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Recent advancements in LLM agents are gradually shifting from reactive, text-based paradigms toward proactive, multimodal interaction. However, existing benchmarks primarily focus on reactive responses, overlooking the complexities of…

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Proactive dialogue systems, related to a wide range of real-world conversational applications, equip the conversational agent with the capability of leading the conversation direction towards achieving pre-defined targets or fulfilling…

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The field of conversational information seeking, which is rapidly gaining interest in both academia and industry, is changing how we interact with search engines through natural language interactions. Existing datasets and methods are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Chris Samarinas , Hamed Zamani

Recent advances in video multimodal large language models (Video MLLMs) have significantly enhanced video understanding and multi-modal interaction capabilities. While most existing systems operate in a turn-based manner where the model can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yueqian Wang , Songxiang Liu , Disong Wang , Nuo Xu , Guanglu Wan , Huishuai Zhang , Dongyan Zhao

Omni-proactive streaming video understanding, i.e., autonomously deciding when to speak and what to say from continuous audio-visual streams, is an emerging capability of omni-modal large language models. Existing benchmarks fall short in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ruixiang Zhao , Jie Yang , Zijie Xin , Tianyi Wang , Fengyun Rao , Jing LYU , Xirong Li

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on reactive question answering, but real-world streaming assistants require proactive reasoning over continuous visual inputs. Existing benchmarks mainly study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jinzhao Li , Yinuo Chen , Wenxuan Song , Yijia Lei , Yichi Zhang , Honglei Yan , Panwang Pan , Miao Liu

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

Proactive dialogue system is able to lead the conversation to a goal topic and has advantaged potential in bargain, persuasion and negotiation. Current corpus-based learning manner limits its practical application in real-world scenarios.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Wenqiang Lei , Yao Zhang , Feifan Song , Hongru Liang , Jiaxin Mao , Jiancheng Lv , Zhenglu Yang , Tat-Seng Chua

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant progress in mobile agent development, yet their capabilities are predominantly confined to a reactive paradigm, where they merely execute explicit user commands. The emerging…

Proactive and real-time interactive experiences are essential for human-like AI companions, yet face three key challenges: (1) achieving low-latency inference under continuous streaming inputs, (2) autonomously deciding when to respond, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weicai Yan , Yuhong Dai , Qi Ran , Haodong Li , Wang Lin , Tao Jin , Xing Xie , Hao Liao , Jianxun Lian

Large language models (LLMs) have evolved into interactive agents that collaborate with users in real-world tasks. Effective collaboration in such settings increasingly depends on understanding the user beyond what is explicitly stated, as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuxin Chen , Yi Zhang , Zhengzhou Cai , Yaorui Shi , Zhiyuan Yao , Chenhang Cui , Jingnan Zheng , Yaqi Huo , Xi Su , Qi Gu , Xunliang Cai , Xiang Wang , An Zhang , Tat-Seng Chua

Effective collaboration begins with knowing when to ask for help. For example, when trying to identify an occluded object, a human would ask someone to remove the obstruction. Can MLLMs exhibit a similar "proactive" behavior by requesting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Thomas De Min , Subhankar Roy , Stéphane Lathuilière , Elisa Ricci , Massimiliano Mancini

The rise of personal assistant agents, e.g., OpenClaw, highlights the growing potential of large language models to support users across everyday life and work. A core challenge in these settings is proactive assistance, since users often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Haoran Zhang , Luxin Xu , Zhilin Wang , Runquan Gui , Shunkai Zhang , Haodi Lei , Zihao He , Bingsu He , Chicheng Qin , Tong Zhu , Xiaoye Qu , Yang Yang , Yu Cheng , Yafu Li

Current Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents operate primarily under a reactive paradigm: a user must provide an explicit instruction for the agent to execute a task. However, an intelligent AI assistant should be proactive, which is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuxiang Chai , Shunye Tang , Han Xiao , Rui Liu , Hongsheng Li

Embodied social agents have recently advanced in generating synchronized speech and gestures. However, most interactive systems remain fundamentally reactive, responding only to current sensory inputs within a short temporal window.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zeyi Zhang , Zixi Kang , Ruijie Zhao , Yusen Feng , Biao Jiang , Libin Liu

Existing reasoning evaluation paradigms suffer from different limitations: fixed benchmarks are increasingly saturated and vulnerable to contamination, while preference-based evaluations rely on subjective judgments. We argue that a core…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Baoqing Yue , Zihan Zhu , Yutong Han , Brian Fan , Qian Sun , Jichen Feng , Hufei Yang , Yifan Zhang , Mengdi Wang

Research demonstrates that the proactivity of in-vehicle conversational assistants (IVCAs) can help to reduce distractions and enhance driving safety, better meeting users' cognitive needs. However, existing IVCAs struggle with user intent…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Huifang Du , Xuejing Feng , Jun Ma , Meng Wang , Shiyu Tao , Yijie Zhong , Yuan-Fang Li , Haofen Wang

Multimodal systems have great potential to assist humans in procedural activities, where people follow instructions to achieve their goals. Despite diverse application scenarios, systems are typically evaluated on traditional classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Kimihiro Hasegawa , Wiradee Imrattanatrai , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Masaki Asada , Susan Holm , Yuran Wang , Ken Fukuda , Teruko Mitamura

Existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remain primarily reactive, failing to continuously perceive environments or proactively assist users. While emerging benchmarks address proactivity, they are largely confined to alert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Dongchuan Ran , Linyu Ou , Xueheng Li , Wenwen Tong , Chenxu Guo , Hewei Guo , Kaibing Wang , Lewei Lu

Proactive dialogue has emerged as a critical and challenging research problem in advancing large language models (LLMs). Existing works predominantly focus on domain-specific or task-oriented scenarios, which leads to fragmented evaluations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Tianjian Liu , Fanqi Wan , Jiajian Guo , Xiaojun Quan
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