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Despite the critical need to align search targets with users' intention, retrievers often only prioritize query information without delving into the users' intended search context. Enhancing the capability of retrievers to understand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Hanseok Oh , Hyunji Lee , Seonghyeon Ye , Haebin Shin , Hansol Jang , Changwook Jun , Minjoon Seo

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

Behavioral skills or policies for autonomous agents are conventionally learned from reward functions, via reinforcement learning, or from demonstrations, via imitation learning. However, both modes of task specification have their…

Enabling robots to accurately interpret and execute spoken language instructions is essential for effective human-robot collaboration. Traditional methods rely on speech recognition to transcribe speech into text, often discarding crucial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 David Sasu , Kweku Andoh Yamoah , Benedict Quartey , Natalie Schluter

Learning new skills by observing humans' behaviors is an essential capability of AI. In this work, we leverage instructional videos to study humans' decision-making processes, focusing on learning a model to plan goal-directed actions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jing Bi , Jiebo Luo , Chenliang Xu

People often give instructions whose meaning is ambiguous without further context, expecting that their actions or goals will disambiguate their intentions. How can we build assistive agents that follow such instructions in a flexible,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Tan Zhi-Xuan , Lance Ying , Vikash Mansinghka , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

A singular attribute of humankind is our ability to undertake novel, cooperative behavior, or teamwork. This requires that we can communicate goals, plans, and ideas between the brains of individuals to create shared intentionality. Using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-30 John Rushby

It is a long-lasting goal to design a generalist-embodied agent that can follow diverse instructions in human-like ways. However, existing approaches often fail to steadily follow instructions due to difficulties in understanding abstract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Enshen Zhou , Yiran Qin , Zhenfei Yin , Yuzhou Huang , Ruimao Zhang , Lu Sheng , Yu Qiao , Jing Shao

As social service robots become commonplace, it is essential for them to effectively interpret human signals, such as verbal, gesture, and eye gaze, when people need to focus on their primary tasks to minimize interruptions and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Hanfang Lyu , Xiaoyu Wang , Nandi Zhang , Shuai Ma , Qian Zhu , Yuhan Luo , Fugee Tsung , Xiaojuan Ma

Although in the literature it is common to find predictors and inference systems that try to predict human intentions, the uncertainty of these models due to the randomness of human behavior has led some authors to start advocating the use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 J. E. Domínguez-Vidal , Alberto Sanfeliu

Language-guided Embodied AI benchmarks requiring an agent to navigate an environment and manipulate objects typically allow one-way communication: the human user gives a natural language command to the agent, and the agent can only follow…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Xiaofeng Gao , Qiaozi Gao , Ran Gong , Kaixiang Lin , Govind Thattai , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Navigation guided by natural language instructions presents a challenging reasoning problem for instruction followers. Natural language instructions typically identify only a few high-level decisions and landmarks rather than complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Daniel Fried , Ronghang Hu , Volkan Cirik , Anna Rohrbach , Jacob Andreas , Louis-Philippe Morency , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Kate Saenko , Dan Klein , Trevor Darrell

Natural language prompts often suffer from intent transmission loss: the gap between what users actually need and what they communicate to AI systems. We evaluate PPS (Prompt Protocol Specification), a 5W3H-based framework for structured…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Peng Gang

How to build AI that understands human intentions, and uses this knowledge to collaborate with people? We describe a computational framework for evaluating models of goal inference in the domain of 3D motor actions, which receives as input…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Yingdong Qian , Marta Kryven , Tao Gao , Hanbyul Joo , Josh Tenenbaum

Considering how to make the model accurately understand and follow natural language instructions and perform actions consistent with world knowledge is a key challenge in robot manipulation. This mainly includes human fuzzy instruction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Pengzhen Ren , Kaidong Zhang , Hetao Zheng , Zixuan Li , Yuhang Wen , Fengda Zhu , Mas Ma , Xiaodan Liang

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) offer an opportunity for the adoption of self-driving networks. However, network operators or home-network users still do not have the right tools to exploit these new advancements in AI,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Arthur Selle Jacobs , Ricardo José Pfitscher , Ronaldo Alves Ferreira , Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville

When humans cooperate, they frequently coordinate their activity through both verbal communication and non-verbal actions, using this information to infer a shared goal and plan. How can we model this inferential ability? In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Lance Ying , Tan Zhi-Xuan , Vikash Mansinghka , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Discourse signals are often implicit, leaving it up to the interpreter to draw the required inferences. At the same time, discourse is embedded in a social context, meaning that interpreters apply their own assumptions and beliefs when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Elisa Ferracane , Greg Durrett , Junyi Jessy Li , Katrin Erk

While we do not always use words, communicating what we want to an AI is a conversation -- with ourselves as well as with it, a recurring loop with optional steps depending on the complexity of the situation and our request. Any given…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Elena L. Glassman

Fine-tuning facilitates the adaptation of text-to-image generative models to novel concepts (e.g., styles and portraits), empowering users to forge creatively customized content. Recent efforts on fine-tuning focus on reducing training data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Xingchen Zeng , Ziyao Gao , Yilin Ye , Wei Zeng