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Language models have steadily increased in size over the past few years. They achieve a high level of performance on various natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as question answering and summarization. Large language models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Jessica Huynh , Cathy Jiao , Prakhar Gupta , Shikib Mehri , Payal Bajaj , Vishrav Chaudhary , Maxine Eskenazi

Target-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) remains a significant challenge in the LLM era, where strategic dialogue planning is crucial for directing conversations toward specific targets. However, existing dialogue planning methods generate dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hanwen Du , Bo Peng , Xia Ning

Recent efforts in Spoken Dialogue Modeling aim to synthesize spoken dialogue without the need for direct transcription, thereby preserving the wealth of non-textual information inherent in speech. However, this approach faces a challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yu-Kuan Fu , Cheng-Kuang Lee , Hsiu-Hsuan Wang , Hung-yi Lee

Many task-oriented dialogue systems use deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to learn policies that respond to the user appropriately and complete the tasks successfully. Training DRL agents with diverse dialogue trajectories prepare them well…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Zhiwen Tang , Hrishikesh Kulkarni , Grace Hui Yang

Semantic Machines (SM) have introduced the use of the dataflow (DF) paradigm to dialogue modelling, using computational graphs to hierarchically represent user requests, data, and the dialogue history [Semantic Machines et al. 2020].…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Joram Meron , Victor Guimarães

While a multi-agent approach based on large language models (LLMs) represents a promising strategy to surpass the capabilities of single models, its success is critically dependent on synergistic team composition. However, forming optimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kotaro Furuya , Yuichi Kitagawa

The rapidly growing demand for high-quality data in Large Language Models (LLMs) has intensified the need for scalable, reliable, and semantically rich data preparation pipelines. However, current practices remain dominated by ad-hoc…

Dialogue agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) show superior performance in various tasks. Despite the better user understanding and human-like responses, their lack of controllability remains a key challenge, often leading to…

Task oriented dialogue systems (TOD) complete particular tasks based on user preferences across natural language interactions. Considering the impressive performance of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing (NLP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Arezoo Saedi , Afsaneh Fatemi , Mohammad Ali Nematbakhsh , Sophie Rosset , Anne Vilnat

Dialogue is an essential part of human communication and cooperation. Existing research mainly focuses on short dialogue scenarios in a one-on-one fashion. However, multi-person interactions in the real world, such as meetings or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Ming Zhong , Yang Liu , Yichong Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng

We have reached a practical and realistic phase in human-support dialogue agents by developing a large language model (LLM). However, when requiring expert knowledge or anticipating the utterance content using the massive size of the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Naoki Yoshimaru , Motoharu Okuma , Takamasa Iio , Kenji Hatano

Dialogue systems are a popular natural language processing (NLP) task as it is promising in real-life applications. It is also a complicated task since many NLP tasks deserving study are involved. As a result, a multitude of novel works on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Jinjie Ni , Tom Young , Vlad Pandelea , Fuzhao Xue , Erik Cambria

The future of conversational agents will provide users with personalized information responses. However, a significant challenge in developing models is the lack of large-scale dialogue datasets that span multiple sessions and reflect…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Hideaki Joko , Shubham Chatterjee , Andrew Ramsay , Arjen P. de Vries , Jeff Dalton , Faegheh Hasibi

How to build and use dialogue data efficiently, and how to deploy models in different domains at scale can be two critical issues in building a task-oriented dialogue system. In this paper, we propose a novel manual-guided dialogue scheme…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Ryuichi Takanobu , Hao Zhou , Yankai Lin , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Minlie Huang

In multi-modal dialogue systems, it is important to allow the use of images as part of a multi-turn conversation. Training such dialogue systems generally requires a large-scale dataset consisting of multi-turn dialogues that involve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Nyoungwoo Lee , Suwon Shin , Jaegul Choo , Ho-Jin Choi , Sung-Hyun Myaeng

Enhancing user engagement through personalization in conversational agents has gained significance, especially with the advent of large language models that generate fluent responses. Personalized dialogue generation, however, is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yi-Pei Chen , Noriki Nishida , Hideki Nakayama , Yuji Matsumoto

Pre-trained language models (PrLM) has been shown powerful in enhancing a broad range of downstream tasks including various dialogue related ones. However, PrLMs are usually trained on general plain text with common language model (LM)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yi Xu , Hai Zhao

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant progress in understanding complex natural language. One important application of LLM is LLM-based AI Agent, which leverages the ability of LLM as well as external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zelong Li , Shuyuan Xu , Kai Mei , Wenyue Hua , Balaji Rama , Om Raheja , Hao Wang , He Zhu , Yongfeng Zhang

Nowadays, open-domain dialogue models can generate acceptable responses according to the historical context based on the large-scale pre-trained language models. However, they generally concatenate the dialogue history directly as the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Zekang Li , Jinchao Zhang , Zhengcong Fei , Yang Feng , Jie Zhou

We demonstrate task-oriented dialogue generation within the dataflow dialogue paradigm. We show an example of agenda driven dialogue generation for the MultiWOZ domain, and an example of generation without an agenda for the SMCalFlow…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Joram Meron , Victor Guimarães