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Empathetic Response Generation (ERG) is one of the key tasks of the affective computing area, which aims to produce emotionally nuanced and compassionate responses to user's queries. However, existing ERG research is predominantly confined…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Han Zhang , Zixiang Meng , Meng Luo , Hong Han , Lizi Liao , Erik Cambria , Hao Fei

Multimodal Empathetic Response Generation (MERG) is crucial for building emotionally intelligent human-computer interactions. Although large language models (LLMs) have improved text-based ERG, challenges remain in handling multimodal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ronghao Lin , Shuai Shen , Weipeng Hu , Qiaolin He , Aolin Xiong , Li Huang , Haifeng Hu , Yap-peng Tan

Empathetic response generation is a crucial task for creating more human-like and supportive conversational agents. However, existing methods face a core trade-off between the analytical depth of specialized models and the generative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ziqi Liu , Ziyang Zhou , Yilin Li , Haiyang Zhang , Yangbin Chen

Empathetic response generation necessitates the integration of emotional and intentional dynamics to foster meaningful interactions. Existing research either neglects the intricate interplay between emotion and intent, leading to suboptimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiahao Yuan , Zixiang Di , Zhiqing Cui , Guisong Yang , Usman Naseem

LLM-based multimodal emotion recognition relies on static parametric memory and often hallucinates when interpreting nuanced affective states. In this paper, given that single-round retrieval-augmented generation is highly susceptible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Zeheng Wang , Zitong Yu , Yijie Zhu , Bo Zhao , Haochen Liang , Taorui Wang , Wei Xia , Jiayu Zhang , Zhishu Liu , Hui Ma , Fei Ma , Qi Tian

A humanized dialogue system is expected to generate empathetic replies, which should be sensitive to the users' expressed emotion. The task of empathetic dialogue generation is proposed to address this problem. The essential challenges lie…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Qintong Li , Hongshen Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Pengjie Ren , Zhaopeng Tu , Zhumin Chen

Empathetic response generation aims to comprehend the user emotion and then respond to it appropriately. Most existing works merely focus on what the emotion is and ignore how the emotion is evoked, thus weakening the capacity of the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jiashuo Wang , Wenjie LI , Peiqin Lin , Feiteng Mu

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enables large language models (LLMs) to access external knowledge sources, but the effectiveness of RAG relies on the coordination between the retriever and the generator. Since these components are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Junlin Wang , Zehao Wu , Shaowei Lu , Yanlan Li , Xinghao Huang

Empathetic response generation is increasingly significant in AI, necessitating nuanced emotional and cognitive understanding coupled with articulate response expression. Current large language models (LLMs) excel in response expression;…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhou Yang , Zhaochun Ren , Wang Yufeng , Shizhong Peng , Haizhou Sun , Xiaofei Zhu , Xiangwen Liao

Expressing empathy is important in everyday conversations, and exploring how empathy arises is crucial in automatic response generation. Most previous approaches consider only a single factor that affects empathy. However, in practice,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yangbin Chen , Chunfeng Liang

Empathetic response generation is designed to comprehend the emotions of others and select the most appropriate strategies to assist them in resolving emotional challenges. Empathy can be categorized into cognitive empathy and affective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Yuxuan Hu , Minghuan Tan , Chenwei Zhang , Zixuan Li , Xiaodan Liang , Min Yang , Chengming Li , Xiping Hu

Previous research on empathetic dialogue systems has mostly focused on generating responses given certain emotions. However, being empathetic not only requires the ability of generating emotional responses, but more importantly, requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Zhaojiang Lin , Andrea Madotto , Jamin Shin , Peng Xu , Pascale Fung

Social chatbots have gained immense popularity, and their appeal lies not just in their capacity to respond to the diverse requests from users, but also in the ability to develop an emotional connection with users. To further develop and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Avinash Madasu , Mauajama Firdaus , Asif Eqbal

A key trait of daily conversations between individuals is the ability to express empathy towards others, and exploring ways to implement empathy is a crucial step towards human-like dialogue systems. Previous approaches on this topic mainly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Sahand Sabour , Chujie Zheng , Minlie Huang

Real-world multimodal applications often require any-to-any capabilities, enabling both understanding and generation across modalities including text, image, audio, and video. However, integrating the strengths of autoregressive language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jiulin Li , Ping Huang , Yexin Li , Shuo Chen , Juewen Hu , Ye Tian

A good empathetic dialogue system should first track and understand a user's emotion and then reply with an appropriate emotion. However, current approaches to this task either focus on improving the understanding of users' emotion or on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yuhan Liu , Jun Gao , Jiachen Du , Lanjun Zhou , Ruifeng Xu

We introduce GenAgent, unifying visual understanding and generation through an agentic multimodal model. Unlike unified models that face expensive training costs and understanding-generation trade-offs, GenAgent decouples these capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Kaixun Jiang , Yuzheng Wang , Junjie Zhou , Pandeng Li , Zhihang Liu , Chen-Wei Xie , Zhaoyu Chen , Yun Zheng , Wenqiang Zhang

Artificial agents capable of understanding and aligning with others' intentions are essential for safe and socially robust artificial intelligence. We introduce a computational framework for empathy in active inference agents, grounded in…

Achieving empathy is a crucial step toward humanized dialogue systems. Current approaches for empathetic dialogue generation mainly perceive an emotional label to generate an empathetic response conditioned on it, which simply treat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Fengyi Fu , Lei Zhang , Quan Wang , Zhendong Mao

Empathetic dialog generation aims at generating coherent responses following previous dialog turns and, more importantly, showing a sense of caring and a desire to help. Existing models either rely on pre-defined emotion labels to guide the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yubo Xie , Pearl Pu
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