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Domain adaptation is an essential task in dialog system building because there are so many new dialog tasks created for different needs every day. Collecting and annotating training data for these new tasks is costly since it involves real…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Kun Qian , Zhou Yu

Research shows that dialogue, the interactive process through which participants articulate their thinking, plays a central role in constructing shared understanding, coordinating action, and shaping learning outcomes in teams. Analysing…

We propose a new task of conversational recommendation over multi-type dialogs, where the bots can proactively and naturally lead a conversation from a non-recommendation dialog (e.g., QA) to a recommendation dialog, taking into account…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Zeming Liu , Haifeng Wang , Zheng-Yu Niu , Hua Wu , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in reasoning, demonstrating their capability to generate human-like responses. This study analyzes the problem-solving capabilities of LLMs in the domain of thermodynamics. A…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Rebecca Loubet , Pascal Zittlau , Luisa Vollmer , Marco Hoffmann , Sophie Fellenz , Fabian Jirasek , Heike Leitte , Hans Hasse

The creation of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) models is a complex and time-consuming task requiring both domain knowledge and proficiency in modeling conventions. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Chantale Lauer , Peter Pfeiffer , Alexander Rombach , Nijat Mehdiyev

In this work, we present JT-DA-8B (JiuTian Data Analyst 8B), a specialized large language model designed for complex table reasoning tasks across diverse real-world scenarios. To address the lack of high-quality supervision in tabular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ce Chi , Xing Wang , Zhendong Wang , Xiaofan Liu , Ce Li , Zhiyan Song , Chen Zhao , Kexin Yang , Boshen Shi , Jingjing Yang , Chao Deng , Junlan Feng

Full-duplex voice interaction is crucial for natural human computer interaction. We present a framework that decomposes complex dialogue into minimal conversational units, enabling the system to process each unit independently and predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Haoyuan Yu , Yuxuan Chen , Minjie Cai

With increasing privacy concerns on data, recent studies have made significant progress using federated learning (FL) on privacy-sensitive natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Much literature suggests fully fine-tuning pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Zhuo Zhang , Yuanhang Yang , Yong Dai , Lizhen Qu , Zenglin Xu

Flowchart-grounded troubleshooting dialogue (FTD) systems, which follow the instructions of a flowchart to diagnose users' problems in specific domains (e.g., vehicle, laptop), have been gaining research interest in recent years. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Haolan Zhan , Sameen Maruf , Lizhen Qu , Yufei Wang , Ingrid Zukerman , Gholamreza Haffari

Driven by the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly Audio-LLMs and Omni-models, spoken dialogue systems have evolved significantly, progressively narrowing the gap between human-machine and human-human…

LLM-driven dialog systems are used in a diverse set of applications, ranging from healthcare to customer service. However, given their generalization capability, it is difficult to ensure that these chatbots stay within the boundaries of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Stuti Agrawal , Nishi Uppuluri , Pranav Pillai , Revanth Gangi Reddy , Zoey Li , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Heng Ji

Conversational systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, show exceptional proficiency in context understanding and response generation. However, despite their impressive capabilities, they still possess limitations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yang Deng , Lizi Liao , Liang Chen , Hongru Wang , Wenqiang Lei , Tat-Seng Chua

The success of ChatGPT has recently attracted numerous efforts to replicate it, with instruction-tuning strategies being a key factor in achieving remarkable results. Instruction-tuning not only significantly enhances the model's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yunjie Ji , Yong Deng , Yan Gong , Yiping Peng , Qiang Niu , Lei Zhang , Baochang Ma , Xiangang Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to revolutionize data analytics by simplifying tasks such as data discovery and SQL query synthesis through natural language interactions. This work serves as a pivotal first step toward the…

In this paper, we present ChatPLUG, a Chinese open-domain dialogue system for digital human applications that instruction finetunes on a wide range of dialogue tasks in a unified internet-augmented format. Different from other open-domain…

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach to solve dialogue policy optimisation. Traditional RL algorithms, however, fail to scale to large domains due to the curse of dimensionality. We propose a novel Dialogue Management…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Iñigo Casanueva , Paweł Budzianowski , Pei-Hao Su , Stefan Ultes , Lina Rojas-Barahona , Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Milica Gašić

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding. While demonstrating proficiency in everyday conversations and question-answering situations, these models frequently struggle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Chaoyi Wu , Weixiong Lin , Xiaoman Zhang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Large Language Models(LLMs) have shown exceptional abilities, yet training these models can be quite challenging. There is a strong dependence on the quality of data and finding the best instruction tuning set. Further, the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Nikhil Kothari , Ravindra Nayak , Shreyas Shetty , Amey Patil , Nikesh Garera

A major bottleneck for building statistical spoken dialogue systems for new domains and applications is the need for large amounts of training data. To address this problem, we adopt the multi-dimensional approach to dialogue management and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Simon Keizer , Norbert Braunschweiler , Svetlana Stoyanchev , Rama Doddipatla

We present the design, implementation and engineering experience in building and deploying MegaScale, a production system for training large language models (LLMs) at the scale of more than 10,000 GPUs. Training LLMs at this scale brings…