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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

We will demonstrate a conversational products recommendation agent. This system shows how we combine research in personalized recommendation systems with research in dialogue systems to build a virtual sales agent. Based on new deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Yueming Sun , Yi Zhang , Yunfei Chen , Roger Jin

Most popular goal-oriented dialogue agents are capable of understanding the conversational context. However, with the surge of virtual assistants with screen, the next generation of agents are required to also understand screen context in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-26 Sanchit Agarwal , Jan Jezabek , Arijit Biswas , Emre Barut , Shuyang Gao , Tagyoung Chung

In this paper, a novel Generation-Evaluation framework is developed for multi-turn conversations with the objective of letting both participants know more about each other. For the sake of rational knowledge utilization and coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Siqi Bao , Huang He , Fan Wang , Rongzhong Lian , Hua Wu

Human conversation involves language, speech, and visual cues, with each medium providing complementary information. For instance, speech conveys a vibe or tone not fully captured by text alone. While multimodal LLMs focus on generating…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Taesoo Kim , Yongsik Jo , Hyunmin Song , Taehwan Kim

We propose Teamwork Synthesis, a version of the distributed synthesis problem with application to teamwork multi-agent systems. We reformulate the distributed synthesis question by dropping the fixed interaction architecture among agents as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Yehia Abd Alrahman , Nir Piterman

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have improved their ability to process extended conversational contexts, yet fine-tuning and evaluating short- and long-term memories remain difficult due to the absence of datasets that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Manoj Madushanka Perera , Adnan Mahmood , Kasun Eranda Wijethilake , Quan Z. Sheng

This paper introduces a new model to generate rhythmically relevant non-verbal facial behaviors for virtual agents while they speak. The model demonstrates perceived performance comparable to behaviors directly extracted from the data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Alice Delbosc , Magalie Ochs , Nicolas Sabouret , Brian Ravenet , Stéphane Ayache

Deploying conversational voice agents with large language models faces a critical challenge: cloud-based foundation models provide deep reasoning and domain knowledge but introduce latency that disrupts natural conversation, while on-device…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Vidya Srinivas , Zachary Englhardt , Maximus Powers , Shwetak Patel , Vikram Iyer

Conversational agents have been gaining increasing popularity in recent years. Influenced by the widespread adoption of task-oriented agents such as Apple Siri and Amazon Alexa, these agents are being deployed into various applications to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Christopher Clarke , Karthik Krishnamurthy , Walter Talamonti , Yiping Kang , Lingjia Tang , Jason Mars

We consider the problem of designing an artificial agent capable of interacting with humans in collaborative dialogue to produce creative, engaging narratives. In this task, the goal is to establish universe details, and to collaborate on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Kory W. Mathewson , Pablo Samuel Castro , Colin Cherry , George Foster , Marc G. Bellemare

We present PresentAgent, a multimodal agent that transforms long-form documents into narrated presentation videos. While existing approaches are limited to generating static slides or text summaries, our method advances beyond these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jingwei Shi , Zeyu Zhang , Biao Wu , Yanjie Liang , Meng Fang , Ling Chen , Yang Zhao

Most AI systems today are designed to manage tasks and execute predefined steps. This makes them effective for process coordination but limited in their ability to engage in joint problem-solving with humans or contribute new ideas. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Kexin Quan , Dina Albassam , Mengke Wu , Zijian Ding , Jessie Chin

Multi-agent reinforcement learning has been used as an effective means to study emergent communication between agents, yet little focus has been given to continuous acoustic communication. This would be more akin to human language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Kevin Eloff , Okko Räsänen , Herman A. Engelbrecht , Arnu Pretorius , Herman Kamper

Evaluating AI systems that interact with humans requires understanding their behavior across diverse user populations, but collecting representative human data is often expensive or infeasible, particularly for novel technologies or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Davide Paglieri , Logan Cross , William A. Cunningham , Joel Z. Leibo , Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets

Multimodal Large Language Models have shown promising capabilities in bridging visual and textual reasoning, yet their reasoning capabilities in Open-Vocabulary Human-Object Interaction (OV-HOI) are limited by cross-modal hallucinations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zhenlong Yuan , Yue Wang , Dapeng Zhang , Kejin Cui , Rui Chen , Jing Tang , Lei Sun , Hongwei Yu , Chengxuan Qian , Xiangxiang Chu , Shuo Li , Yuyin Zhou

There has recently been growing interest in conversational agents with long-term memory which has led to the rapid development of language models that use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Until recently, most work on RAG has focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Nick Alonso , Tomás Figliolia , Anthony Ndirango , Beren Millidge

Spoken dialogue systems that assist users to solve complex tasks such as movie ticket booking have become an emerging research topic in artificial intelligence and natural language processing areas. With a well-designed dialogue system as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Shang-Yu Su , Po-Wei Lin , Yun-Nung Chen

Skills are a promising way to improve LLM agent capabilities without retraining, while keeping the added procedure reusable and controllable. However, high-quality skills are still largely written by hand. We introduce SkillGen, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yuchen Ma , Yue Huang , Han Bao , Haomin Zhuang , Swadheen Shukla , Michel Galley , Xiangliang Zhang , Stefan Feuerriegel

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