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In order to better simulate the real human conversation process, models need to generate dialogue utterances based on not only preceding textual contexts but also visual contexts. However, with the development of multi-modal dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Shuhe Wang , Yuxian Meng , Xiaoya Li , Xiaofei Sun , Rongbin Ouyang , Jiwei Li

Current dialogue research primarily studies pairwise (two-party) conversations, and does not address the everyday setting where more than two speakers converse together. In this work, we both collect and evaluate multi-party conversations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Jimmy Wei , Kurt Shuster , Arthur Szlam , Jason Weston , Jack Urbanek , Mojtaba Komeili

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

As human-robot collaboration is becoming more widespread, there is a need for a more natural way of communicating with the robot. This includes combining data from several modalities together with the context of the situation and background…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Petr Vanc , Radoslav Skoviera , Karla Stepanova

Multi-agent distributed collaborative mapping provides comprehensive and efficient representations for robots. However, existing approaches lack instance-level awareness and semantic understanding of environments, limiting their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jianyu Dou , Yinan Deng , Jiahui Wang , Xingsi Tang , Yi Yang , Yufeng Yue

Multi-modal large language models have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot abilities and powerful image-understanding capabilities. However, the existing open-source multi-modal models suffer from the weak capability of multi-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yiming Lei , Zhizheng Yang , Zeming Liu , Haitao Leng , Shaoguo Liu , Tingting Gao , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

In human-robot interactions, human and robot agents maintain internal mental models of their environment, their shared task, and each other. The accuracy of these representations depends on each agent's ability to perform theory of mind,…

Two ways has been discussed to unlock the reasoning capability of a large language model. The first one is prompt engineering and the second one is to combine the multiple inferences of large language models, or the multi-agent discussion.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Qineng Wang , Zihao Wang , Ying Su , Yangqiu Song

This paper presents a research platform that supports spoken dialogue interaction with multiple robots. The demonstration showcases our crafted MultiBot testing scenario in which users can verbally issue search, navigate, and follow…

Optimization is as much about modeling the right problem as solving it. Identifying the right objectives, constraints, and trade-offs demands extensive interaction between researchers and stakeholders. Large language models can empower…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Joshua Drossman , Alexandre Jacquillat , Sébastien Martin

The intelligent dialogue system, aiming at communicating with humans harmoniously with natural language, is brilliant for promoting the advancement of human-machine interaction in the era of artificial intelligence. With the gradually…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Hao Wang , Bin Guo , Yating Zeng , Yasan Ding , Chen Qiu , Ying Zhang , Lina Yao , Zhiwen Yu

We present an architecture for integrating real-time, multimodal input into a computational agent's contextual model. Using a human-avatar interaction in a virtual world, we treat aligned gesture and speech as an ensemble where content may…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Nikhil Krishnaswamy , James Pustejovsky

To build a conversational agent that interacts fluently with humans, previous studies blend knowledge or personal profile into the pre-trained language model. However, the model that considers knowledge and persona at the same time is still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Jungwoo Lim , Myunghoon Kang , Yuna Hur , Seungwon Jung , Jinsung Kim , Yoonna Jang , Dongyub Lee , Hyesung Ji , Donghoon Shin , Seungryong Kim , Heuiseok Lim

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable promise in communicating with humans. Their potential use as artificial partners with humans in sociological experiments involving conversation is an exciting prospect. But how viable is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-04 James Flamino , Mohammed Shahid Modi , Boleslaw K. Szymanski , Brendan Cross , Colton Mikolajczyk

Large language models (LLMs), due to their advanced natural language capabilities, have seen significant success in applications where the user interface is usually a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) agent and engages the user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Fei Wei , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding

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

Task-oriented conversational systems are essential for efficiently addressing diverse user needs, yet their development requires substantial amounts of high-quality conversational data that is challenging and costly to obtain. While large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Zhefan Wang , Ning Geng , Zhiqiang Guo , Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang

Prior work on training generative Visual Dialog models with reinforcement learning(Das et al.) has explored a Qbot-Abot image-guessing game and shown that this 'self-talk' approach can lead to improved performance at the downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Vishvak Murahari , Prithvijit Chattopadhyay , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh , Abhishek Das

Most existing dialogue corpora and models have been designed to fit into 2 predominant categories : task-oriented dialogues portray functional goals, such as making a restaurant reservation or booking a plane ticket, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Armand Stricker , Patrick Paroubek

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