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Most language models currently available are prone to self-contradiction during dialogues. To mitigate this issue, this study explores a novel contradictory dialogue processing task that aims to detect and modify contradictory statements in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Xiaofei Wen , Bangzheng Li , Tenghao Huang , Muhao Chen

Controllable text generation is an appealing but challenging task, which allows users to specify particular attributes of the generated outputs. In this paper, we propose a controllable dialogue generation model to steer response generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Zhe Hu , Zhiwei Cao , Hou Pong Chan , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Jinsong Su , Hua Wu

This paper describes our approach in DSTC 8 Track 4: Schema-Guided Dialogue State Tracking. The goal of this task is to predict the intents and slots in each user turn to complete the dialogue state tracking (DST) based on the information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Yue Ma , Zengfeng Zeng , Dawei Zhu , Xuan Li , Yiying Yang , Xiaoyuan Yao , Kaijie Zhou , Jianping Shen

As robotic technology rapidly develops, robots are being employed in an increasing number of fields. However, due to the complexity of deployment environments or the prevalence of ambiguous-condition objects, the practical application of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhen Luo , Yixuan Yang , Yanfu Zhang , Feng Zheng

Many existing conversation models that are based on the encoder-decoder framework have focused on ways to make the encoder more complicated to enrich the context vectors so as to increase the diversity and informativeness of generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Bin Sun , Shaoxiong Feng , Yiwei Li , Jiamou Liu , Kan Li

Ever since the successful application of sequence to sequence learning for neural machine translation systems, interest has surged in its applicability towards language generation in other problem domains. Recent work has investigated the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Sharath T. S. , Shubhangi Tandon , Ryan Bauer

Large Language Models (LLMs) agents are increasingly pivotal for addressing complex tasks in interactive environments. Existing work mainly focuses on enhancing performance through behavior cloning from stronger experts, yet such approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Siyu Yuan , Zehui Chen , Zhiheng Xi , Junjie Ye , Zhengyin Du , Jiecao Chen

Dialogue state trackers have made significant progress on benchmark datasets, but their generalization capability to novel and realistic scenarios beyond the held-out conversations is less understood. We propose controllable counterfactuals…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Shiyang Li , Semih Yavuz , Kazuma Hashimoto , Jia Li , Tong Niu , Nazneen Rajani , Xifeng Yan , Yingbo Zhou , Caiming Xiong

The evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced multi-turn conversation systems, emphasizing the need for proactive guidance to enhance users' interactions. However, these systems face challenges in dynamically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Xiaoyu Li , Xiao Li , Li Gao , Yiding Liu , Xiaoyang Wang , Shuaiqiang Wang , Junfeng Wang , Dawei Yin

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) capture user preference through textual information in dialogues. However, they suffer from data sparsity on two fronts: the dialogue space is vast and linguistically diverse, while the item space…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Sixiao Zhang , Mingrui Liu , Cheng Long , Wei Yuan , Hongxu Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Hongzhi Yin

In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework for goal-oriented communication assisted by reconfigurable meta-surfaces in the context of networked control systems. The relation to goal-oriented communication stems from the fact that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Mohamad Assaad , Touraj Soleymani

In this study, we introduce the Conversation Progress Guide (CPG), a system designed for text-based conversational AI interactions that provides a visual interface to represent progress. Users often encounter failures when interacting with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Daeun Jeong , Sungbok Shin , Jongwook Jeong

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated significant potential on complex visual understanding tasks through iterative optimization methods.However, these models generally lack effective self-correction mechanisms, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Shimin Wen , Zeyu Zhang , Xingdou Bian , Hongjie Zhu , Lulu He , Layi Shama , Daji Ergu , Ying Cai

End-to-end models for goal-orientated dialogue are challenging to train, because linguistic and strategic aspects are entangled in latent state vectors. We introduce an approach to learning representations of messages in dialogues by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Denis Yarats , Mike Lewis

Recent reasoning-augmented Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have improved the interpretability of end-to-end autonomous driving by generating intermediate reasoning traces. Yet these models primarily describe what they perceive and…

In this work, we propose a novel framework that integrates large language models (LLMs) with an RL-based dialogue manager for open-ended dialogue with a specific goal. By leveraging hierarchical reinforcement learning to model the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Lucie Galland , Catherine Pelachaud , Florian Pecune

Generative AI has significantly advanced text-driven image generation, but it still faces challenges in producing outputs that consistently align with evolving user preferences and intents, particularly in multi-turn dialogue scenarios. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Kun Li , Jianhui Wang , Miao Zhang , Xueqian Wang

Sequence-to-sequence models have been applied to the conversation response generation problem where the source sequence is the conversation history and the target sequence is the response. Unlike translation, conversation responding is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Louis Shao , Stephan Gouws , Denny Britz , Anna Goldie , Brian Strope , Ray Kurzweil

Conversational agents have traditionally been developed for either task-oriented dialogue (TOD) or open-ended chitchat, with limited progress in unifying the two. Yet, real-world conversations naturally involve fluid transitions between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yejin Yoon , Yuri Son , Namyoung So , Minseo Kim , Minsoo Cho , Chanhee Park , Seungshin Lee , Taeuk Kim

Growing attention has been paid in Conversational Recommendation System (CRS), which works as a conversation-based and recommendation task-oriented tool to provide items of interest and explore user preference. However, existing work in CRS…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Bingbing Wen , Xiaoning Bu , Chirag Shah