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Task-oriented dialogue systems aim at providing users with task-specific services. Users of such systems often do not know all the information about the task they are trying to accomplish, requiring them to seek information about the task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yue Feng , Hossein A. Rahmani , Aldo Lipani , Emine Yilmaz

We present the notion of explainability for decision-making processes in a pedagogically structured autonomous environment. Multi-agent systems that are structured pedagogically consist of pedagogical teachers and learners that operate in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Minal Suresh Patil

Real-world multi-hop QA is naturally linked with ambiguity, where a single query can trigger multiple reasoning paths that require independent resolution. Since ambiguity can occur at any stage, models must navigate layered uncertainty…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jeonghyun Park , Ingeol Baek , Seunghyun Yoon , Haeun Jang , Aparna Garimella , Akriti Jain , Nedim Lipka , Hwanhee Lee

The task of conducting visually grounded dialog involves learning goal-oriented cooperative dialog between autonomous agents who exchange information about a scene through several rounds of questions and answers in natural language. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Akshat Agarwal , Swaminathan Gurumurthy , Vasu Sharma , Mike Lewis , Katia Sycara

Generating natural language explanations for recommendations has become increasingly important in recommender systems. Traditional approaches typically treat user reviews as ground truth for explanations and focus on improving review…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jingsen Zhang , Zihang Tian , Xueyang Feng , Xu Chen

Current speech agent interactions are typically user-initiated, limiting the interactions they can deliver. Future functionality will require agents to be proactive, sometimes interrupting users. Little is known about how these spoken…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Justin Edwards , Christian Janssen , Sandy Gould , Benjamin R Cowan

Active-passive multiagent systems consist of agents subject to inputs (active agents) and agents with no inputs (passive agents), where active and passive agent roles are considered to be interchangeable in order to capture a wide array of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Ehsan Arabi , Dimitra Panagou , Tansel Yucelen

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results in natural language understanding, yet their reasoning capabilities remain limited when operating as single agents. Multi-Agent Debate (MAD) has been proposed to address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Xiao Wang , Jia Wang , Yijie Wang , Pengtao Dang , Sha Cao , Chi Zhang

Task-oriented dialogue is difficult in part because it involves understanding user intent, collecting information from the user, executing API calls, and generating helpful and fluent responses. However, for complex tasks one must also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Stefania Raimondo , Christopher Pal , Xiaotian Liu , David Vazquez , Hector Palacios

When deciding how to act under uncertainty, agents may choose to act to reduce uncertainty or they may act despite that uncertainty. In communicative settings, an important way of reducing uncertainty is by asking clarification questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Polina Tsvilodub , Karl Mulligan , Todd Snider , Robert D. Hawkins , Michael Franke

Large Language Models (LLMs) equipped with modern Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems often employ multi-turn interaction pipelines to interface with search engines for complex reasoning tasks. However, such multi-turn interactions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yihong Wu , Liheng Ma , Muzhi Li , Jiaming Zhou , Lei Ding , Jianye Hao , Ho-fung Leung , Irwin King , Yingxue Zhang , Jian-Yun Nie

Task-oriented dialogues often require agents to enact complex, multi-step procedures in order to meet user requests. While large language models have found success automating these dialogues in constrained environments, their widespread…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Julia White , Arushi Raghuvanshi , Yada Pruksachatkun

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized Natural Language Processing but exhibit limitations, particularly in autonomously addressing novel challenges such as reasoning and problem-solving. Traditional techniques like…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Sumedh Rasal

Multi-agent debate system (MAD) imitating the process of human discussion in pursuit of truth, aims to align the correct cognition of different agents for the optimal solution. It is challenging to make various agents perform right and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Haotian Wang , Xiyuan Du , Weijiang Yu , Qianglong Chen , Kun Zhu , Zheng Chu , Lian Yan , Yi Guan

The rise of short-form video platforms and the emergence of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have amplified the need for scalable, effective, zero-shot text-to-video retrieval systems. While recent advances in large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jiaxin Wu , Xiao-Yong Wei , Qing Li

We present MA-RAG, a Multi-Agent framework for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) that addresses the inherent ambiguities and reasoning challenges in complex information-seeking tasks. Unlike conventional RAG methods that rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Thang Nguyen , Peter Chin , Yu-Wing Tai

LLM-driven multi-agent frameworks address complex reasoning tasks through multi-role collaboration. However, existing approaches often suffer from reasoning instability, where individual agent errors are amplified through collaboration,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Haoyu Bian , Chaoning Zhang , Jiaquan Zhang , Xingyao Li , Yuanfang Guo , Wei Dong , Yang Yang

Specialized visual tools can augment large language models or vision language models with expert knowledge (e.g., grounding, spatial reasoning, medical knowledge, etc.), but knowing which tools to call (and when to call them) can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Nithin Sivakumaran , Justin Chih-Yao Chen , David Wan , Yue Zhang , Jaehong Yoon , Elias Stengel-Eskin , Mohit Bansal

Relevance is a foundation of user experience in e-commerce search. We view relevance optimization as a closed-loop ecosystem involving multiple human roles: users who provide feedback, product managers who define standards, annotators who…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Commerce Search Relevance Team

Text-to-image generation tasks have driven remarkable advances in diverse media applications, yet most focus on single-turn scenarios and struggle with iterative, multi-turn creative tasks. Recent dialogue-based systems attempt to bridge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shichao Ma , Yunhe Guo , Jiahao Su , Qihe Huang , Zhengyang Zhou , Yang Wang