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The next step for intelligent dialog agents is to escape their role as silent bystanders and become proactive. Well-defined proactive behavior may improve human-machine cooperation, as the agent takes a more active role during interaction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Matthias Kraus , Nicolas Wagner , Ron Riekenbrauck , Wolfgang Minker

The increasing deployment of autonomous AI agents on the web is hampered by a fundamental misalignment: agents must infer affordances from human-oriented user interfaces, leading to brittle, inefficient, and insecure interactions. To…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sven Schultze , Meike Verena Kietzmann , Nils-Lucas Schönfeld , Ruth Stock-Homburg

Training AI agents to proactively assist humans in daily activities, from routine household tasks to urgent safety situations, requires large-scale visual data. However, capturing such scenarios in the real world is often difficult, costly,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yu-Hsiang Liu , Yu-Chien Tang , An-Zi Yen

Creating effective dialogue systems for mental health support requires high-quality multi-turn counseling dialogue data, yet collecting real counselor-client conversations presents significant challenges, including privacy concerns, high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Huachuan Qiu , Zhenzhong Lan

This technical brief introduces Deep Agent, an advanced autonomous AI system designed to manage complex multi-phase tasks through a novel hierarchical task management architecture. The system's foundation is built on our Hierarchical Task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Amy Yu , Erik Lebedev , Lincoln Everett , Xiaoxin Chen , Terry Chen

Making a decision in a changeable and dynamic environment is an arduous task owing to the lack of information, their uncertainties and the unawareness of planners about the future evolution of incidents. The use of a decision support system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-04-21 Fahem Kebair , Frederic Serin

Due to the lack of human resources for mental health support, there is an increasing demand for employing conversational agents for support. Recent work has demonstrated the effectiveness of dialogue models in providing emotional support.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jiale Cheng , Sahand Sabour , Hao Sun , Zhuang Chen , Minlie Huang

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

Facing scaling laws, video data from the internet becomes increasingly important. However, collecting extensive videos that meet specific needs is extremely labor-intensive and time-consuming. In this work, we study the way to expedite this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yidan Zhang , Mutian Xu , Yiming Hao , Kun Zhou , Jiahao Chang , Xiaoqiang Liu , Pengfei Wan , Hongbo Fu , Xiaoguang Han

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into daily life, there is growing demand for AI assistants that are not only reactive but also proactive and personalized. While recent advances have pushed forward proactivity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jiho Kim , Junseong Choi , Woosog Chay , Daeun Kyung , Yeonsu Kwon , Yohan Jo , Edward Choi

The development of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models has been significantly accelerated by pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, most existing end-to-end VLAs treat the VLM primarily as a multimodal encoder, directly mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yi Chen , Yuying Ge , Hui Zhou , Mingyu Ding , Yixiao Ge , Xihui Liu

In large-scale cloud service systems, support tickets serve as a critical mechanism for resolving customer issues and maintaining service quality. However, traditional manual ticket escalation processes encounter significant challenges,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Fengrui Liu , Xiao He , Tieying Zhang , Jianjun Chen , Yi Li , Lihua Yi , Haipeng Zhang , Gang Wu , Rui Shi

Recent end-to-end spoken dialogue models enable natural interaction. However, as user demands become increasingly complex, models that rely solely on conversational abilities often struggle to cope. Incorporating agentic capabilities is…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tianle Liang , Yifu Chen , Shengpeng Ji , Yijun Chen , Zhiyang Jia , Jingyu Lu , Fan Zhuo , Xueyi Pu , Yangzhuo Li , Zhou Zhao

Large language model (LLM)-based evolution is a promising approach for open-ended discovery, where progress requires sustained search and knowledge accumulation. Existing methods still rely heavily on fixed heuristics and hard-coded…

Artificial intelligence systems increasingly involve continual learning to enable flexibility in general situations that are not encountered during system training. Human interaction with autonomous systems is broadly studied, but research…

Deep Research (DR) agents extend Large Language Models (LLMs) beyond parametric knowledge by autonomously retrieving and synthesizing evidence from large web corpora into long-form reports, enabling a long-horizon agentic paradigm. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Haohao Luo , Zexi Li , Yuexiang Xie , Wenhao Zhang , Yaliang Li , Ying Shen

We will demonstrate a conversational products recommendation agent. This system shows how we combine research in personalized recommendation systems with research in dialogue systems to build a virtual sales agent. Based on new deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Yueming Sun , Yi Zhang , Yunfei Chen , Roger Jin

Though great progress has been made for human-machine conversation, current dialogue system is still in its infancy: it usually converses passively and utters words more as a matter of response, rather than on its own initiatives. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Wenquan Wu , Zhen Guo , Xiangyang Zhou , Hua Wu , Xiyuan Zhang , Rongzhong Lian , Haifeng Wang

As generative AI enters enterprise workflows, ensuring compliance with legal, ethical, and reputational standards becomes a pressing challenge. In beauty tech, where biometric and personal data are central, traditional reviews are often…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Junwei Li , Wenqing Wang , Huiliu Mao , Jiazhe Ni , Zeyu Xiong

The field of conversational information seeking, which is rapidly gaining interest in both academia and industry, is changing how we interact with search engines through natural language interactions. Existing datasets and methods are…

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