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How do we update AI memory of user intent as intent changes? We consider how an AI interface may assist the integration of new information into a repository of natural language data. Inspired by software engineering concepts like impact…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Priyan Vaithilingam , Munyeong Kim , Frida-Cecilia Acosta-Parenteau , Daniel Lee , Amine Mhedhbi , Elena L. Glassman , Ian Arawjo

Modern conversational AI systems support natural language understanding for a wide variety of capabilities. While a majority of these tasks can be accomplished using a simple and flat representation of intents and slots, more sophisticated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Ke Tran , Ming Tan

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) aims to make machine learning models transparent and trustworthy, yet most current approaches communicate explanations visually or through text. This paper introduces an information theoretic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Mona Rajhans , Vishal Khawarey

Memory is critical for dialogue agents to maintain coherence and enable continuous adaptation in long-term interactions. While existing memory mechanisms offer basic storage and retrieval capabilities, they are hindered by two primary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Huhai Zou , Tianhao Sun , Chuanjiang He , Yu Tian , Zhenyang Li , Li Jin , Nayu Liu , Jiang Zhong , Kaiwen Wei

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in long running workflows, where they must preserve user and task state across many turns. Many existing agent memory systems behave like external databases with ad hoc read/write…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Pearl Mody , Mihir Panchal , Rishit Kar , Kiran Bhowmick , Ruhina Karani

Long-running autonomous AI agents suffer from a well-documented memory coherence problem: tool-execution success rates degrade 14 percentage points over 72-hour operation windows due to four compounding failure modes in existing flat-file…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Bronislav Sidik , Lior Rokach

Inspired by the cognitive science theory of the explicit human memory systems, we have modeled an agent with short-term, episodic, and semantic memory systems, each of which is modeled with a knowledge graph. To evaluate this system and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Taewoon Kim , Michael Cochez , Vincent François-Lavet , Mark Neerincx , Piek Vossen

Deploying large language models in long-horizon, goal-oriented interactions remains challenging because similar entities and facts recur under different latent goals and constraints, causing memory systems to retrieve context-mismatched…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Ruozhen Yang , Yucheng Jiang , Yueqi Jiang , Priyanka Kargupta , Yunyi Zhang , Jiawei Han

Large language model agents heavily rely on external memory to support knowledge reuse and complex reasoning tasks. Yet most memory systems store experiences in a single global retrieval pool which can gradually dilute or corrupt stored…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Taeyun Roh , Wonjune Jang , Junha Jung , Jaewoo Kang

Conversational semantic role labeling (CSRL) is believed to be a crucial step towards dialogue understanding. However, it remains a major challenge for existing CSRL parser to handle conversational structural information. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Han Wu , Kun Xu , Linqi Song

Vast improvements in natural language understanding and speech recognition have paved the way for conversational interaction with computers. While conversational agents have often been used for short goal-oriented dialog, we know little…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Jessica Van Brummelen , Kevin Weng , Phoebe Lin , Catherine Yeo

Explainable AI (XAI) is an active research area to interpret a neural network's decision by ensuring transparency and trust in the task-specified learned models. Recently, perturbation-based model analysis has shown better interpretation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Mahesh Sudhakar , Sam Sattarzadeh , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Jongseong Jang , Yeonjeong Jeong , Hyunwoo Kim

LLM-based conversational agents still struggle to maintain coherent, personalized interaction over many sessions: fixed context windows limit how much history can be kept in view, and most external memory approaches trade off between coarse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Sizhe Zhou , Jiawei Han

We present a novel framework designed to extend model reconciliation approaches, commonly used in human-aware planning, for enhanced human-AI interaction. By adopting a structured argumentation-based dialogue paradigm, our framework enables…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Stylianos Loukas Vasileiou , Ashwin Kumar , William Yeoh , Tran Cao Son , Francesca Toni

Research in explainable AI (XAI) aims to provide insights into the decision-making process of opaque AI models. To date, most XAI methods offer one-off and static explanations, which cannot cater to the diverse backgrounds and understanding…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Tong Zhang , X. Jessie Yang , Boyang Li

With the rapid development of large language models, AI assistants like ChatGPT have become increasingly integrated into people's works and lives but are limited in personalized services. In this paper, we present a plug-and-play framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ruifeng Yuan , Shichao Sun , Yongqi Li , Zili Wang , Ziqiang Cao , Wenjie Li

Research funding discovery remains fundamentally fragmented: researchers navigate disparate agency portals (e.g., in the United States, NSF, NIH, DARPA, Grants.gov, and many others) with heterogeneous interfaces, search capabilities, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhisheng Tang , Mayank Kejriwal

Current conversational AI systems aim to understand a set of pre-designed requests and execute related actions, which limits them to evolve naturally and adapt based on human interactions. Motivated by how children learn their first…

Enterprise conversational AI systems are becoming increasingly popular to assist users in completing daily tasks such as those in marketing and customer management. However, new users often struggle to ask effective questions, especially in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xiaobin Shen , Daniel Lee , Sumit Ranjan , Sai Sree Harsha , Pawan Sevak , Yunyao Li

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as intelligent agents that reason, plan, and interact with their environments. To effectively scale to long-horizon scenarios, a key capability for such agents is a memory mechanism…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yuyang Hu , Jiongnan Liu , Jiejun Tan , Yutao Zhu , Zhicheng Dou