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Dialogue engines that incorporate different types of agents to converse with humans are popular. However, conversations are dynamic in the sense that a selected response will change the conversation on-the-fly, influencing the subsequent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Asir Saeed , Khai Mai , Pham Minh , Nguyen Tuan Duc , Danushka Bollegala

In this paper, we extended the method proposed in [21] to enable humans to interact naturally with autonomous agents through vocal and textual conversations. Our extended method exploits the inherent capabilities of pre-trained large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Linus Nwankwo , Elmar Rueckert

Training a task-completion dialogue agent via reinforcement learning (RL) is costly because it requires many interactions with real users. One common alternative is to use a user simulator. However, a user simulator usually lacks the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Baolin Peng , Xiujun Li , Jianfeng Gao , Jingjing Liu , Kam-Fai Wong , Shang-Yu Su

To diversify and enrich generated dialogue responses, knowledge-grounded dialogue has been investigated in recent years. The existing methods tackle the knowledge grounding challenge by retrieving the relevant sentences over a large corpus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yan Xu , Etsuko Ishii , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Zihan Liu , Genta Indra Winata , Andrea Madotto , Dan Su , Pascale Fung

This paper provides preliminary results on exploring the task of performing turn-level data augmentation for dialogue system based on different types of commonsense relationships, and the automatic evaluation of the generated synthetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia , Chen Zhang , Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar , Luis Fernando D'Haro

Conventional chatbots focus on two-party response generation, which simplifies the real dialogue scene. In this paper, we strive toward a novel task of Response Generation on Multi-Party Chatbot (RGMPC), where the generated responses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Cao Liu , Kang Liu , Shizhu He , Zaiqing Nie , Jun Zhao

We present a low-compute non-generative system for implementing interview-style conversational agents which can be used to facilitate qualitative data collection through controlled interactions and quantitative analysis. Use cases include…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Charles Welch , Allison Lahnala , Vasudha Varadarajan , Lucie Flek , Rada Mihalcea , J. Lomax Boyd , João Sedoc

Multi-agent systems powered by large language models have emerged as a promising paradigm for solving complex reasoning tasks through collaborative intelligence. However, efficiently deploying these systems on serverless GPU platforms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Guilin Zhang , Wulan Guo , Ziqi Tan

We propose a new task of conversational recommendation over multi-type dialogs, where the bots can proactively and naturally lead a conversation from a non-recommendation dialog (e.g., QA) to a recommendation dialog, taking into account…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Zeming Liu , Haifeng Wang , Zheng-Yu Niu , Hua Wu , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu

There is a growing demand for agentic AI technologies for a range of downstream applications like customer service and personal assistants. For applications where the agent needs to interact with a person, real-time low-latency…

Tool learning empowers large language models (LLMs) as agents to use external tools and extend their utility. Existing methods employ one single LLM-based agent to iteratively select and execute tools, thereafter incorporating execution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhengliang Shi , Shen Gao , Xiuyi Chen , Yue Feng , Lingyong Yan , Haibo Shi , Dawei Yin , Pengjie Ren , Suzan Verberne , Zhaochun Ren

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

Conversational agents leveraging AI, particularly deep learning, are emerging in both academic research and real-world applications. However, these applications still face challenges, including disrespecting knowledge and facts, not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Junfeng Liu , Zhuocheng Mei , Kewen Peng , Ranga Raju Vatsavai

Users interacting with voice assistants today need to phrase their requests in a very specific manner to elicit an appropriate response. This limits the user experience, and is partly due to the lack of reasoning capabilities of dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yi-Lin Tuan , Sajjad Beygi , Maryam Fazel-Zarandi , Qiaozi Gao , Alessandra Cervone , William Yang Wang

Some robots can interact with humans using natural language, and identify service requests through human-robot dialog. However, few robots are able to improve their language capabilities from this experience. In this paper, we develop a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Saeid Amiri , Sujay Bajracharya , Cihangir Goktolga , Jesse Thomason , Shiqi Zhang

Large Language Model (LLM) based agents excel at general reasoning but often fail in specialized domains where success hinges on long-tail knowledge absent from their training data. While human experts can provide this missing knowledge,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zhiming Wang , Jinwei He , Feng Lu

Smart autonomous agents are becoming increasingly important in various real-life applications, including robotics and autonomous vehicles. One crucial skill that these agents must possess is the ability to interact with their surrounding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Niyati Rawal , Roberto Bigazzi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Training task-oriented dialogue systems typically requires turn-level annotations for interacting with their APIs: e.g. a dialogue state and the system actions taken at each step. These annotations can be costly to produce, error-prone, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Brendan King , Jeffrey Flanigan

This paper presents a Large Language Model (LLM) based conversational agent system designed to enhance human-machine collaboration in Machine Learning Operations (MLOps). We introduce the Swarm Agent, an extensible architecture that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 George Fatouros , Georgios Makridis , George Kousiouris , John Soldatos , Anargyros Tsadimas , Dimosthenis Kyriazis

We propose a novel approach that uses large language models (LLMs) to generate persona-driven conversations between Players and Non-Player Characters (NPC) in games. Showcasing the application of our methodology, we introduce the Minecraft…