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The increasingly collaborative decision-making process between humans and agents demands a comprehensive, continuous, and unobtrusive measure of trust in agents. The gold standard format for measuring trust, a Likert-style survey, suffers…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Mengyao Li , Areen Alsaid , Sofia I. Noejovich , Ernest V. Cross , John D. Lee

Existing open-domain human-computer conversation systems are typically passive: they either synthesize or retrieve a reply provided a human-issued utterance. It is generally presumed that humans should take the role to lead the conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Xiang Li , Lili Mou , Rui Yan , Ming Zhang

This paper introduces the task of product demand clarification within an e-commercial scenario, where the user commences the conversation with ambiguous queries and the task-oriented agent is designed to achieve more accurate and tailored…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jingheng Ye , Yong Jiang , Xiaobin Wang , Yinghui Li , Yangning Li , Hai-Tao Zheng , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang

Conversation is the natural mode for information exchange in daily life, a spoken conversational interaction for search input and output is a logical format for information seeking. However, the conceptualisation of user-system interactions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Johanne R. Trippas , Damiano Spina , Paul Thomas , Mark Sanderson , Hideo Joho , Lawrence Cavedon

Proactive dialogue systems aim to empower chatbots with the capability of leading conversations towards specific targets, thereby enhancing user engagement and service autonomy. Existing systems typically target pre-defined keywords or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Bowen Wu , Wenqing Wang , Haoran Li , Ying Li , Jingsong Yu , Baoxun Wang

Proactive dialogues serve as a practical yet challenging dialogue problem in the era of large language models (LLMs), where the dialogue policy planning is the key to improving the proactivity of LLMs. Most existing studies enable the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yang Deng , Wenxuan Zhang , Wai Lam , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

Enhancing user engagement through interactions plays an essential role in socially-driven dialogues. While prior works have optimized models to reason over relevant knowledge or plan a dialogue act flow, the relationship between user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Jiashuo Wang , Kaitao Song , Chunpu Xu , Changhe Song , Yang Xiao , Dongsheng Li , Lili Qiu , Wenjie Li

Conversational information seeking has evolved rapidly in the last few years with the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), providing the basis for interpreting and responding in a naturalistic manner to user requests. The extended…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Zahra Abbasiantaeb , Shubham Chatterjee , Jeffery Dalton , Leif Azzopardi

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly expected to function as collaborative partners, engaging in back-and-forth dialogue to solve complex, ambiguous problems. However, current LLMs often falter in real-world settings, defaulting to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tenghao Huang , Sihao Chen , Muhao Chen , Jonathan May , Longqi Yang , Mengting Wan , Pei Zhou

Agency, the capacity to proactively shape events, is central to how humans interact and collaborate. While LLMs are being developed to simulate human behavior and serve as human-like agents, little attention has been given to the Agency…

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Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on reactive question answering, but real-world streaming assistants require proactive reasoning over continuous visual inputs. Existing benchmarks mainly study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jinzhao Li , Yinuo Chen , Wenxuan Song , Yijia Lei , Yichi Zhang , Honglei Yan , Panwang Pan , Miao Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become a popular interface for human-AI interaction, supporting information seeking and task assistance through natural, multi-turn dialogue. To respond to users within multi-turn dialogues, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Fengran Mo , Yifan Gao , Sha Li , Hansi Zeng , Xin Liu , Zhaoxuan Tan , Xian Li , Jianshu Chen , Dakuo Wang , Meng Jiang

In an era where single large language models have dominated the landscape of artificial intelligence for years, multi-agent systems arise as new protagonists in conversational task-solving. While previous studies have showcased their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Jonas Becker

Recent advances in conversational AI have been substantial, but developing real-time systems for perceptual task guidance remains challenging. These systems must provide interactive, proactive assistance based on streaming visual inputs,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yichi Zhang , Xin Luna Dong , Zhaojiang Lin , Andrea Madotto , Anuj Kumar , Babak Damavandi , Joyce Chai , Seungwhan Moon

Goal-oriented conversational agents are becoming prevalent in our daily lives. For these systems to engage users and achieve their goals, they need to exhibit appropriate social behavior as well as provide informative replies that guide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yi-Chia Wang , Alexandros Papangelis , Runze Wang , Zhaleh Feizollahi , Gokhan Tur , Robert Kraut

There have been several attempts to define a plausible motivation for a chit-chat dialogue agent that can lead to engaging conversations. In this work, we explore a new direction where the agent specifically focuses on discovering…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Yury Zemlyanskiy , Fei Sha

The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in interactive systems necessitates a deep alignment with the nuanced and dynamic preferences of individual users. Current alignment techniques predominantly address universal human values or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Xiaotian Zhang , Yuan Wang , Ruizhe Chen , Zeya Wang , Runchen Hou , Zuozhu Liu

Social chatbots have become essential intelligent companions in daily scenarios ranging from emotional support to personal interaction. However, conventional chatbots with passive response mechanisms usually rely on users to initiate or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zihan Niu , Zheyong Xie , Shaosheng Cao , Chonggang Lu , Zheyu Ye , Tong Xu , Zuozhu Liu , Yan Gao , Jia Chen , Zhe Xu , Yi Wu , Yao Hu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a new paradigm for multi-agent systems. However, existing research on the behaviour of LLM-based multi-agents relies on ad hoc prompts and lacks a principled policy perspective. Different from…

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