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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

There is a high demand for high-quality Non-Player Characters (NPCs) in video games. Hand-crafting their behavior is a labor intensive and error prone engineering process with limited controls exposed to the game designers. We propose to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Igor Borovikov , Jesse Harder , Michael Sadovsky , Ahmad Beirami

Speech synthesis is crucial for human-computer interaction, enabling natural and intuitive communication. However, existing datasets involve high construction costs due to manual annotation and suffer from limited character diversity,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xiang Li , Duyi Pan , Hongru Xiao , Jiale Han , Jing Tang , Jiabao Ma , Wei Wang , Bo Cheng

In order to build self-consistent personalized dialogue agents, previous research has mostly focused on textual persona that delivers personal facts or personalities. However, to fully describe the multi-faceted nature of persona, image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jaewoo Ahn , Yeda Song , Sangdoo Yun , Gunhee Kim

Linear programming (LP) problems are pervasive in real-life applications. However, despite their apparent simplicity, an untrained user may find it difficult to determine the linear model of their specific problem. We envisage the creation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Yelaman Abdullin , Diego Molla-Aliod , Bahadorreza Ofoghi , John Yearwood , Qingyang Li

Since the introduction of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the number of available tools for Large Language Models (LLMs) has increased significantly. These task-specific tool sets offer an alternative to general-purpose tools such as web…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Reza Esfandiarpoor , Vishwas Suryanarayanan , Stephen H. Bach , Vishal Chowdhary , Anthony Aue

This work presents a requirement analysis for collaborative dialogues among medical experts and an inquiry dialogue game based on this analysis for incorporating explainability into multiagent system design. The game allows experts with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Qurat-ul-ain Shaheen , Katarzyna Budzynska , Carles Sierra

We propose Machines Talking To Machines (M2M), a framework combining automation and crowdsourcing to rapidly bootstrap end-to-end dialogue agents for goal-oriented dialogues in arbitrary domains. M2M scales to new tasks with just a task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Pararth Shah , Dilek Hakkani-Tür , Gokhan Tür , Abhinav Rastogi , Ankur Bapna , Neha Nayak , Larry Heck

Current conversational AI systems often provide generic, one-size-fits-all interactions that overlook individual user characteristics and lack adaptive dialogue management. To address this gap, we introduce \textbf{HumAIne-chatbot}, an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Georgios Makridis , George Fragiadakis , Jorge Oliveira , Tomaz Saraiva , Philip Mavrepis , Georgios Fatouros , Dimosthenis Kyriazis

We present an end-to-end voice-based conversational agent that is able to engage in naturalistic multi-turn dialogue and align with the interlocutor's conversational style. The system uses a series of deep neural network components for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Rens Hoegen , Deepali Aneja , Daniel McDuff , Mary Czerwinski

Open-domain dialogue systems have seen remarkable advancements with the development of large language models (LLMs). Nonetheless, most existing dialogue systems predominantly focus on brief single-session interactions, neglecting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Hao Li , Chenghao Yang , An Zhang , Yang Deng , Xiang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Many users communicate with chatbots and AI assistants in order to help them with various tasks. A key component of the assistant is the ability to understand and answer a user's natural language questions for question-answering (QA).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Anthony Colas , Trung Bui , Franck Dernoncourt , Moumita Sinha , Doo Soon Kim

Grounding dialogue on external knowledge and interpreting linguistic patterns in dialogue history context, such as ellipsis, anaphora, and co-references is critical for dialogue comprehension and generation. In this paper, we present a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Deeksha Varshney , Akshara Prabhakar , Asif Ekbal

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized open-domain dialogue agents but encounter challenges in multi-character role-playing (MCRP) scenarios. To address the issue, we present Neeko, an innovative framework designed for efficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xiaoyan Yu , Tongxu Luo , Yifan Wei , Fangyu Lei , Yiming Huang , Hao Peng , Liehuang Zhu

We propose a new benchmark, ComperDial, which facilitates the training and evaluation of evaluation metrics for open-domain dialogue systems. ComperDial consists of human-scored responses for 10,395 dialogue turns in 1,485 conversations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Hiromi Wakaki , Yuki Mitsufuji , Yoshinori Maeda , Yukiko Nishimura , Silin Gao , Mengjie Zhao , Keiichi Yamada , Antoine Bosselut

Testing humanoid robots with users is slow, causes wear, and limits iteration and diversity. Yet screening agents must master conversational timing, prosody, backchannels, and what to attend to in faces and speech for Depression and PTSD.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Filippo Cenacchi , Deborah Richards , Longbing Cao

Personalized dialogue systems are an essential step toward better human-machine interaction. Existing personalized dialogue agents rely on properly designed conversational datasets, which are mostly monolingual (e.g., English), which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Zhaojiang Lin , Zihan Liu , Genta Indra Winata , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Andrea Madotto , Yejin Bang , Etsuko Ishii , Pascale Fung

Building a persona-based conversation agent is challenging owing to the lack of large amounts of speaker-specific conversation data for model training. This paper addresses the problem by proposing a multi-task learning approach to training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Yi Luan , Chris Brockett , Bill Dolan , Jianfeng Gao , Michel Galley

Non-goal oriented dialog agents (i.e. chatbots) aim to produce varying and engaging conversations with a user; however, they typically exhibit either inconsistent personality across conversations or the average personality of all users.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Alex Boyd , Raul Puri , Mohammad Shoeybi , Mostofa Patwary , Bryan Catanzaro

Text-to-image generation has advanced rapidly, but existing models still struggle with faithfully composing multiple objects and preserving their attributes in complex scenes. We propose coDrawAgents, an interactive multi-agent dialogue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Chunhan Li , Qifeng Wu , Jia-Hui Pan , Ka-Hei Hui , Jingyu Hu , Yuming Jiang , Bin Sheng , Xihui Liu , Wenjuan Gong , Zhengzhe Liu