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Clarifying user needs is essential for existing task-oriented dialogue systems. However, in real-world applications, developers can never guarantee that all possible user demands are taken into account in the design phase. Consequently,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Weikang Wang , Jiajun Zhang , Qian Li , Mei-Yuh Hwang , Chengqing Zong , Zhifei Li

Text-based dialogues are now widely used to solve real-world problems. In cases where solution strategies are already known, they can sometimes be codified into workflows and used to guide humans or artificial agents through the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Amine El Hattami , Stefania Raimondo , Issam Laradji , David Vazquez , Pau Rodriguez , Chris Pal

Large language model (LLM) agents have increasingly advanced service applications, such as booking flight tickets. However, these service agents suffer from unreliability in long-horizon tasks, as they often produce policy violations, tool…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zixu Yang , Hang Zheng , Nan Jiang , Zhiyang Tang , Situo Zhang , Xiaobao Wu , Lu Chen , Kai Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become a popular interface for human-AI interaction, supporting information seeking and task assistance through natural, multi-turn dialogue. To respond to users within multi-turn dialogues, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Fengran Mo , Yifan Gao , Sha Li , Hansi Zeng , Xin Liu , Zhaoxuan Tan , Xian Li , Jianshu Chen , Dakuo Wang , Meng Jiang

Due to the dynamically evolving nature of real-world query streams, relevance models struggle to generalize to practical search scenarios. A sophisticated solution is self-evolution techniques. However, in large-scale industrial settings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenglong Wang , Canjia Li , Xingzhao Zhu , Yifu Huo , Huiyu Wang , Weixiong Lin , Yun Yang , Qiaozhi He , Tianhua Zhou , Xiaojia Chang , Jingbo Zhu , Tong Xiao

Many efforts have been made to construct dialog systems for different types of conversations, such as task-oriented dialog (TOD) and open-domain dialog (ODD). To better mimic human-level conversations that usually fuse various dialog modes,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Miaoran Li , Baolin Peng , Michel Galley , Jianfeng Gao , Zhu Zhang

This paper presents a novel open-domain dialogue generation model emphasizing the differentiation of speakers in multi-turn conversations. Differing from prior work that solely relies on the content of conversation history to generate a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Zihao Wang , Ming Jiang , Junli Wang

Existing dialog system models require extensive human annotations and are difficult to generalize to different tasks. The recent success of large pre-trained language models such as BERT and GPT-2 (Devlin et al., 2019; Radford et al., 2019)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Qingyang Wu , Yichi Zhang , Yu Li , Zhou Yu

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as valuable tools for many natural language understanding tasks. In safety-critical applications such as healthcare, the utility of these models is governed by their ability to generate outputs that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Varun Nair , Elliot Schumacher , Geoffrey Tso , Anitha Kannan

Simulation is an invaluable tool for developing and evaluating controllers for self-driving cars. Current simulation frameworks are driven by highly-specialist domain specific languages, and so a natural language interface would greatly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Antonio Valerio Miceli-Barone , Alex Lascarides , Craig Innes

Enterprise interest in multi-agent systems has shifted from generic software agents to large-language-model (LLM) based intelligent agents that plan, use tools, maintain contextual memory, inspect intermediate results, collaborate with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-12 John deVadoss

Large language model (LLM) agents show promise in an increasing number of domains. In many proposed applications, it is expected that the agent reasons over accumulated experience presented in an input prompt. We propose the OEDD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Sonny George , Chris Sypherd , Dylan Cashman

Task-oriented dialogue (ToD) benchmarks provide an important avenue to measure progress and develop better conversational agents. However, existing datasets for end-to-end ToD modeling are limited to a single language, hindering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zhaojiang Lin , Andrea Madotto , Genta Indra Winata , Peng Xu , Feijun Jiang , Yuxiang Hu , Chen Shi , Pascale Fung

Proactive task-oriented dialogue (TOD), such as outbound sales, demands a persuasive agent that actively probes the user's concerns and steers the conversation toward acceptance within a bounded number of turns. Yet post-trained LLMs are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Hongbin Zhang , Ning Gao , Yuqin Dai , Ruiyuan Wu , Jinpeng Wang , Rena Wei Gao , Bingdong Tan , Shuzheng Gao , Zongjie Li , Chaozheng Wang

Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems have become crucial components in interactive artificial intelligence applications. While recent advances have capitalized on pre-trained language models (PLMs), they exhibit limitations regarding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Sungryull Sohn , Yiwei Lyu , Anthony Liu , Lajanugen Logeswaran , Dong-Ki Kim , Dongsub Shim , Honglak Lee

Context: Large Language Model (LLM) agents are becoming widely used for various Requirements Engineering (RE) tasks. Research on improving their accuracy mainly focuses on prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, and retrieval augmented…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Marc Oriol , Quim Motger , Jordi Marco , Xavier Franch

Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems are drawing more and more attention in recent studies. Current methods focus on constructing pre-trained models or fine-tuning strategies while the evaluation of TOD is limited by a policy mismatch…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Qinyuan Cheng , Linyang Li , Guofeng Quan , Feng Gao , Xiaofeng Mou , Xipeng Qiu

Multi-agent collaboration has emerged as a pivotal paradigm for addressing complex, distributed tasks in large language model (LLM)-driven applications. While prior research has focused on high-level architectural frameworks, the granular…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haochun Wang , Sendong Zhao , Jingbo Wang , Zewen Qiang , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

User Satisfaction Estimation is an important task and increasingly being applied in goal-oriented dialogue systems to estimate whether the user is satisfied with the service. It is observed that whether the user's needs are met often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Kaisong Song , Yangyang Kang , Jiawei Liu , Xurui Li , Changlong Sun , Xiaozhong Liu

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced in various fields and intelligent agent applications. However, current LLMs that learn from human or external model supervision are costly and may face performance ceilings as task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zhengwei Tao , Ting-En Lin , Xiancai Chen , Hangyu Li , Yuchuan Wu , Yongbin Li , Zhi Jin , Fei Huang , Dacheng Tao , Jingren Zhou