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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

Tool-calling is essential for Large Language Model (LLM) agents to complete real-world tasks. While most existing benchmarks assume simple, perfectly documented tools, real-world tools (e.g., general "search" APIs) are often opaque, lacking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Skyler Hallinan , Thejas Venkatesh , Xiang Ren , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Ashwin Paranjape , Yuhao Zhang , Jack Hessel

Recently, the development of large language models (LLMs) has been significantly enhanced the question answering and dialogue generation, and makes them become increasingly popular in current practical scenarios. While unlike the general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zhiyuan Hu , Yue Feng , Yang Deng , Zekun Li , See-Kiong Ng , Anh Tuan Luu , Bryan Hooi

Phone automation agents aim to autonomously perform a given natural-language user request, such as scheduling appointments or booking a hotel. While much research effort has been devoted to screen understanding and action planning, complex…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Noam Kahlon , Guy Rom , Anatoly Efros , Filippo Galgani , Omri Berkovitch , Sapir Caduri , William E. Bishop , Oriana Riva , Ido Dagan

In order for robots and other artificial agents to efficiently learn to perform useful tasks defined by an end user, they must understand not only the goals of those tasks, but also the structure and dynamics of that user's environment.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Robert Loftin , Bei Peng , Matthew E. Taylor , Michael L. Littman , David L. Roberts

Recent advances in large language models have enabled LLM-based agents to achieve strong performance on a variety of benchmarks. However, their performance in real-world deployments often that observed on benchmark settings, especially in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ruipeng Wang , Yuxin Chen , Yukai Wang , Chang Wu , Junfeng Fang , Xiaodong Cai , Qi Gu , Hui Su , An Zhang , Xiang Wang , Xunliang Cai , Tat-Seng Chua

While current chat-based AI assistants primarily operate reactively, responding only when prompted by users, there is significant potential for these systems to proactively assist in tasks without explicit invocation, enabling a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Valerie Chen , Alan Zhu , Sebastian Zhao , Hussein Mozannar , David Sontag , Ameet Talwalkar

Agentic systems powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in tackling complex, long-horizon tasks. However, their efficacy is fundamentally constrained by static configurations governing agent behaviors,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jingqi Zhou , Sheng Wang , DeZhao Deng , Junwen Lu , Junwei Su , Qintong Li , Jiahui Gao , Hao Wu , Jiyue Jiang , Lingpeng Kong , Chuan Wu

Modeling agent behavior is central to understanding the emergence of complex phenomena in multiagent systems. Prior work in agent modeling has largely been task-specific and driven by hand-engineering domain-specific prior knowledge. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Aditya Grover , Maruan Al-Shedivat , Jayesh K. Gupta , Yura Burda , Harrison Edwards

Language agents have demonstrated remarkable potential in web search and information retrieval. However, these search agents assume user queries are complete and unambiguous, an assumption that diverges from reality where users begin with…

Long-horizon search agents must manage a rapidly growing working context as they reason, call tools, and observe information. Naively accumulating all intermediate content can overwhelm the agent, increasing costs and the risk of errors. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yijun Lu , Rui Ye , Yuwen Du , Jiajun Wang , Songhua Liu , Siheng Chen

Intelligent agents must autonomously interact with the environments to perform daily tasks based on human-level instructions. They need a foundational understanding of the world to accurately interpret these instructions, along with precise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Zhen Wu , Jiaman Li , Pei Xu , C. Karen Liu

Agents, as user-centric tools, are increasingly deployed for human task delegation, assisting with a broad spectrum of requests by generating thoughts, engaging with user proxies, and producing action plans. However, agents based on large…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Wenyue Hua , Mengting Wan , Shashank Vadrevu , Ryan Nadel , Yongfeng Zhang , Chi Wang

Despite the remarkable capabilities of text-to-image (T2I) generation models, real-world applications often demand fine-grained, iterative image editing that existing methods struggle to provide. Key challenges include granular instruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zihan Liang , Jiahao Sun , Haoran Ma

Human pose forecasting garners attention for its diverse applications. However, challenges in modeling the multi-modal nature of human motion and intricate interactions among agents persist, particularly with longer timescales and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Jaewoo Jeong , Daehee Park , Kuk-Jin Yoon

The dialogue systems in customer services have been developed with neural models to provide users with precise answers and round-the-clock support in task-oriented conversations by detecting customer intents based on their utterances.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yu-Chien Tang , Wei-Yao Wang , An-Zi Yen , Wen-Chih Peng

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have facilitated the widespread deployment of LLMs as interactive agents capable of reasoning, planning, and tool use. Despite strong performance on existing benchmarks, such agents often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuxin Chen , Xiaodong Cai , Junfeng Fang , Zhuowen Han , Yu Wang , Yaorui Shi , Yi Zhang , Qi Gu , Xunliang Cai , Xiang Wang , An Zhang , Tat-Seng Chua

Proactive dialogue systems aim to empower chatbots with the capability of leading conversations towards specific targets, thereby enhancing user engagement and service autonomy. Existing systems typically target pre-defined keywords or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Bowen Wu , Wenqing Wang , Haoran Li , Ying Li , Jingsong Yu , Baoxun Wang

Large language models (LLMs) and LLM-based agents are increasingly deployed as assistants in planning and decision making, yet most existing systems are implicitly optimized for a single-principal interaction paradigm, in which the model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shu Yang , Shenzhe Zhu , Hao Zhu , José Ramón Enríquez , Di Wang , Alex Pentland , Michiel A. Bakker , Jiaxin Pei

Recent studies have uncovered the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in addressing complex sequential decision-making tasks through the provision of high-level instructions. However, LLM-based agents lack specialization in tackling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zihao Zhou , Bin Hu , Chenyang Zhao , Pu Zhang , Bin Liu