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Intent-driven Networks (IDNs) are crucial in enhancing network management efficiency by enabling the translation of high-level intents into executable configurations via a top-down approach. The escalating complexity of network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Shiwen Kou , Chungang Yang , Mingji Wu

The future networks pose intense demands for intelligent and customized designs to cope with the surging network scale, dynamically time-varying environments, diverse user requirements, and complicated manual configuration. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Yudong Huang , Minrui Xu , Xinyuan Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Zehui Xiong , Shuo Wang , Tao Huang

Personal assistant systems, such as Apple Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and Microsoft Cortana, are becoming ever more widely used. Understanding user intent such as clarification questions, potential answers and user feedback in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Liu Yang , Minghui Qiu , Chen Qu , Cen Chen , Jiafeng Guo , Yongfeng Zhang , W. Bruce Croft , Haiqing Chen

Intent-based networking (IBN) solutions to managing complex ICT systems have become one of the key enablers of intelligent and autonomous network management. As the number of machine learning (ML) techniques deployed in IBN increases, it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Mounir Bensalem , Jasenka Dizdarević , Admela Jukan

Open intent detection is a significant problem in natural language understanding, which aims to identify the unseen open intent while ensuring known intent identification performance. However, current methods face two major challenges.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Hanlei Zhang , Hua Xu , Shaojie Zhao , Qianrui Zhou

Intent-based networking (IBN) provides a promising approach for managing networks and orchestrating services in beyond 5G (B5G) deployments using modern service-based architectures. Public safety (PS) services form the basis of keeping…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Kashif Mehmood , David Palma , Katina Kralevska

In a conversation or a dialogue process, attention and intention play intrinsic roles. This paper proposes a neural network based approach that models the attention and intention processes. It essentially consists of three recurrent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Kaisheng Yao , Geoffrey Zweig , Baolin Peng

Intent-based networks (IBNs) are gaining prominence as an innovative technology that automates network operations through high-level request statements, defining what the network should achieve. In this work, we introduce IntAgent, an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Abdelrahman Soliman , Ahmed Refaey , Aiman Erbad , Amr Mohamed

In this paper, we introduce Auto-Intent, a method to adapt a pre-trained large language model (LLM) as an agent for a target domain without direct fine-tuning, where we empirically focus on web navigation tasks. Our approach first discovers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jaekyeom Kim , Dong-Ki Kim , Lajanugen Logeswaran , Sungryull Sohn , Honglak Lee

With recent advancements in the sixth generation (6G) communication technologies, more vertical industries have encountered diverse network services. How to reduce energy consumption is critical to meet the expectation of the quality of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yao Wang , Yijun Yu , Yexing Li , Dong Li , Xiaoxue Zhao , Chungang Yang

This paper proposes a user semantic intent modeling algorithm based on Capsule Networks to address the problem of insufficient accuracy in intent recognition for human-computer interaction. The method represents semantic features in input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Shixiao Wang , Yifan Zhuang , Runsheng Zhang , Zhijun Song

Voice-controlled dialog systems have become immensely popular due to their ability to perform a wide range of actions in response to diverse user queries. These agents possess a predefined set of skills or intents to fulfill specific user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ankan Mullick , Sukannya Purkayastha , Saransh Sharma , Pawan Goyal , Niloy Ganguly

As network systems evolve, there is an escalating demand for automated tools to facilitate efficient management and configuration. This paper explores conflict resolution in Intent-Based Network (IBN) management, an innovative approach that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Idris Cinmere , Kashif Mehmood , Katina Kralevska , Toktam Mahmoodi

Intent detection is a crucial task in any Natural Language Understanding (NLU) system and forms the foundation of a task-oriented dialogue system. To build high-quality real-world conversational solutions for edge devices, there is a need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Vibhav Agarwal , Sudeep Deepak Shivnikar , Sourav Ghosh , Himanshu Arora , Yashwant Saini

Intent-Based Networking (IBN) simplifies network management, but its reliability is challenged by "intent drift", where the network's state gradually deviates from its intended goal, often leading to silent failures. Conventional approaches…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Md. Kamrul Hossain , Walid Aljoby

Current AI interaction models treat the prompt as the primary object of exchange, omitting a critical layer: the user's latent source intent, the goal state preceding and motivating the prompt. Here we introduce Intent Signal Theory (IST),…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Gang Peng

Intent-aware session recommendation (ISR) is pivotal in discerning user intents within sessions for precise predictions. Traditional approaches, however, face limitations due to their presumption of a uniform number of intents across all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Zhu Sun , Hongyang Liu , Xinghua Qu , Kaidong Feng , Yan Wang , Yew-Soon Ong

AI intent alignment, ensuring that AI produces outcomes as intended by users, is a critical challenge in human-AI interaction. The emergence of generative AI, including LLMs, has intensified the significance of this problem, as interactions…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yoonsu Kim , Kihoon Son , Seoyoung Kim , Juho Kim

In this paper, we present a method for correcting automatic speech recognition (ASR) errors using a finite state transducer (FST) intent recognition framework. Intent recognition is a powerful technique for dialog flow management in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Piotr Żelasko , Jan Mizgajski , Mikołaj Morzy , Adrian Szymczak , Piotr Szymański , Łukasz Augustyniak , Yishay Carmiel

Intent detection is a crucial component of modern conversational systems, since accurately identifying user intent at the beginning of a conversation is essential for generating effective responses. Recent efforts have focused on studying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Liang Zhang , Yuan Li , Shijie Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Xitong Li