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The primary goal of Motivational Interviewing (MI) is to help clients build their own motivation for behavioral change. To support this in dialogue systems, it is essential to guide large language models (LLMs) to generate counselor…

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In high-stakes domains like legal question-answering, the accuracy and trustworthiness of generative AI systems are of paramount importance. This work presents a comprehensive benchmark of various methods to assess the groundedness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Dietrich Trautmann , Natalia Ostapuk , Quentin Grail , Adrian Alan Pol , Guglielmo Bonifazi , Shang Gao , Martin Gajek

Grounding dialogue response generation on external knowledge is proposed to produce informative and engaging responses. However, current knowledge-grounded dialogue (KGD) systems often fail to align the generated responses with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Bryan Wilie , Yan Xu , Willy Chung , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Holy Lovenia , Pascale Fung

Text-to-image generation and image captioning are recently emerged as a new experimental paradigm to assess machine intelligence. They predict continuous quantity accompanied by their sampling techniques in the generation, making evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Jin-Hwa Kim , Yunji Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Kang Min Yoo , Sang-Woo Lee

Recent advances in maximizing mutual information (MI) between the source and target have demonstrated its effectiveness in text generation. However, previous works paid little attention to modeling the backward network of MI (i.e.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Boyuan Pan , Yazheng Yang , Kaizhao Liang , Bhavya Kailkhura , Zhongming Jin , Xian-Sheng Hua , Deng Cai , Bo Li

Traditional automated metrics for evaluating conditional natural language generation use pairwise comparisons between a single generated text and the best-matching gold-standard ground truth text. When multiple ground truths are available,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-30 David M Chan , Yiming Ni , David A Ross , Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan , Austin Myers , John Canny

We study video-grounded dialogue generation, where a response is generated based on the dialogue context and the associated video. The primary challenges of this task lie in (1) the difficulty of integrating video data into pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xueliang Zhao , Yuxuan Wang , Chongyang Tao , Chenshuo Wang , Dongyan Zhao

Conditional Mutual Information (CMI) is a measure of conditional dependence between random variables X and Y, given another random variable Z. It can be used to quantify conditional dependence among variables in many data-driven inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Sudipto Mukherjee , Himanshu Asnani , Sreeram Kannan

Computing students increasingly rely on generative AI tools for programming assistance, often without formal instruction or guidance. This highlights a need to teach students how to effectively interact with AI models, particularly through…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Victor-Alexandru Pădurean , Paul Denny , Alkis Gotovos , Adish Singla

This work presents an open-source unified benchmarking and evaluation framework for text-to-image generation models, with a particular focus on the impact of metadata augmented prompts. Leveraging the DeepFashion-MultiModal dataset, we…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Kapil Wanaskar , Gaytri Jena , Magdalini Eirinaki

One of the main problems that emerges in the classic approach to semantics is the difficulty in acquisition and maintenance of ontologies and semantic annotations. On the other hand, the Internet explosion and the massive diffusion of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Valentina Franzoni

In this paper, we investigate the use of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT for document-grounded response generation in the context of information-seeking dialogues. For evaluation, we use the MultiDoc2Dial corpus of task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Norbert Braunschweiler , Rama Doddipatla , Simon Keizer , Svetlana Stoyanchev

Mutual information (MI) is a fundamental measure of statistical dependence between two variables, yet accurate estimation from finite data remains notoriously difficult. No estimator is universally reliable, and common approaches fail in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-10-02 Eslam Abdelaleem , K. Michael Martini , Ilya Nemenman

Fake news and misinformation poses a significant threat to society, making efficient mitigation essential. However, manual fact-checking is costly and lacks scalability. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promise in automating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Xiaofei Xu , Xiuzhen Zhang , Ke Deng

In dialogue generation, the naturalness of responses is crucial for effective human-machine interaction. Personalized response generation poses even greater challenges, as the responses must remain coherent and consistent with the user's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Chih-Hao Hsu , Ying-Jia Lin , Hung-Yu Kao

Automatic evaluation metrics are essential for the rapid development of open-domain dialogue systems as they facilitate hyper-parameter tuning and comparison between models. Although recently proposed trainable conversation-level metrics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Sarik Ghazarian , Nuan Wen , Aram Galstyan , Nanyun Peng

Mixed-initiative dialogue tasks involve repeated exchanges of information and conversational control. Conversational agents gain control by generating responses that follow particular dialogue intents or strategies, prescribed by a policy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Maximillian Chen , Xiao Yu , Weiyan Shi , Urvi Awasthi , Zhou Yu

Establishing common ground, a shared set of beliefs and mutually recognized facts, is fundamental to collaboration, yet remains a challenge for current AI systems, especially in multimodal, multiparty settings, where the collaborators bring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yifan Zhu , Mariah Bradford , Kenneth Lai , Timothy Obiso , Videep Venkatesha , James Pustejovsky , Nikhil Krishnaswamy

We introduce a framework for generating highly multimodal datasets with explicitly calculable mutual information (MI) between modalities. This enables the construction of benchmark datasets that provide a novel testbed for systematic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-26 Raheem Karim Hashmani , Garrett W. Merz , Helen Qu , Mariel Pettee , Kyle Cranmer

Mutual Information (MI) is a crucial measure for capturing dependencies between variables, but exact computation is challenging in high dimensions with intractable likelihoods, impacting accuracy and robustness. One idea is to use an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-13 Forough Fazeliasl , Michael Minyi Zhang , Bei Jiang , Linglong Kong