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In spoken dialogue systems, we aim to deploy artificial intelligence to build automated dialogue agents that can converse with humans. Dialogue systems are increasingly being designed to move beyond just imitating conversation and also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Atharv Singh Patlan , Shiven Tripathi , Shubham Korde

While multimodal conversation agents are gaining importance in several domains such as retail, travel etc., deep learning research in this area has been limited primarily due to the lack of availability of large-scale, open chatlogs. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Amrita Saha , Mitesh Khapra , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

High-quality dialogue is crucial for e-commerce customer service, yet traditional intent-based systems struggle with dynamic, multi-turn interactions. We present MindFlow+, a self-evolving dialogue agent that learns domain-specific behavior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Ming Gong , Xucheng Huang , Ziheng Xu , Vijayan K. Asari

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized Natural Language Processing but exhibit limitations, particularly in autonomously addressing novel challenges such as reasoning and problem-solving. Traditional techniques like…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Sumedh Rasal

Conversational systems use spoken language to interact with their users. Although conversational systems, such as Amazon Alexa, are becoming common and afford interesting functionalities, there is little known about the issues users of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Soodeh Atefi , Andrew Truelove , Matheus Rheinschmitt , Eduardo Almeida , Iftekhar Ahmed , Amin Alipour

Some robots can interact with humans using natural language, and identify service requests through human-robot dialog. However, few robots are able to improve their language capabilities from this experience. In this paper, we develop a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Saeid Amiri , Sujay Bajracharya , Cihangir Goktolga , Jesse Thomason , Shiqi Zhang

Spurred by recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), virtual assistants are poised to take a leap forward in terms of their dialogue capabilities. Yet a major bottleneck to achieving genuinely transformative task-oriented dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Joe Stacey , Jianpeng Cheng , John Torr , Tristan Guigue , Joris Driesen , Alexandru Coca , Mark Gaynor , Anders Johannsen

The goal of building dialogue agents that can converse with humans naturally has been a long-standing dream of researchers since the early days of artificial intelligence. The well-known Turing Test proposed to judge the ultimate validity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Tom Young

LLM agents are increasingly deployed to plan, retrieve, and write with tools, yet evaluation still leans on static benchmarks and small human studies. We present the Agent-Testing Agent (ATA), a meta-agent that combines static code…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sameer Komoravolu , Khalil Mrini

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks and domains, with data playing a central role in enabling these advances. Despite this success, the preparation and effective utilization of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hao Liang , Zhengyang Zhao , Zhaoyang Han , Meiyi Qiang , Xiaochen Ma , Bohan Zeng , Qifeng Cai , Zhiyu Li , Linpeng Tang , Weinan E , Wentao Zhang

High-fidelity, AI-based simulated classroom systems enable teachers to rehearse effective teaching strategies. However, dialogue-oriented open-ended conversations such as teaching a student about scale factors can be difficult to model.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Debajyoti Datta , Maria Phillips , James P Bywater , Jennifer Chiu , Ginger S. Watson , Laura E. Barnes , Donald E Brown

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in traditional natural language processing tasks but struggle with problems that require complex domain-specific calculations or simulations. While equipping LLMs with external tools to build LLM-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Bohan Lyu , Xin Cong , Heyang Yu , Pan Yang , Yujia Qin , Yining Ye , Yaxi Lu , Zhong Zhang , Yukun Yan , Yankai Lin , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Conversational agents have become ubiquitous, ranging from goal-oriented systems for helping with reservations to chit-chat models found in modern virtual assistants. In this survey paper, we explore this fascinating field. We look at some…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Vinayak Mathur , Arpit Singh

Large language models (LLMs) are poised to revolutionize the domain of online fashion retail, enhancing customer experience and discovery of fashion online. LLM-powered conversational agents introduce a new way of discovery by directly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Antonis Maronikolakis , Ana Peleteiro Ramallo , Weiwei Cheng , Thomas Kober

In this paper, we present a methodology for the development of embodied conversational agents for social virtual worlds. The agents provide multimodal communication with their users in which speech interaction is included. Our proposal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-29 D. Griol , A. Sanchis , J. M. Molina , Z. Callejas

Conversational AI systems have emerged as key enablers of human-like interactions across diverse sectors. Nevertheless, the balance between linguistic nuance and factual accuracy has proven elusive. In this paper, we first introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ahtsham Zafar , Venkatesh Balavadhani Parthasarathy , Chan Le Van , Saad Shahid , Aafaq Iqbal khan , Arsalan Shahid

Deploying conversational voice agents with large language models faces a critical challenge: cloud-based foundation models provide deep reasoning and domain knowledge but introduce latency that disrupts natural conversation, while on-device…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Vidya Srinivas , Zachary Englhardt , Maximus Powers , Shwetak Patel , Vikram Iyer

Large Language Models (LLMs) are being increasingly employed in data science for tasks like data preprocessing and analytics. However, data scientists encounter substantial obstacles when conversing with LLM-powered chatbots and acting on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Bhavya Chopra , Ananya Singha , Anna Fariha , Sumit Gulwani , Chris Parnin , Ashish Tiwari , Austin Z. Henley

How to build and use dialogue data efficiently, and how to deploy models in different domains at scale can be two critical issues in building a task-oriented dialogue system. In this paper, we propose a novel manual-guided dialogue scheme…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Ryuichi Takanobu , Hao Zhou , Yankai Lin , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Minlie Huang

This paper formalises the literature on emerging design patterns and paradigms for Large Language Model (LLM)-enabled multi-agent systems (MAS), evaluating their practical utility across various domains. We define key architectural…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Harri Renney , Maxim N Nethercott , Nathan Renney , Peter Hayes