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The rise of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially integrated with Large Language Models (LLMs), has greatly facilitated the resolution of complex tasks. However, current systems are still facing challenges of…

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We propose a unified Implicit Dialog framework for goal-oriented, information seeking tasks of Conversational Search applications. It aims to enable dialog interactions with domain data without replying on explicitly encoded the rules but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Song Feng , R. Chulaka Gunasekara , Sunil Shashidhara , Kshitij P. Fadnis , Lazaros C. Polymenakos

Human face-to-face conversation is an ideal model for human-computer dialogue. One of the major features of face-to-face communication is its multiplicity of communication channels that act on multiple modalities. To realize a natural…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Katashi Nagao , Akikazu Takeuchi

Conversational AI systems combine AI-based solutions with the flexibility of conversational interfaces. However, most existing testing solutions do not straightforwardly adapt to the characteristics of conversational interaction or to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Elena Masserini

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

The goal of building intelligent dialogue systems has largely been separately pursued under two paradigms: task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, which perform goal-oriented functions, and open-domain dialogue (ODD) systems, which focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Tom Young , Frank Xing , Vlad Pandelea , Jinjie Ni , Erik Cambria

Multimodal learning from document data has achieved great success lately as it allows to pre-train semantically meaningful features as a prior into a learnable downstream task. In this paper, we approach the document classification problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Souhail Bakkali , Zuheng Ming , Mickael Coustaty , Marçal Rusiñol , Oriol Ramos Terrades

In recent years, multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms have made significant advancements in diverse gaming environments, leading to increased interest in the broader application of such techniques. To address the prevalent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Dapeng Li , Hang Dong , Lu Wang , Bo Qiao , Si Qin , Qingwei Lin , Dongmei Zhang , Qi Zhang , Zhiwei Xu , Bin Zhang , Guoliang Fan

Writing persuasive arguments is a challenging task for both humans and machines. It entails incorporating high-level beliefs from various perspectives on the topic, along with deliberate reasoning and planning to construct a coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Zhe Hu , Hou Pong Chan , Jing Li , Yu Yin

AI agents powered by large language models are increasingly capable of autonomously completing complex, multi-step tasks using external tools. Yet, they still fall short of human-level performance in most domains including computer use,…

Creating meaningful visual narratives through human-AI collaboration requires understanding how text-image intertextuality emerges when textual intentions meet AI-generated visuals. We conducted a three-phase qualitative study with 15…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Mengyao Guo , Kexin Nie , Ze Gao , Black Sun , Xueyang Wang , Jinda Han , Xingting Wu

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

Prompt-based offline methods are commonly used to optimize large language model (LLM) responses, but evaluating these responses is computationally intensive and often fails to accommodate diverse response styles. This study introduces a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Xiangxiang Dai , Yuejin Xie , Maoli Liu , Xuchuang Wang , Zhuohua Li , Huanyu Wang , John C. S. Lui

Materials science workflows rely on structured and unstructured data from the vast body of available scientific literature. However, most of the experimental details remain buried in text, tables, graphs and figures. Thus, constructing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Achuth Chandrasekhar , Omid Barati Farimani , Radheesh Sharma Meda , Amir Barati Farimani

Bots are software systems designed to support users by automating a specific process, task, or activity. When such systems implement a conversational component to interact with the users, they are also known as conversational agents. Bots,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Stefano Lambiase , Gemma Catolino , Fabio Palomba , Filomena Ferrucci

We introduce a multicrossmodal LLM-agent framework motivated by the growing volume and diversity of materials-science data ranging from high-resolution microscopy and dynamic simulation videos to tabular experiment logs and sprawling…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-22 Adib Bazgir , Rama chandra Praneeth Madugula , Yuwen Zhang

Multimodal machine translation involves drawing information from more than one modality, based on the assumption that the additional modalities will contain useful alternative views of the input data. The most prominent tasks in this area…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Umut Sulubacak , Ozan Caglayan , Stig-Arne Grönroos , Aku Rouhe , Desmond Elliott , Lucia Specia , Jörg Tiedemann

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

While multimodal conversation agents are gaining importance in several domains such as retail, travel etc., deep learning research in this area has been limited primarily due to the lack of availability of large-scale, open chatlogs. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Amrita Saha , Mitesh Khapra , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

Intelligent assistants that follow commands or answer simple questions, such as Siri and Google search, are among the most economically important applications of AI. Future conversational AI assistants promise even greater capabilities and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Katya Kudashkina , Patrick M. Pilarski , Richard S. Sutton