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Large language models (LLMs) are powerful dialogue agents, but specializing them towards fulfilling a specific function can be challenging. Instructing tuning, i.e. tuning models on instruction and sample responses generated by humans…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Dennis Ulmer , Elman Mansimov , Kaixiang Lin , Justin Sun , Xibin Gao , Yi Zhang

Embodied dialogue instruction following requires an agent to complete a complex sequence of tasks from a natural language exchange. The recent introduction of benchmarks (Padmakumar et al., 2022) raises the question of how best to train and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 So Yeon Min , Hao Zhu , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Yonatan Bisk

The majority of conversations a dialogue agent sees over its lifetime occur after it has already been trained and deployed, leaving a vast store of potential training signal untapped. In this work, we propose the self-feeding chatbot, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Braden Hancock , Antoine Bordes , Pierre-Emmanuel Mazaré , Jason Weston

Virtual assistants such as Google Assistant, Alexa and Siri provide a conversational interface to a large number of services and APIs spanning multiple domains. Such systems need to support an ever-increasing number of services with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Abhinav Rastogi , Xiaoxue Zang , Srinivas Sunkara , Raghav Gupta , Pranav Khaitan

Task oriented dialog systems typically first parse user utterances to semantic frames comprised of intents and slots. Previous work on task oriented intent and slot-filling work has been restricted to one intent per query and one slot label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Sonal Gupta , Rushin Shah , Mrinal Mohit , Anuj Kumar , Mike Lewis

Dialogue Act (DA) tagging is crucial for spoken language understanding systems, as it provides a general representation of speakers' intents, not bound to a particular dialogue system. Unfortunately, publicly available data sets with DA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Stefano Mezza , Alessandra Cervone , Giuliano Tortoreto , Evgeny A. Stepanov , Giuseppe Riccardi

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities in the hierarchical decomposition of complex tasks through semantic reasoning. However, their application in embodied systems faces challenges in ensuring reliable execution of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Mingcong Lei , Ge Wang , Yiming Zhao , Zhixin Mai , Qing Zhao , Yao Guo , Zhen Li , Shuguang Cui , Yatong Han , Jinke Ren

Communication stands as a potent mechanism to harmonize the behaviors of multiple agents. However, existing works primarily concentrate on broadcast communication, which not only lacks practicality, but also leads to information redundancy.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Chuxiong Sun , Zehua Zang , Jiabao Li , Jiangmeng Li , Xiao Xu , Rui Wang , Changwen Zheng

In light of recent advances in large language models (LLMs), the expectations for the next generation of virtual assistants include enhanced naturalness and adaptability across diverse usage scenarios. However, the creation of high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yinhong Liu , Yimai Fang , David Vandyke , Nigel Collier

With the advances in deep learning, tremendous progress has been made with chit-chat dialogue systems and task-oriented dialogue systems. However, these two systems are often tackled separately in current methods. To achieve more natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Xinyan Zhao , Bin He , Yasheng Wang , Yitong Li , Fei Mi , Yajiao Liu , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Huanhuan Chen

End-to-end generation-based approaches have been investigated and applied in task-oriented dialogue systems. However, in industrial scenarios, existing methods face the bottlenecks of controllability (e.g., domain-inconsistent responses,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yuncheng Hua , Xiangyu Xi , Zheng Jiang , Guanwei Zhang , Chaobo Sun , Guanglu Wan , Wei Ye

Most prior work in dialogue modeling has been on written conversations mostly because of existing data sets. However, written dialogues are not sufficient to fully capture the nature of spoken conversations as well as the potential speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Seokhwan Kim , Yang Liu , Di Jin , Alexandros Papangelis , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Behnam Hedayatnia , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

The task of predicting dialog acts (DA) based on conversational dialog is a key component in the development of conversational agents. Accurately predicting DAs requires a precise modeling of both the conversation and the global tag…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Pierre Colombo , Emile Chapuis , Matteo Manica , Emmanuel Vignon , Giovanna Varni , Chloe Clavel

This paper summarizes our entries to both subtasks of the first DialDoc shared task which focuses on the agent response prediction task in goal-oriented document-grounded dialogs. The task is split into two subtasks: predicting a span in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Nico Daheim , David Thulke , Christian Dugast , Hermann Ney

Recent end-to-end spoken dialogue models enable natural interaction. However, as user demands become increasingly complex, models that rely solely on conversational abilities often struggle to cope. Incorporating agentic capabilities is…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tianle Liang , Yifu Chen , Shengpeng Ji , Yijun Chen , Zhiyang Jia , Jingyu Lu , Fan Zhuo , Xueyi Pu , Yangzhuo Li , Zhou Zhao

This paper presents VDAct, a dataset for a Video-grounded Dialogue on Event-driven Activities, alongside VDEval, a session-based context evaluation metric specially designed for the task. Unlike existing datasets, VDAct includes longer and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Wiradee Imrattanatrai , Masaki Asada , Kimihiro Hasegawa , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Ken Fukuda , Teruko Mitamura

Proactive dialogue systems, related to a wide range of real-world conversational applications, equip the conversational agent with the capability of leading the conversation direction towards achieving pre-defined targets or fulfilling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yang Deng , Wenqiang Lei , Wai Lam , Tat-Seng Chua

Collection of annotated dialogs for training task-oriented dialog systems have been one of the key bottlenecks in improving current models. While dialog response generation has been widely studied on the agent side, it is not evident if…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Dustin Axman , Avik Ray , Shubham Garg , Jing Huang

The task of predicting dialog acts (DA) based on conversational dialog is a key component in the development of conversational agents. Accurately predicting DAs requires a precise modeling of both the conversation and the global tag…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Pierre Colombo , Emile Chapuis , Matteo Manica , Emmanuel Vignon , Giovanna Varni , Chloe Clavel

Conversational search systems can improve user experience in digital libraries by facilitating a natural and intuitive way to interact with library content. However, most conversational search systems are limited to performing simple tasks…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Souvick Ghosh , Satanu Ghosh , Chirag Shah