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Conversational recommender systems enable natural language conversations and thus lead to a more engaging and effective recommendation scenario. As the conversations for recommender systems usually contain limited contextual information,…

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Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values is a central challenge for ensuring trustworthy and safe deployment. While existing methods such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and its variants have improved…

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Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to proactively elicit user preference and recommend high-quality items through natural language conversations. Typically, a CRS consists of a recommendation module to predict preferred items for…

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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

The standard Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) framework primarily focuses on optimizing the performance of large language models using pre-collected prompts. However, collecting prompts that provide comprehensive coverage…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable promise in communicating with humans. Their potential use as artificial partners with humans in sociological experiments involving conversation is an exciting prospect. But how viable is…

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Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) provide users with an interactive means to express preferences and receive real-time personalized recommendations. The success of these systems is heavily influenced by the preference elicitation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ivica Kostric , Krisztian Balog , Ujwal Gadiraju

Multi-turn intent classification is notably challenging due to the complexity and evolving nature of conversational contexts. This paper introduces LARA, a Linguistic-Adaptive Retrieval-Augmentation framework to enhance accuracy in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Junhua Liu , Yong Keat Tan , Bin Fu , Kwan Hui Lim

Conversational recommender systems have attracted immense attention recently. The most recent approaches rely on neural models trained on recorded dialogs between humans, implementing an end-to-end learning process. These systems are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Ahtsham Manzoor , Dietmar Jannach

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) agents are increasingly deployed to answer questions over local knowledge bases that cannot be centralized due to knowledge-sovereignty constraints. This results in two recurring failures in production:…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Feijie Wu , Zitao Li , Fei Wei , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Jing Gao

Multi-agent AI systems can be used for simulating collective decision-making in scientific and practical applications. They can also be used to introduce a diverse group discussion step in chatbot pipelines, enhancing the cultural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Razan Baltaji , Babak Hemmatian , Lav R. Varshney

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) proactively engage users in interactive dialogues to elicit user preferences and provide personalized recommendations. Existing methods train Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based agent with greedy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Hanwen Du , Bo Peng , Xia Ning

With the advancement of conversational large language models (LLMs), several LLM-based Conversational Shopping Agents (CSA) have been developed to help customers smooth their online shopping. The primary objective in building an engaging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Jingying Zeng , Hui Liu , Zhenwei Dai , Xianfeng Tang , Chen Luo , Samarth Varshney , Zhen Li , Qi He

Recommender systems trained on offline historical user behaviors are embracing conversational techniques to online query user preference. Unlike prior conversational recommendation approaches that systemically combine conversational and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Jiarui Jin , Xianyu Chen , Fanghua Ye , Mengyue Yang , Yue Feng , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu , Jun Wang

Knowledge-intensive conversations supported by large language models (LLMs) have become one of the most popular and helpful applications that can assist people in different aspects. Many current knowledge-intensive applications are centered…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Zitao Li , Fei Wei , Yuexiang Xie , Dawei Gao , Weirui Kuang , Zhijian Ma , Bingchen Qian , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding

LLM-based agents have gained considerable attention for their decision-making skills and ability to handle complex tasks. Recognizing the current gap in leveraging agent capabilities for multi-agent collaboration in recommendation systems,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Zhefan Wang , Yuanqing Yu , Wendi Zheng , Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang

Despite the growing use of large language models (LLMs) in clinical dialogue systems, existing evaluations focus on task completion or fluency, offering little insight into the behavioral and risk management requirements essential for…

Recently, there has been an emergence of employing LLM-powered agents as believable human proxies, based on their remarkable decision-making capability. However, existing studies mainly focus on simulating human dialogue. Human non-verbal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Junjie Zhang , Yupeng Hou , Ruobing Xie , Wenqi Sun , Julian McAuley , Wayne Xin Zhao , Leyu Lin , Ji-Rong Wen

Research and development on conversational recommender systems (CRSs) critically depends on sound and reliable evaluation methodologies. However, the interactive nature of these systems poses significant challenges for automatic evaluation.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Nolwenn Bernard , Krisztian Balog

We introduce a multi-turn benchmark for evaluating personalised alignment in LLM-based AI assistants, focusing on their ability to handle user-provided safety-critical contexts. Our assessment of ten leading models across five scenarios…

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