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Communication between humans and artificial agents is essential for their interaction. This is often inspired by human communication, which uses gestures, facial expressions, gaze direction, and other explicit and implicit means. This work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Ana Christina Almada Campos , Bruno Vilhena Adorno

Understanding user intent is essential for effective planning in conversational assistants, particularly those powered by large language models (LLMs) coordinating multiple agents. However, real-world dialogues are often ambiguous,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kushan Mitra , Dan Zhang , Hannah Kim , Estevam Hruschka

Interacting with human agents in complex scenarios presents a significant challenge for robotic navigation, particularly in environments that necessitate both collision avoidance and collaborative interaction, such as indoor spaces. Unlike…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Lingfeng Sun , Yixiao Wang , Pin-Yun Hung , Changhao Wang , Xiang Zhang , Zhuo Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Orchestrated multi-agent systems represent the next stage in the evolution of artificial intelligence, where autonomous agents collaborate through structured coordination and communication to achieve complex, shared objectives. This paper…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Apoorva Adimulam , Rajesh Gupta , Sumit Kumar

Robust coordination is critical for effective decision-making in multi-agent systems, especially under partial observability. A central question in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is whether to engineer communication protocols or…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Brennen A. Hill , Mant Koh En Wei , Thangavel Jishnuanandh

Communication lays the foundation for human cooperation. It is also crucial for multi-agent cooperation. However, existing work focuses on broadcast communication, which is not only impractical but also leads to information redundancy that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Ziluo Ding , Tiejun Huang , Zongqing Lu

Agent communication protocols are becoming critical infrastructure for large language model (LLM) systems that must use tools, coordinate with other agents, and operate across heterogeneous environments. This work presents a human-inspired…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Dun Yuan , Fuyuan Lyu , Ye Yuan , Weixu Zhang , Bowei He , Jiayi Geng , Linfeng Du , Zipeng Sun , Yankai Chen , Changjiang Han , Jikun Kang , Xi Chen , Haolun Wu , Xue Liu

Current communication technologies face limitations in terms of theoretical capacity, spectrum availability, and power resources. Pragmatic communication, leveraging terminal intelligence for selective data transmission, offers resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jiaxuan Li , Minxi Yang , Dahua Gao , Wenlong Xu , Guangming Shi

This paper presents a framework for multi-agent navigation in structured but dynamic environments, integrating three key components: a shared semantic map encoding metric and semantic environmental knowledge, a claim policy for coordinating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Koen de Vos , Elena Torta , Herman Bruyninckx , Cesar Lopez Martinez , Rene van de Molengraft

The human-agent team, which is a problem in which humans and autonomous agents collaborate to achieve one task, is typical in human-AI collaboration. For effective collaboration, humans want to have an effective plan, but in realistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Ryo Nakahashi , Seiji Yamada

Achieving seamless coordination in cooperative games is a crucial challenge in artificial intelligence, particularly when players operate under incomplete information. While communication helps, it is not always feasible. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shenghui Chen , Shufang Zhu , Giuseppe De Giacomo , Ufuk Topcu

People increasingly turn to conversational agents such as ChatGPT to seek guidance for their personal problems. As these systems grow in capability, many now display elements of "thinking": short reflective statements that reveal a model's…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Samuel Rhys Cox , Jade Martin-Lise , Simo Hosio , Niels van Berkel

Intelligent systems have traditionally been designed as tools rather than collaborators, often lacking critical characteristics that collaboration partnerships require. Recent advances in large language model (LLM) agents open new…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Bingsheng Yao , Jiaju Chen , Chaoran Chen , April Wang , Toby Jia-jun Li , Dakuo Wang

Shared autonomy (SA) enables robots to infer human intent and assist in its achievement. While most research focuses on improving intent inference, it overlooks whether humans can understand the robot's intent in return. Without such mutual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sihan Chen , Hang Xu , Yupu Lu , Chen Wang , Benfang Duan , Ruixing Jia , Jia Pan

Human-autonomy teaming (HAT) scenarios feature humans and autonomous agents collaborating to meet a shared goal. For effective collaboration, the agents must be transparent and able to share important information about their operation with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Blair Archibald , Muffy Calder , Michele Sevegnani , Mengwei Xu

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

Designing effective collaboration structure for multi-agent LLM systems to enhance collective reasoning is crucial yet remains under-explored. In this paper, we systematically investigate how collaborative reasoning performance is affected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Baixuan Xu , Chunyang Li , Weiqi Wang , Wei Fan , Tianshi Zheng , Haochen Shi , Tao Fan , Yangqiu Song , Qiang Yang

Dialogue systems often fail when user utterances are semantically complete yet lack the clarity and completeness required for appropriate system action. This mismatch arises because users frequently do not fully understand their own needs,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yaoyao Qian , Jindan Huang , Yuanli Wang , Simon Yu , Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou , Jiayuan Mao , Mingfu Liang , Hanhan Zhou

We consider communication when there is no agreement about symbols and meanings. We treat it within the framework of reinforcement learning. We apply different reinforcement learning models in our studies and simplify the problem as much as…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 A. Lorincz , V. Gyenes , M. Kiszlinger , I. Szita

There is a resurgent interest in developing intelligent open-domain dialog systems due to the availability of large amounts of conversational data and the recent progress on neural approaches to conversational AI. Unlike traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Minlie Huang , Xiaoyan Zhu , Jianfeng Gao