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Dialogue state modules are a useful component in a task-oriented dialogue system. Traditional methods find dialogue states by manually labeling training corpora, upon which neural models are trained. However, the labeling process can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Qingkai Min , Libo Qin , Zhiyang Teng , Xiao Liu , Yue Zhang

Deep search agents, which aim to answer complex questions requiring reasoning across multiple documents, can significantly speed up the information-seeking process. Collecting human annotations for this application is prohibitively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Fangyuan Xu , Rujun Han , Yanfei Chen , Zifeng Wang , I-Hung Hsu , Jun Yan , Vishy Tirumalashetty , Eunsol Choi , Tomas Pfister , Chen-Yu Lee

Successfully solving long-horizon manipulation tasks remains a fundamental challenge. These tasks involve extended action sequences and complex object interactions, presenting a critical gap between high-level symbolic planning and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jialiang Li , Wenzheng Wu , Gaojing Zhang , Yifan Han , Wenzhao Lian

We introduce SAGE; a Generative LLM for inferring attribute values for products across world-wide e-Commerce catalogs. We introduce a novel formulation of the attribute-value prediction problem as a Seq2Seq summarization task, across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Athanasios N. Nikolakopoulos , Swati Kaul , Siva Karthik Gade , Bella Dubrov , Umit Batur , Suleiman Ali Khan

Query rewriting is pivotal for enhancing dense retrieval, yet current methods demand large-scale supervised data or suffer from inefficient reinforcement learning (RL) exploration. In this work, we first establish that guiding Large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Teng Wang , Hailei Gong , Changwang Zhang , Jun Wang

Pre-training models have been proved effective for a wide range of natural language processing tasks. Inspired by this, we propose a novel dialogue generation pre-training framework to support various kinds of conversations, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Siqi Bao , Huang He , Fan Wang , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Currently end-to-end deep learning based open-domain dialogue systems remain black box models, making it easy to generate irrelevant contents with data-driven models. Specifically, latent variables are highly entangled with different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Ye Wang , Jingbo Liao , Hong Yu , Guoyin Wang , Xiaoxia Zhang , Li Liu

Deep latent variable models have been shown to facilitate the response generation for open-domain dialog systems. However, these latent variables are highly randomized, leading to uncontrollable generated responses. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Xiaoyu Shen , Hui Su , Yanran Li , Wenjie Li , Shuzi Niu , Yang Zhao , Akiko Aizawa , Guoping Long

Chatbots or conversational agents (CAs) are increasingly used to improve access to digital psychotherapy. Many current systems rely on rigid, rule-based designs, heavily dependent on expert-crafted dialogue scripts for guiding therapeutic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Xin Sun , Jan de Wit , Zhuying Li , Jiahuan Pei , Abdallah El Ali , Jos A. Bosch

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across various tasks but remain vulnerable to meticulously crafted jailbreak attacks. In this paper, we identify a critical safety gap: while LLMs are adept at detecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Peng Ding , Jun Kuang , Zongyu Wang , Xuezhi Cao , Xunliang Cai , Jiajun Chen , Shujian Huang

Dialog response generation in open domain is an important research topic where the main challenge is to generate relevant and diverse responses. In this paper, we propose a new dialog pre-training framework called DialogVED, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Wei Chen , Yeyun Gong , Song Wang , Bolun Yao , Weizhen Qi , Zhongyu Wei , Xiaowu Hu , Bartuer Zhou , Yi Mao , Weizhu Chen , Biao Cheng , Nan Duan

When engaging in conversations, dialogue agents in a virtual simulation environment may exhibit their own emotional states that are unrelated to the immediate conversational context, a phenomenon known as self-emotion. This study explores…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Qiang Zhang , Jason Naradowsky , Yusuke Miyao

The increasing capability of large language models (LLMs) to generate synthetic content has heightened concerns about their misuse, driving the development of Machine-Generated Text (MGT) detection models. However, these detectors face…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Haoyi Li , Angela Yifei Yuan , Soyeon Caren Han , Christopher Leckie

Large language model (LLM) based agents are increasingly used to tackle software engineering tasks that require multi-step reasoning and code modification, demonstrating promising yet limited performance. However, most existing LLM agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hiroaki Hayashi , Bo Pang , Wenting Zhao , Ye Liu , Akash Gokul , Srijan Bansal , Caiming Xiong , Semih Yavuz , Yingbo Zhou

The generation of personalized dialogue is vital to natural and human-like conversation. Typically, personalized dialogue generation models involve conditioning the generated response on the dialogue history and a representation of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jing Yang Lee , Kong Aik Lee , Woon Seng Gan

To model diverse responses for a given post, one promising way is to introduce a latent variable into Seq2Seq models. The latent variable is supposed to capture the discourse-level information and encourage the informativeness of target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Zhi Cui , Yanran Li , Jiayi Zhang , Jianwei Cui , Chen Wei , Bin Wang

A good empathetic dialogue system should first track and understand a user's emotion and then reply with an appropriate emotion. However, current approaches to this task either focus on improving the understanding of users' emotion or on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yuhan Liu , Jun Gao , Jiachen Du , Lanjun Zhou , Ruifeng Xu

Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in open-domain dialogues. However, current methods exhibit suboptimal performance in service dialogues, as they rely on noisy, low-quality human conversation data. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yuqin Dai , Ning Gao , Wei Zhang , Jie Wang , Zichen Luo , Jinpeng Wang , Yujie Wang , Ruiyuan Wu , Chaozheng Wang

Generating high-fidelity synthetic tabular data remains a critical challenge for enhancing data availability in privacy-sensitive and low-resource domains. Recent approaches leverage LLMs by representing table rows as sequences, yet suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Shuo Yang , Zheyu Zhang , Bardh Prenkaj , Gjergji Kasneci

Conversational AI systems require guardrails to prevent harmful outputs, yet existing approaches use static rules that cannot adapt to new threats or deployment contexts. We introduce Lattice, a framework for self-constructing and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Emily Broadhurst , Tawab Safi , Joseph Edell , Vashisht Ganesh , Karime Maamari