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Deep learning stands at the forefront in many computer vision tasks. However, deep neural networks are usually data-hungry and require a huge amount of well-annotated training samples. Collecting sufficient annotated data is very expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Yun Liu , Yujun Shi , JiaWang Bian , Le Zhang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiashi Feng

Conversational systems are of primary interest in the AI community. Chatbots are increasingly being deployed to provide round-the-clock support and to increase customer engagement. Many of the commercial bot building frameworks follow a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ajay Chatterjee , Shubhashis Sengupta

We have seen significant leapfrog advancement in machine learning in recent decades. The central idea of machine learnability lies on constructing learning algorithms that learn from good data. The availability of more data being made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Ng Hui Xian Lynnette , Henry Ng Siong Hock , Nguwi Yok Yen

User intent understanding is a crucial step in designing both conversational agents and search engines. Detecting or inferring user intent is challenging, since the user utterances or queries can be short, ambiguous, and contextually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Ali Ahmadvand

Modern task-oriented dialog systems need to reliably understand users' intents. Intent detection is most challenging when moving to new domains or new languages, since there is little annotated data. To address this challenge, we present a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Li Zhang , Qing Lyu , Chris Callison-Burch

To effectively express and satisfy network application requirements, intent-based network management has emerged as a promising solution. In intent-based methods, users and applications express their intent in a high-level abstract language…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Salwa Mostafa , Mohammed S. Elbamby , Mohamed K. Abdel-Aziz , Mehdi Bennis

Emotion and intent recognition from speech is essential and has been widely investigated in human-computer interaction. The rapid development of social media platforms, chatbots, and other technologies has led to a large volume of speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhao Ren , Rathi Adarshi Rammohan , Kevin Scheck , Sheng Li , Tanja Schultz

Accurate prediction of the user intent to interact with a voice assistant (VA) on a device (e.g. on the phone) is critical for achieving naturalistic, engaging, and privacy-centric interactions with the VA. To this end, we present a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Pranay Dighe , Prateeth Nayak , Oggi Rudovic , Erik Marchi , Xiaochuan Niu , Ahmed Tewfik

Current Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents operate primarily under a reactive paradigm: a user must provide an explicit instruction for the agent to execute a task. However, an intelligent AI assistant should be proactive, which is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuxiang Chai , Shunye Tang , Han Xiao , Rui Liu , Hongsheng Li

Community based question answering services have arisen as a popular knowledge sharing pattern for netizens. With abundant interactions among users, individuals are capable of obtaining satisfactory information. However, it is not effective…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Zheqian Chen , Ben Gao , Huimin Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Deng Cai

The rise of personal assistant agents, e.g., OpenClaw, highlights the growing potential of large language models to support users across everyday life and work. A core challenge in these settings is proactive assistance, since users often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Haoran Zhang , Luxin Xu , Zhilin Wang , Runquan Gui , Shunkai Zhang , Haodi Lei , Zihao He , Bingsu He , Chicheng Qin , Tong Zhu , Xiaoye Qu , Yang Yang , Yu Cheng , Yafu Li

Many real-world tasks involve a mixed-initiative setup, wherein humans and AI systems collaboratively perform a task. While significant work has been conducted towards enabling humans to specify, through language, exactly how an agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Pradyumna Tambwekar , Lakshita Dodeja , Nathan Vaska , Wei Xu , Matthew Gombolay

Accurately predicting the intent of customer support requests is vital for efficient support systems, enabling agents to quickly understand messages and prioritize responses accordingly. While different approaches exist for intent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Nichal Narotamo , David Aparicio , Tiago Mesquita , Mariana Almeida

Intent modelling has become an important part of modern dialogue systems. With the rapid expansion of practical dialogue systems and virtual assistants, such as Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Google Assistant, the interest has only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Sindre André Jacobsen , Anton Ragni

As multimodal large language models advance rapidly, the automation of mobile tasks has become increasingly feasible through the use of mobile-use agents that mimic human interactions from graphical user interface. To further enhance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zheng Wu , Heyuan Huang , Yanjia Yang , Yuanyi Song , Xingyu Lou , Weiwen Liu , Weinan Zhang , Jun Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang

Eye-hand coordinated interaction is becoming a mainstream interaction modality in Virtual Reality (VR) user interfaces.Current paradigms for this multimodal interaction require users to learn predefined gestures and memorize multiple…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhimin Wang , Chenyu Gu , Feng Lu

Semantic communication focuses on transmitting task-relevant semantic information, aiming for intent-oriented communication. While existing systems improve efficiency by extracting key semantics, they still fail to deeply understand and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Peigen Ye , Jingpu Duan , Hongyang Du , Yulan Guo

Collaborative robots became a popular tool for increasing productivity in partly automated manufacturing plants. Intuitive robot teaching methods are required to quickly and flexibly adapt the robot programs to new tasks. Gestures have an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Petr Vanc , Jan Kristof Behrens , Karla Stepanova

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown significant progress in video understanding, yet they face substantial challenges in tasks requiring precise spatiotemporal localization at the instance level. Existing methods primarily rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yiming Zhao , Yu Zeng , Wenxuan Huang , Zhen Fang , Qing Miao , Qisheng Su , Jiawei Zhao , Jiayin Cai , Lin Chen , Zehui Chen , Yukun Qi , Yao Hu , Xiaolong Jiang , Feng Zhao

Real-world requests to AI agents are fundamentally underspecified. Natural human communication relies on shared context and unstated constraints that speakers expect listeners to infer. Current agentic benchmarks test explicit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ved Sirdeshmukh , Marc Wetter