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Intelligent agents that are confronted with novel concepts in situated environments will need to ask their human teammates questions to learn about the physical world. To better understand this problem, we need data about asking questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Felix Gervits , Antonio Roque , Gordon Briggs , Matthias Scheutz , Matthew Marge

In this report, we describe the vision, challenges, and scientific contributions of the Task Wizard team, TWIZ, in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2022. Our vision, is to build TWIZ bot as an helpful, multimodal, knowledgeable, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Rafael Ferreira , Diogo Tavares , Diogo Silva , Rodrigo Valério , João Bordalo , Inês Simões , Vasco Ramos , David Semedo , João Magalhães

Chatbots via large language models (LLMs) generate fluent responses but often struggle with when to speak, especially for brief, timely listener reactions during ongoing dialogue. We present a multimodal strategy for LLMs, which leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zikai Liao , Yi Ouyang , Yi-Lun Lee , Chen-Ping Yu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Zhaozheng Yin

Multimodal signals, including text, audio, image, and video, can be integrated into Semantic Communication (SC) systems to provide an immersive experience with low latency and high quality at the semantic level. However, the multimodal SC…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Feibo Jiang , Li Dong , Yubo Peng , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan , Xiaohu You

Connecting text and visual modalities plays an essential role in generative intelligence. For this reason, inspired by the success of large language models, significant research efforts are being devoted to the development of Multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Davide Caffagni , Federico Cocchi , Luca Barsellotti , Nicholas Moratelli , Sara Sarto , Lorenzo Baraldi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Marcella Cornia , Rita Cucchiara

Existing multimodal task-oriented dialog data fails to demonstrate the diverse expressions of user subjective preferences and recommendation acts in the real-life shopping scenario. This paper introduces a new dataset SURE (Multimodal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yuxing Long , Binyuan Hui , Caixia Yuan1 , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li , Xiaojie Wang

Social interactions dominate our perceptions of the world and shape our daily behavior by attaching social meaning to acts as simple and spontaneous as gestures, facial expressions, voice, and speech. People mimic and otherwise respond to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Xiang Zhang , Xiaotian Li , Taoyue Wang , Nan Bi , Xin Zhou , Cody Zhou , Zoie Wang , Andrew Yang , Yuming Su , Jeff Cohn , Qiang Ji , Lijun Yin

Multimodal systems have great potential to assist humans in procedural activities, where people follow instructions to achieve their goals. Despite diverse application scenarios, systems are typically evaluated on traditional classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Kimihiro Hasegawa , Wiradee Imrattanatrai , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Masaki Asada , Susan Holm , Yuran Wang , Ken Fukuda , Teruko Mitamura

A long-standing goal of the research community is to develop highly interactive LLM-based dialogue agents. Recent research focuses on optimizing policies based on fixed offline logs (Static Context RL) or using a prompt-based simulator…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xiaohua Wang , Jiakang Yuan , Zisu Huang , Muzhao Tian , Changze Lv , Kaitao Song , Tao Chen , Xiaoqing Zheng

Physical environments and circumstances are fundamentally dynamic, yet current 3D datasets and evaluation benchmarks tend to concentrate on either dynamic scenarios or dynamic situations in isolation, resulting in incomplete comprehension.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ruiping Liu , Junwei Zheng , Yufan Chen , Zirui Wang , Kunyu Peng , Kailun Yang , Jiaming Zhang , Marc Pollefeys , Rainer Stiefelhagen

The ability to perform complex tasks from detailed instructions is a key to many remarkable achievements of our species. As humans, we are not only capable of performing a wide variety of tasks but also very complex ones that may entail…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Xiaoxuan Lei , Lucas Gomez , Hao Yuan Bai , Pouya Bashivan

Recent research on instructable agents has used memory-augmented Large Language Models (LLMs) as task planners, a technique that retrieves language-program examples relevant to the input instruction and uses them as in-context examples in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Gabriel Sarch , Sahil Somani , Raghav Kapoor , Michael J. Tarr , Katerina Fragkiadaki

We describe Platform for Situated Intelligence, an open-source framework for multimodal, integrative-AI systems. The framework provides infrastructure, tools, and components that enable and accelerate the development of applications that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Sean Andrist , Dan Bohus

Benefiting from language flexibility and compositionality, humans naturally intend to use language to command an embodied agent for complex tasks such as navigation and object manipulation. In this work, we aim to fill the blank of the last…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Kaizhi Zheng , Xiaotong Chen , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins , Xin Eric Wang

Multimodal interfaces are becoming increasingly ubiquitous with the advent of mobile devices, accessibility considerations, and novel software technologies that combine diverse interaction media. In addition to improving access and delivery…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michael Narayan , Chris Williams , Saverio Perugini , Naren Ramakrishnan

Despite impressive high-level video comprehension, multimodal language models struggle with spatial reasoning across time and space. While current spatial training approaches rely on real-world video data, obtaining diverse footage with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ellis Brown , Arijit Ray , Ranjay Krishna , Ross Girshick , Rob Fergus , Saining Xie

Smart autonomous agents are becoming increasingly important in various real-life applications, including robotics and autonomous vehicles. One crucial skill that these agents must possess is the ability to interact with their surrounding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Niyati Rawal , Roberto Bigazzi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Human communication is inherently multimodal and social: words, prosody, and body language jointly carry intent. Yet most prior systems model human behavior as a translation task co-speech gesture or text-to-motion that maps a fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Juze Zhang , Changan Chen , Xin Chen , Heng Yu , Tiange Xiang , Ali Sartaz Khan , Shrinidhi K. Lakshmikanth , Ehsan Adeli

Embodied agents designed to assist users with tasks must engage in natural language interactions, interpret instructions, execute actions, and communicate effectively to resolve issues. However, collecting large-scale, diverse datasets of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Daniel Philipov , Vardhan Dongre , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Visual question answering and visual dialogue tasks have been increasingly studied in the multimodal field towards more practical real-world scenarios. A more challenging task, audio visual scene-aware dialogue (AVSD), is proposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Yi-Ting Yeh , Tzu-Chuan Lin , Hsiao-Hua Cheng , Yu-Hsuan Deng , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen