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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Pinqiao Wang , Sheng Li

One of the difficulties in training dialogue systems is the lack of training data. We explore the possibility of creating dialogue data through the interaction between a dialogue system and a user simulator. Our goal is to develop a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Yinpei Dai , Florian Kreyssig , Bill Byrne

Text response generation for multimodal task-oriented dialog systems, which aims to generate the proper text response given the multimodal context, is an essential yet challenging task. Although existing efforts have achieved compelling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xiaolin Chen , Xuemeng Song , Liqiang Jing , Shuo Li , Linmei Hu , Liqiang Nie

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems aim to efficiently handle task-oriented conversations, including information collection. How to utilize TOD accurately, efficiently and effectively for information collection has always been a critical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ming Zhang , Caishuang Huang , Yilong Wu , Shichun Liu , Huiyuan Zheng , Yurui Dong , Yujiong Shen , Shihan Dou , Jun Zhao , Junjie Ye , Qi Zhang , Tao Gui , Xuanjing Huang

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems have been widely used by mobile phone intelligent assistants to accomplish tasks such as calendar scheduling or hotel reservation. Current TOD systems usually focus on multi-turn text/speech interaction,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Liangtai Sun , Xingyu Chen , Lu Chen , Tianle Dai , Zichen Zhu , Kai Yu

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems facilitate users in executing various activities via multi-turn dialogues, but Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle to comprehend these intricate contexts. In this study, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Haoyu Gao , Ting-En Lin , Hangyu Li , Min Yang , Yuchuan Wu , Wentao Ma , Yongbin Li

Multi-modal dialog modeling is of growing interest. In this work, we propose frameworks to resolve a specific case of multi-modal dialog generation that better mimics multi-modal dialog generation in the real world, where each dialog turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Shuhe Wang , Yuxian Meng , Xiaofei Sun , Fei Wu , Rongbin Ouyang , Rui Yan , Tianwei Zhang , Jiwei Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities in mathematical and scientific tasks. To enhance complex reasoning, multi-agent systems have been proposed to harness the collective intelligence of LLM agents.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zhenyu Bi , Meng Lu , Yang Li , Swastik Roy , Weijie Guan , Morteza Ziyadi , Xuan Wang

Developing language model-based dialogue agents requires effective data to train models that can follow specific task logic. However, most existing data simulation methods focus on increasing diversity in language, topics, or dialogue acts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Wanyu Du , Song Feng , James Gung , Lijia Sun , Yi Zhang , Saab Mansour , Yanjun Qi

Persuasive dialogue generation plays a vital role in decision-making, negotiation, counseling, and behavior change, yet it remains a challenging problem. In complex persuasion where the persuadee's internal states are not expressed clearly,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Dingyi Zhang , Ziqing Zhuang , Linhai Zhang , Ziyang Gao , Deyu Zhou

Task-oriented dialogue is difficult in part because it involves understanding user intent, collecting information from the user, executing API calls, and generating helpful and fluent responses. However, for complex tasks one must also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Stefania Raimondo , Christopher Pal , Xiaotian Liu , David Vazquez , Hector Palacios

Even though machine learning has become the major scene in dialogue research community, the real breakthrough has been blocked by the scale of data available. To address this fundamental obstacle, we introduce the Multi-Domain Wizard-of-Oz…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Paweł Budzianowski , Tsung-Hsien Wen , Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Iñigo Casanueva , Stefan Ultes , Osman Ramadan , Milica Gašić

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) offer a powerful paradigm for solving complex problems, yet their performance is critically dependent on the design of their underlying collaboration topology. As MAS become increasingly deployed in web services…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shiyuan Li , Yixin Liu , Yu Zheng , Mei Li , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Shirui Pan

Building an intelligent dialogue system with the ability to select a proper response according to a multi-turn context is a great challenging task. Existing studies focus on building a context-response matching model with various neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Ruijian Xu , Chongyang Tao , Daxin Jiang , Xueliang Zhao , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Attention-based pre-trained language models such as GPT-2 brought considerable progress to end-to-end dialogue modelling. However, they also present considerable risks for task-oriented dialogue, such as lack of knowledge grounding or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Jonáš Kulhánek , Vojtěch Hudeček , Tomáš Nekvinda , Ondřej Dušek

Scarcity of training data for task-oriented dialogue systems is a well known problem that is usually tackled with costly and time-consuming manual data annotation. An alternative solution is to rely on automatic text generation which,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Alice Coucke , Francesco Caltagirone , Alexandre Caulier , Marc Lelarge

Open-domain conversation models have become good at generating natural-sounding dialogue, using very large architectures with billions of trainable parameters. The vast training data required to train these architectures aggregates many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Eric Michael Smith , Diana Gonzalez-Rico , Emily Dinan , Y-Lan Boureau

Language models pre-trained on general text have achieved impressive results in diverse fields. Yet, the distinct linguistic characteristics of task-oriented dialogues (TOD) compared to general text limit the practical utility of existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Weihao Zeng , Dayuan Fu , Keqing He , Yejie Wang , Yukai Xu , Weiran Xu

Multi-Agent Debate (MAD) is a collaborative framework in which multiple agents iteratively refine solutions through the generation of reasoning and alternating critique cycles. Current work primarily optimizes intra-round topologies and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yiqing Liu , Hantao Yao , Wu Liu , Allen He , Yongdong Zhang

Algorithms for text-generation in dialogue can be misguided. For example, in task-oriented settings, reinforcement learning that optimizes only task-success can lead to abysmal lexical diversity. We hypothesize this is due to poor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Anthony Sicilia , Malihe Alikhani