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Knowledge is attributed to human whose problem-solving behavior is subjective and complex. In today's knowledge economy, the need to manage knowledge produced by a community of actors cannot be overemphasized. This is due to the fact that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-12-16 Bolanle Oladejo , Victor Odumuyiwa , Amos David

LLM-empowered multi-agent systems offer new potential to accelerate scientific discovery by generating novel research ideas. However, existing methods typically coordinate agents through temporary texts, such as drafts or chat logs; it is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jiangwen Dong , Bo Li , Wanyu Lin

In the midst of widespread misinformation and disinformation through social media and the proliferation of AI-generated texts, it has become increasingly difficult for people to validate and trust information they encounter. Many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu , Himanshu Naidu , Mouly Dewan , YoungMin Kim , Tanya Roosta , Aman Chadha , Chirag Shah

Causal discovery through experimentation and intervention is fundamental to robust problem solving. It requires not just updating beliefs within a fixed framework but revising the hypothesis space itself, a capacity current AI agents lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 John Alderete , Sebastian Benthal , Connie Xu , John Xing

Large Language Models (LLMs) may suffer from hallucinations in real-world applications due to the lack of relevant knowledge. In contrast, knowledge graphs encompass extensive, multi-relational structures that store a vast array of symbolic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Jie Ma , Zhitao Gao , Qi Chai , Wangchun Sun , Pinghui Wang , Hongbin Pei , Jing Tao , Lingyun Song , Jun Liu , Chen Zhang , Lizhen Cui

Argumentation is a very active research field of Artificial Intelligence concerned with the representation and evaluation of arguments used in dialogues between humans and/or artificial agents. Acceptability semantics of formal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zlatina Mileva , Antonis Bikakis , Fabio Aurelio D'Asaro , Mark Law , Alessandra Russo

Knowledge graphs represent factual knowledge about the world as relationships between concepts and are critical for intelligent decision making in enterprise applications. New knowledge is inferred from the existing facts in the knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Peru Bhardwaj

While multi-agent debate has been proposed as a promising strategy for improving AI reasoning ability, we find that debate can sometimes be harmful rather than helpful. Prior work has primarily focused on debates within homogeneous groups…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Andrea Wynn , Harsh Satija , Gillian Hadfield

The right to contest a decision with consequences on individuals or the society is a well-established democratic right. Despite this right also being explicitly included in GDPR in reference to automated decision-making, its study seems to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Andrea Aler Tubella , Andreas Theodorou , Virginia Dignum , Loizos Michael

During the past few decades, knowledge bases (KBs) have experienced rapid growth. Nevertheless, most KBs still suffer from serious incompletion. Researchers proposed many tasks such as knowledge base completion and relation prediction to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Zihao Fu , Yankai Lin , Zhiyuan Liu , Wai Lam

This study addresses the challenge of forming effective groups in collaborative problem-solving environments. Recognizing the complexity of human interactions and the necessity for efficient collaboration, we propose a novel approach…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zheng Fang , Fucai Ke , Jae Young Han , Zhijie Feng , Toby Cai

As the Internet and social media evolve rapidly, distinguishing credible news from a vast amount of complex information poses a significant challenge. Due to the suddenness and instability of news events, the authenticity labels of news can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Di Jin , Jun Yang , Xiaobao Wang , Junwei Zhang , Shuqi Li , Dongxiao He

The automation of the medical evidence acquisition and diagnosis process has recently attracted increasing attention in order to reduce the workload of doctors and democratize access to medical care. However, most works proposed in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Arsene Fansi Tchango , Rishab Goel , Julien Martel , Zhi Wen , Gaetan Marceau Caron , Joumana Ghosn

Scalable oversight protocols aim to enable humans to accurately supervise superhuman AI. In this paper we study debate, where two AI's compete to convince a judge; consultancy, where a single AI tries to convince a judge that asks…

Recent work has proposed multi-hop models and datasets for studying complex natural language reasoning. One notable task requiring multi-hop reasoning is fact checking, where a set of connected evidence pieces leads to the final verdict of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Wojciech Ostrowski , Arnav Arora , Pepa Atanasova , Isabelle Augenstein

The use of language-model-based question-answering systems to aid humans in completing difficult tasks is limited, in part, by the unreliability of the text these systems generate. Using hard multiple-choice reading comprehension questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Alicia Parrish , Harsh Trivedi , Nikita Nangia , Vishakh Padmakumar , Jason Phang , Amanpreet Singh Saimbhi , Samuel R. Bowman

We formulate the problem of fake news detection using distributed fact-checkers (agents) with unknown reliability. The stream of news/statements is modeled as an independent and identically distributed binary source (to represent true and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Ashwin Verma , Soheil Mohajer , Behrouz Touri

This paper proposes an iterative inference algorithm for multi-hop explanation regeneration, that retrieves relevant factual evidence in the form of text snippets, given a natural language question and its answer. Combining multiple sources…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Ruben Cartuyvels , Graham Spinks , Marie-Francine Moens

The emergence of collective dynamics in neural networks is a mechanism of the animal and human brain for information processing. In this paper, we develop a computational technique using distributed processing elements in a complex network,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Filipe Alves Neto Verri , Paulo Roberto Urio , Liang Zhao

We investigate the characteristics of factual and emotional argumentation styles observed in online debates. Using an annotated set of "factual" and "feeling" debate forum posts, we extract patterns that are highly correlated with factual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Shereen Oraby , Lena Reed , Ryan Compton , Ellen Riloff , Marilyn Walker , Steve Whittaker