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Large language model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly used to perform complex, multi-step workflows in regulated settings such as compliance and due diligence. However, many agentic architectures rely primarily on prompt engineering of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ananya Joshi , Michael Rudow

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) have achieved remarkable progress yet remain constrained by a single-turn interaction paradigm, effectively functioning as solvers for independent requests rather than assistants in continuous dialogue. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Wenxun Dai , Zhiyuan Zhao , Yule Zhong , Yiji Cheng , Jianwei Zhang , Linqing Wang , Shiyi Zhang , Yunlong Lin , Runze He , Fellix Song , Wayne Zhuang , Yong Liu , Haoji Zhang , Yansong Tang , Qinglin Lu , Chunyu Wang

To address the gaps between the static pre-set "thinking-planning-action" of humanoid robots in unfamiliar scenarios and the highly programmed "call tool-return result" due to the lack of autonomous coding capabilities, this work designs a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Libo Wang

A longstanding goal in character animation is to combine data-driven specification of behavior with a system that can execute a similar behavior in a physical simulation, thus enabling realistic responses to perturbations and environmental…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Xue Bin Peng , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine , Michiel van de Panne

An effective approach to automated movie content analysis involves building a network (graph) of its characters. Existing work usually builds a static character graph to summarize the content using metadata, scripts or manual annotations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Prakhar Kulshreshtha , Tanaya Guha

The integration of conversational agents into our daily lives has become increasingly common, yet many of these agents cannot engage in deep interactions with humans. Despite this, there is a noticeable shortage of datasets that capture…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Mohammed Althubyani , Zhijin Meng , Shengyuan Xie , Cha Seung , Imran Razzak , Eduardo B. Sandoval , Baki Kocaballi , Francisco Cruz

Multi-robot systems hold significant promise for social environments such as homes and hospitals, yet existing multi-robot works treat robots as functionally identical, overlooking how robots individual identity shape user perception and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Shaid Hasan , Breenice Lee , Sujan Sarker , Tariq Iqbal

We introduce CharacterGAN, a generative model that can be trained on only a few samples (8 - 15) of a given character. Our model generates novel poses based on keypoint locations, which can be modified in real time while providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Tobias Hinz , Matthew Fisher , Oliver Wang , Eli Shechtman , Stefan Wermter

Modeling latent character states is crucial for consistent and engaging role-playing (RP) with large language models (LLMs). Yet, existing prompting-based approaches mainly capture surface actions, often failing to track the latent states…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Letian Peng , Yupeng Hou , Kun Zhou , Jingbo Shang

This paper introduces Gamified Adversarial Prompting (GAP), a framework that crowd-sources high-quality data for visual instruction tuning of large multimodal models. GAP transforms the data collection process into an engaging game,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Shashank Yadav , Rohan Tomar , Garvit Jain , Chirag Ahooja , Shubham Chaudhary , Charles Elkan

Human computer interaction is shifting from screen-based systems to multimodal interfaces where artificial intelligence powered systems increasingly interpret user intent through speech, gesture, and gaze. Yet users rarely understand how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ankur Bhatt , Sven Mayer

We present UniModel, a unified generative model that jointly supports visual understanding and visual generation within a single pixel-to-pixel diffusion framework. Our goal is to achieve unification along three axes: the model, the tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Chi Zhang , Jiepeng Wang , Youming Wang , Yuanzhi Liang , Xiaoyan Yang , Zuoxin Li , Haibin Huang , Xuelong Li

Behaviors of the synthetic characters in current military simulations are limited since they are generally generated by rule-based and reactive computational models with minimal intelligence. Such computational models cannot adapt to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Volkan Ustun , Rajay Kumar , Adam Reilly , Seyed Sajjadi , Andrew Miller

Current work on image-based story generation suffers from the fact that the existing image sequence collections do not have coherent plots behind them. We improve visual story generation by producing a new image-grounded dataset, Visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Xudong Hong , Asad Sayeed , Khushboo Mehra , Vera Demberg , Bernt Schiele

The emergence of generative models enables the creation of texts and images tailored to users' preferences. Existing personalized generative models have two critical limitations: lacking a dedicated paradigm for accurate preference…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yuting Zhang , Ying Sun , Dazhong Shen , Ziwei Xie , Feng Liu , Changwang Zhang , Xiang Liu , Jun Wang , Hui Xiong

Digital humans are fundamental to immersive interaction, yet creating a unified model for holistic modalities, including text, audio, motion, and visual content, remains an open challenge. In this paper, we present Archon, a fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Chong Bao , Shichen Liu , Lijun Yu , David Futschik , Stylianos Moschoglou , Shefali Srivastava , Ziqian Bai , Feitong Tan , Guofeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui , Sean Fanello , Yinda Zhang

Achieving human-AI alignment in complex multi-agent games is crucial for creating trustworthy AI agents that enhance gameplay. We propose a method to evaluate this alignment using an interpretable task-sets framework, focusing on high-level…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Sugandha Sharma , Guy Davidson , Khimya Khetarpal , Anssi Kanervisto , Udit Arora , Katja Hofmann , Ida Momennejad

Recent popular Role-Playing Games (RPGs) saw the great success of character auto-creation systems. The bone-driven face model controlled by continuous parameters (like the position of bones) and discrete parameters (like the hairstyles)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Rui Zhao , Wei Li , Zhipeng Hu , Lincheng Li , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi , Changjie Fan

Digital characters are central to modern media, yet generating character videos with long-duration, consistent multi-view appearance and expressive identity remains challenging. Existing approaches either provide insufficient context to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yuhang Yang , Fan Zhang , Huaijin Pi , Shuai Guo , Guowei Xu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Multimodal AI models have achieved impressive performance in tasks that require integrating information from multiple modalities, such as vision and language. However, their "black-box" nature poses a major barrier to deployment in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Zhanliang Wang , Kai Wang