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The evolution of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has emphasised the significance of meeting diverse user needs. The approaches to identifying and addressing these needs must also advance, recognising that explanation experiences…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Anjana Wijekoon , David Corsar , Nirmalie Wiratunga , Kyle Martin , Pedram Salimi

The study of human-robot interaction is fundamental to the design and use of robotics in real-world applications. Robots will need to predict and adapt to the actions of human collaborators in order to achieve good performance and improve…

Agentic AI systems can now generate code with remarkable fluency, but a fundamental question remains: \emph{does the generated code actually do what the user intended?} The gap between informal natural language requirements and precise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shuvendu K. Lahiri

Metaphors are part of everyday language and shape the way in which we conceptualize the world. Moreover, they play a multifaceted role in communication, making their understanding and generation a challenging task for language models (LMs).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Gianluca Michelli , Xiaoyu Tong , Ekaterina Shutova

Multimodal desire understanding, a task closely related to both emotion and sentiment that aims to infer human intentions from visual and textual cues, is an emerging yet underexplored task in affective computing with applications in social…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Wei Chen , Tongguan Wang , Feiyue Xue , Junkai Li , Hui Liu , Ying Sha

As applications of large language models (LLMs) become increasingly complex, the demand for robust complex instruction following capabilities is growing accordingly. We argue that a thorough understanding of the instruction itself,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuancheng Yang , Lin Yang , Xu Wang , Chao Tong , Haihua Yang

Aligning large language models with humans is challenging due to the inherently multifaceted nature of preference feedback. While existing approaches typically frame this as a multi-objective optimization problem, they often overlook how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mohamad Chehade , Soumya Suvra Ghosal , Souradip Chakraborty , Avinash Reddy , Dinesh Manocha , Hao Zhu , Amrit Singh Bedi

The language-conditioned robotic manipulation aims to transfer natural language instructions into executable actions, from simple pick-and-place to tasks requiring intent recognition and visual reasoning. Inspired by the dual process theory…

Assistive robots can potentially improve the quality of life and personal independence of elderly people by supporting everyday life activities. To guarantee a safe and intuitive interaction between human and robot, human intentions need to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Susanne Trick , Dorothea Koert , Jan Peters , Constantin Rothkopf

In multi-agent collaboration problems with communication, an agent's ability to encode their intention and interpret other agents' strategies is critical for planning their future actions. This paper introduces a novel algorithm called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Guo Ye , Han Liu , Biswa Sengupta

We present Flipper, a natural language interface for describing high-level task specifications for robots that are compiled into robot actions. Flipper starts with a formal core language for task planning that allows expressing rich…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Ivan Gavran , Brendon Boldt , Eva Darulova , Rupak Majumdar

Empirical human-AI alignment aims to make AI systems act in line with observed human behavior. While noble in its goals, we argue that empirical alignment can inadvertently introduce statistical biases that warrant caution. This position…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Julian Rodemann , Esteban Garces Arias , Christoph Luther , Christoph Jansen , Thomas Augustin

Humans increasingly interact with Artificial intelligence(AI) systems. AI systems are optimized for objectives such as minimum computation or minimum error rate in recognizing and interpreting inputs from humans. In contrast, inputs created…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Johannes Schneider

Machine learning models are increasingly integrated into societally critical applications such as recidivism prediction and medical diagnosis, thanks to their superior predictive power. In these applications, however, full automation is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Vivian Lai , Samuel Carton , Chenhao Tan

Providing user-understandable explanations to justify recommendations could help users better understand the recommended items, increase the system's ease of use, and gain users' trust. A typical approach to realize it is natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Lei Li , Yongfeng Zhang , Li Chen

Successful human-agent teaming relies on an agent being able to understand instructions given by a (human) principal. In many cases, an instruction may be incomplete or ambiguous. In such cases, the agent must infer the unspoken intentions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Fardin Saad , Pradeep K. Murukannaiah , Munindar P. Singh

Natural language is one of the most intuitive ways to express human intent. However, translating instructions and commands towards robotic motion generation and deployment in the real world is far from being an easy task. The challenge of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Arthur Bucker , Luis Figueredo , Sami Haddadin , Ashish Kapoor , Shuang Ma , Sai Vemprala , Rogerio Bonatti

Idiomatic expressions can be problematic for natural language processing applications as their meaning cannot be inferred from their constituting words. A lack of successful methodological approaches and sufficiently large datasets prevents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Tadej Škvorc , Polona Gantar , Marko Robnik-Šikonja

The growing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to their widespread adoption for function completion within code repositories. Recent studies on such tasks show promising results when explicit instructions, often in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yanzhou Li , Tianlin Li , Yiran Zhang , Shangqing Liu , Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu , Yang Liu

This paper proposes an intent-aware multi-agent planning framework as well as a learning algorithm. Under this framework, an agent plans in the goal space to maximize the expected utility. The planning process takes the belief of other…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Siyuan Qi , Song-Chun Zhu