English
Related papers

Related papers: PlatoLM: Teaching LLMs in Multi-Round Dialogue via…

200 papers

It is popular lately to train large language models to be used as chat assistants, but in the conversation between the user and the chat assistant, there are prompts, require multi-turns between the chat assistant and the user. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Haun Leung , ZiNan Wang

When employing the Socratic method of teaching, instructors guide students toward solving a problem on their own rather than providing the solution directly. While this strategy can substantially improve learning outcomes, it is usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Erfan Al-Hossami , Razvan Bunescu , Justin Smith , Ryan Teehan

Recent advancements in Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in speech recognition and translation. However, existing models often suffer from a disconnect between perception and expression, resulting…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yueran Hou , Peilei Jia , Zihan Sun , Qihang Lu , Wenbing Yang , Yingming Gao , Ya Li , Jun Gao

There is growing interest in exploring user simulation as an alternative to gathering and scoring real user-chatbot interactions for AI chatbot evaluation. For this purpose, it is important to ensure the realism of the simulation, i.e., the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yu Lu Liu , Hyokun Yun , Tanya Roosta , Ziang Xiao

Simulation is an invaluable tool for developing and evaluating controllers for self-driving cars. Current simulation frameworks are driven by highly-specialist domain specific languages, and so a natural language interface would greatly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Antonio Valerio Miceli-Barone , Alex Lascarides , Craig Innes

This paper introduces ChatbotManip, a novel dataset for studying manipulation in Chatbots. It contains simulated generated conversations between a chatbot and a (simulated) user, where the chatbot is explicitly asked to showcase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jack Contro , Simrat Deol , Yulan He , Martim Brandão

A long-standing challenge in developing accurate recommendation models is simulating user behavior, mainly due to the complex and stochastic nature of user interactions. Towards this, one promising line of work has been the use of Large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Himanshu Thakur , Eshani Agrawal , Smruthi Mukund

Large Language Models are typically trained with next-turn rewards, limiting their ability to optimize for long-term interaction. As a result, they often respond passively to ambiguous or open-ended user requests, failing to help users…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Shirley Wu , Michel Galley , Baolin Peng , Hao Cheng , Gavin Li , Yao Dou , Weixin Cai , James Zou , Jure Leskovec , Jianfeng Gao

Despite broad interest in modeling spoken dialogue agents, most approaches are inherently "half-duplex" -- restricted to turn-based interaction with responses requiring explicit prompting by the user or implicit tracking of interruption or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Bandhav Veluri , Benjamin N Peloquin , Bokai Yu , Hongyu Gong , Shyamnath Gollakota

Building open-domain conversational systems (or chatbots) that produce convincing responses is a recognized challenge. Recent state-of-the-art (SoTA) transformer-based models for the generation of natural language dialogue have demonstrated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Tosin Adewumi , Rickard Brännvall , Nosheen Abid , Maryam Pahlavan , Sana Sabah Sabry , Foteini Liwicki , Marcus Liwicki

The rise of big data has amplified the need for efficient, user-friendly automated machine learning (AutoML) tools. However, the intricacy of understanding domain-specific data and defining prediction tasks necessitates human intervention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Md Mahadi Hassan , Alex Knipper , Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT has increased interest in their use as therapists to address mental health challenges and the widespread lack of access to care. However, experts have emphasized the critical need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yu Ying Chiu , Ashish Sharma , Inna Wanyin Lin , Tim Althoff

We investigate the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to equip neural robotic agents with human-like social and cognitive competencies, for the purpose of open-ended human-robot conversation and collaboration. We introduce a modular and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Philipp Allgeuer , Hassan Ali , Stefan Wermter

Conventional Voice Assistants (VAs) rely on traditional language models to discern user intent and respond to their queries, leading to interactions that often lack a broader contextual understanding, an area in which Large Language Models…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Amama Mahmood , Junxiang Wang , Bingsheng Yao , Dakuo Wang , Chien-Ming Huang

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) demonstrate their potential as educational tutors. However, different tutoring strategies benefit different student personalities, and mismatches can be counterproductive to student outcomes.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Donya Rooein , Sankalan Pal Chowdhury , Mariia Eremeeva , Yuan Qin , Debora Nozza , Mrinmaya Sachan , Dirk Hovy

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

Certain forms of linguistic annotation, like part of speech and semantic tagging, can be automated with high accuracy. However, manual annotation is still necessary for complex pragmatic and discursive features that lack a direct mapping to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Danni Yu , Luyang Li , Hang Su , Matteo Fuoli

This research presents a comprehensive methodology for utilizing an ontology-driven structured prompts system in interplay with ChatGPT, a widely used large language model (LLM). The study develops formal models, both information and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Oleksandr Palagin , Vladislav Kaverinskiy , Anna Litvin , Kyrylo Malakhov

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) leverage natural language interactions for personalized recommendation, yet information-scarce dialogue histories and single-turn recommendation paradigms may severely hinder accurate modeling of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xingyuan Xiang , Xiangchen Pan , Wei Wei

Over the last decade, a wide range of training and deployment strategies for Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged. Among these, the prompting paradigms of Auto-regressive LLMs (AR-LLMs) have catalyzed a significant surge in Artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Xinzhe Li , Ming Liu