurav Sahay , Shachi H Kumar , Eda Okur , Haroon Syed , Lama Nachman

Multi-agent debate has proven effective in improving large language models quality for reasoning and factuality tasks. While various role-playing strategies in multi-agent debates have been explored, in terms of the communication among…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yunxuan Li , Yibing Du , Jiageng Zhang , Le Hou , Peter Grabowski , Yeqing Li , Eugene Ie

Task-oriented dialogue systems often employ a Dialogue State Tracker (DST) to successfully complete conversations. Recent state-of-the-art DST implementations rely on schemata of diverse services to improve model robustness and handle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Eleftherios Kapelonis , Efthymios Georgiou , Alexandros Potamianos

Multi-agent LLM systems increasingly tackle complex reasoning, yet their interaction patterns remain limited to voting, unstructured debate, or pipeline orchestration. None model deliberation: a phased process where differentiated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sunil Prakash

In this paper we focus on the problem of dialog act (DA) labelling. This problem has recently attracted a lot of attention as it is an important sub-part of an automatic question answering system, which is currently in great demand.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Wei Li , Yunfang Wu

Task-oriented dialogue systems help users accomplish tasks such as booking a movie ticket and ordering food via conversation. Generative models parameterized by a deep neural network are widely used for next turn response generation in such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Prasanna Parthasarathi , Arvind Neelakantan , Sharan Narang

The performance of a task-completion dialogue agent usually affects the user experience: when the conversation system yields an unreasonable response, users may feel dissatisfied. Besides, early termination often occurs in disappointing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Rui Zhang , Kai Yin , Li Li

Generative multiagent systems are rapidly emerging as transformative tools for scalable automation and adaptive decisionmaking in telecommunications. Despite their promise, these systems introduce novel risks that remain underexplored,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Zeinab Nezami , Shehr Bano , Abdelaziz Salama , Maryam Hafeez , Syed Ali Raza Zaidi

Recent dialogue coherence models use the coherence features designed for monologue texts, e.g. nominal entities, to represent utterances and then explicitly augment them with dialogue-relevant features, e.g., dialogue act labels. It…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Mohsen Mesgar , Sebastian Bücker , Iryna Gurevych

Investigating cooperativity of interlocutors is central in studying pragmatics of dialogue. Models of conversation that only assume cooperative agents fail to explain the dynamics of strategic conversations. Thus, we investigate the ability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Anthony Sicilia , Tristan Maidment , Pat Healy , Malihe Alikhani

Open-domain dialogue systems have seen remarkable advancements with the development of large language models (LLMs). Nonetheless, most existing dialogue systems predominantly focus on brief single-session interactions, neglecting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Hao Li , Chenghao Yang , An Zhang , Yang Deng , Xiang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Learning an efficient manager of dialogue agent from data with little manual intervention is important, especially for goal-oriented dialogues. However, existing methods either take too many manual efforts (e.g. reinforcement learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Zhuoxuan Jiang , Xian-Ling Mao , Ziming Huang , Jie Ma , Shaochun Li

Autonomous navigation in crowded, complex urban environments requires interacting with other agents on the road. A common solution to this problem is to use a prediction model to guess the likely future actions of other agents. While this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Xiaoyi Chen , Pratik Chaudhari

The control of a single agent in complex and uncertain multi-agent environments requires careful consideration of the interactions between the agents. In this context, this paper proposes a dual model predictive control (MPC) method using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 T. M. J. T. Baltussen , A. Katriniok , E. Lefeber , R. Tóth , W. P. M. H. Heemels

This paper proposes and analyzes a novel multi-agent opinion dynamics model in which agents have access to actions which are quantized version of the opinions of their neighbors. The model produces different behaviors observed in social…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-02-08 N. R. Chowdhury , I. -C. Morarescu , S. Martin , S. Srikant

Task oriented dialog agents provide a natural language interface for users to complete their goal. Dialog State Tracking (DST), which is often a core component of these systems, tracks the system's understanding of the user's goal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Adarsh Kumar , Peter Ku , Anuj Kumar Goyal , Angeliki Metallinou , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

The task-oriented spoken dialogue system (SDS) aims to assist a human user in accomplishing a specific task (e.g., hotel booking). The dialogue management is a core part of SDS. There are two main missions in dialogue management: dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Zhi Chen , Lu Chen , Xiaoyuan Liu , Kai Yu