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Dialogue models falter in noisy, multi-speaker environments, often producing irrelevant responses and awkward turn-taking. We present AV-Dialog, the first multimodal dialog framework that uses both audio and visual cues to track the target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Tuochao Chen , Bandhav Veluri , Hongyu Gong , Shyamnath Gollakota

Visual question answering and visual dialogue tasks have been increasingly studied in the multimodal field towards more practical real-world scenarios. A more challenging task, audio visual scene-aware dialogue (AVSD), is proposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Yi-Ting Yeh , Tzu-Chuan Lin , Hsiao-Hua Cheng , Yu-Hsuan Deng , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

Dialogue state tracking (DST) aims to extract essential information from multi-turn dialogue situations and take appropriate actions. A belief state, one of the core pieces of information, refers to the subject and its specific content, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Takyoung Kim , Hoonsang Yoon , Yukyung Lee , Pilsung Kang , Misuk Kim

We introduce the task of Visual Dialog, which requires an AI agent to hold a meaningful dialog with humans in natural, conversational language about visual content. Specifically, given an image, a dialog history, and a question about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Abhishek Das , Satwik Kottur , Khushi Gupta , Avi Singh , Deshraj Yadav , José M. F. Moura , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Task-oriented dialogue systems often employ a Dialogue State Tracker (DST) to successfully complete conversations. Recent state-of-the-art DST implementations rely on schemata of diverse services to improve model robustness and handle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Eleftherios Kapelonis , Efthymios Georgiou , Alexandros Potamianos

The primary purpose of dialogue state tracking (DST), a critical component of an end-to-end conversational system, is to build a model that responds well to real-world situations. Although we often change our minds from time to time during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Takyoung Kim , Yukyung Lee , Hoonsang Yoon , Pilsung Kang , Junseong Bang , Misuk Kim

The visual dialog task attempts to train an agent to answer multi-turn questions given an image, which requires the deep understanding of interactions between the image and dialog history. Existing researches tend to employ the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Tong Ye , Shijing Si , Jianzong Wang , Rui Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Visual dialogue is a challenging task since it needs to answer a series of coherent questions on the basis of understanding the visual environment. Previous studies focus on the implicit exploration of multimodal co-reference by implicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Feilong Chen , Fandong Meng , Xiuyi Chen , Peng Li , Jie Zhou

Visual dialog is a challenging vision-language task, where a dialog agent needs to answer a series of questions through reasoning on the image content and dialog history. Prior work has mostly focused on various attention mechanisms to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yue Wang , Shafiq Joty , Michael R. Lyu , Irwin King , Caiming Xiong , Steven C. H. Hoi

We investigate the problem of multi-domain Dialogue State Tracking (DST) with open vocabulary, which aims to extract the state from the dialogue. Existing approaches usually concatenate previous dialogue state with dialogue history as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Yan Zeng , Jian-Yun Nie

Dialog State Tracking (DST), an integral part of modern dialog systems, aims to track user preferences and constraints (slots) in task-oriented dialogs. In real-world settings with constantly changing services, DST systems must generalize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Shuyang Li , Jin Cao , Mukund Sridhar , Henghui Zhu , Shang-Wen Li , Wael Hamza , Julian McAuley

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in zero-shot dialogue state tracking (DST), reducing the need for task-specific training. However, conventional DST benchmarks primarily focus on structured user-agent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Sangmin Song , Juhwan Choi , JungMin Yun , YoungBin Kim

In task-oriented dialogue systems the dialogue state tracker (DST) component is responsible for predicting the state of the dialogue based on the dialogue history. Current DST approaches rely on a predefined domain ontology, a fact that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Vevake Balaraman , Bernardo Magnini

The majority of traditional text-to-video retrieval systems operate in static environments, i.e., there is no interaction between the user and the agent beyond the initial textual query provided by the user. This can be sub-optimal if the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Avinash Madasu , Junier Oliva , Gedas Bertasius

Dialogue state tracking (DST) plays an important role in task-oriented dialogue systems. However, collecting a large amount of turn-by-turn annotated dialogue data is costly and inefficient. In this paper, we propose a novel turn-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zihan Zhang , Meng Fang , Fanghua Ye , Ling Chen , Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is at the heart of task-oriented dialogue systems. However, the scarcity of labeled data is an obstacle to building accurate and robust state tracking systems that work across a variety of domains. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Shuyang Gao , Sanchit Agarwal , Tagyoung Chung , Di Jin , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Dialogue state tracking (DST) aims at estimating the current dialogue state given all the preceding conversation. For multi-domain DST, the data sparsity problem is a major obstacle due to increased numbers of state candidates and dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Su Zhu , Jieyu Li , Lu Chen , Kai Yu

Task-oriented dialog systems rely on dialog state tracking (DST) to monitor the user's goal during the course of an interaction. Multi-domain and open-vocabulary settings complicate the task considerably and demand scalable solutions. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Michael Heck , Carel van Niekerk , Nurul Lubis , Christian Geishauser , Hsien-Chin Lin , Marco Moresi , Milica Gašić

Existing approaches to Dialogue State Tracking (DST) rely on turn level dialogue state annotations, which are expensive to acquire in large scale. In call centers, for tasks like managing bookings or subscriptions, the user goal can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Shuailong Liang , Lahari Poddar , Gyuri Szarvas

There has been significant interest in zero and few-shot learning for dialogue state tracking (DST) due to the high cost of collecting and annotating task-oriented dialogues. Recent work has demonstrated that in-context learning requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Brendan King , Jeffrey Flanigan