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Optimization is as much about modeling the right problem as solving it. Identifying the right objectives, constraints, and trade-offs demands extensive interaction between researchers and stakeholders. Large language models can empower…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Joshua Drossman , Alexandre Jacquillat , Sébastien Martin

In this work, we address challenging multi-agent cooperation problems with decentralized control, raw sensory observations, costly communication, and multi-objective tasks instantiated in various embodied environments. While previous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Hongxin Zhang , Weihua Du , Jiaming Shan , Qinhong Zhou , Yilun Du , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Tianmin Shu , Chuang Gan

Intelligent dialogue systems are increasingly used in modern education and psychological counseling fields, but most existing systems are limited to a single domain, cannot deal with both educational and psychological issues, and often lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Shiwen Ni , Min Yang

Semantic communication serves as a novel paradigm and attracts the broad interest of researchers. One critical aspect of it is the multi-user semantic communication theory, which can further promote its application to the practical network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Weizhi Li , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang , Kaijun Liu

The design of complex engineering systems is an often long and articulated process that highly relies on engineers' expertise and professional judgment. As such, the typical pitfalls of activities involving the human factor often manifest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Shaohong Zhong , Andrea Scarinci , Alice Cicirello

As more users across the world are interacting with dialog agents in their daily life, there is a need for better speech understanding that calls for renewed attention to the dynamics between research in automatic speech recognition (ASR)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Manaal Faruqui , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Spoken conversational agents are converging toward voice-native LLMs. This tutorial distills the path from cascaded ASR/NLU to end-to-end, retrieval-and vision-grounded systems. We frame adaptation of text LLMs to audio, cross-modal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chao-Han Huck Yang , Andreas Stolcke , Larry Heck

Emergent communication in artificial agents has been studied to understand language evolution, as well as to develop artificial systems that learn to communicate with humans. We show that agents performing a cooperative navigation task in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Ivana Kajić , Eser Aygün , Doina Precup

There are numerous frameworks capable of creating and orchestrating agents to address complex tasks. However, most of them highly coupled Python programming with agent declaration, making it hard for maintenance and runtime optimization. In…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Sirui Zeng , Xifeng Yan

Multi-agent systems outperform single agent in complex collaborative tasks. However, in large-scale scenarios, ensuring timely information exchange during decentralized task execution remains a challenge. This work presents an online…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Junjie Wang , Meng Guo , Zhongkui Li

As the first robotic platforms slowly approach our everyday life, we can imagine a near future where service robots will be easily accessible by non-expert users through vocal interfaces. The capability of managing natural language would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Martino Mensio , Emanuele Bastianelli , Ilaria Tiddi , Giuseppe Rizzo

Along with the development of systems for natural language understanding and generation, dialog systems have been widely adopted for language learning and practicing. Many current educational dialog systems perform chitchat, where the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Kun Qian , Ryan Shea , Yu Li , Luke Kutszik Fryer , Zhou Yu

Data scarcity is one of the main problems when it comes to real-world applications of transformer-based models. This is especially evident for task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, which require specialized datasets, that are usually not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sebastian Steindl , Ulrich Schäfer , Bernd Ludwig

Linear programming (LP) problems are pervasive in real-life applications. However, despite their apparent simplicity, an untrained user may find it difficult to determine the linear model of their specific problem. We envisage the creation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Yelaman Abdullin , Diego Molla-Aliod , Bahadorreza Ofoghi , John Yearwood , Qingyang Li

Large language model (LLM) agents integrate pre-trained LLMs with modular algorithmic components and have shown remarkable reasoning and decision-making abilities. In this work, we investigate their use for two tightly intertwined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Alessio Maritan

As multiple robots are expected to coexist in future households, natural language is increasingly envisioned as a primary medium for human-robot and robot-robot communication. This paper introduces the concept of a Natural Language…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Ziyi Liu , Xinyi Wang , Shao-Kang Hsia , Chenfei Zhu , Zhengzhe Zhu , Xiyun Hu , Anastasia Kouvaras Ostrowski , Karthik Ramani

Empowering large language models with long-term memory is crucial for building agents that adapt to users' evolving needs. Existing evaluations of this capability typically interleave preference-related dialogues with irrelevant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shuochen Liu , Junyi Zhu , Long Shu , Junda Lin , Yuhao Chen , Haotian Zhang , Chao Zhang , Derong Xu , Jia Li , Bo Tang , Zhiyu Li , Feiyu Xiong , Enhong Chen , Tong Xu

Recent research in dialogue systems and corpora has focused on two main categories: task-oriented (TOD) and open-domain (chit-chat) dialogues. TOD systems help users accomplish specific tasks, while open-domain systems aim to create…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Wen-Yu Chang , Yun-Nung Chen

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

In healthcare, the ability to care for oneself is reflected in the "Activities of Daily Living (ADL)," which serve as a measure of functional ability (functioning). A lack of functioning may lead to poor living conditions requiring personal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zhecheng Sheng , Raymond Finzel , Michael Lucke , Sheena Dufresne , Maria Gini , Serguei Pakhomov