Reasoning Consensus: Structural Ensembling of LLM Reasoning via Weighted DAG Aggregation

Amruta Parulekar, Jinu Lee, Dilek Hakkani-Tür +1

Can a Single Model Master Both Multi-turn Conversations and Tool Use? CoALM: A Unified Conversational Agentic Language Model

Emre Can Acikgoz, Jeremiah Greer, Akul Datta +6

CESAR: Automatic Induction of Compositional Instructions for Multi-turn Dialogs

Taha Aksu, Devamanyu Hazarika, Shikib Mehri +4

User Preference Modeling for Conversational LLM Agents: Weak Rewards from Retrieval-Augmented Interaction

Yuren Hao, Shuhaib Mehri, ChengXiang Zhai +1

DocCHA: Towards LLM-Augmented Interactive Online diagnosis System

Xinyi Liu, Dachun Sun, Yi R. Fung +2

MultiSessionCollab: Learning User Preferences with Memory to Improve Long-Term Collaboration

Shuhaib Mehri, Priyanka Kargupta, Tal August +1

MOCHA: Are Code Language Models Robust Against Multi-Turn Malicious Coding Prompts?

Muntasir Wahed, Xiaona Zhou, Kiet A. Nguyen +5

Language Specific Knowledge: Do Models Know Better in X than in English?

Ishika Agarwal, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Nisval Patel +1

Zero-Shot Controlled Generation with Encoder-Decoder Transformers

Devamanyu Hazarika, Mahdi Namazifar, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Tool-R0: Self-Evolving LLM Agents for Tool-Learning from Zero Data

Emre Can Acikgoz, Cheng Qian, Jonas Hübotter +3

From Documents to Segments: A Contextual Reformulation for Topic Assignment

Hoonsang Yoon, Takyoung Kim, Wonkee Lee +3

Measuring and Mitigating the Distributional Gap Between Real and Simulated User Behaviors

Shuhaib Mehri, Philippe Laban, Sumuk Shashidhar +4

Towards Universal Dialogue Act Tagging for Task-Oriented Dialogues

Shachi Paul, Rahul Goel, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: MTQE Rewards for Idioms Improve General Translation Quality

Ishika Agarwal, Zhenlin He, Dhruva Patil +1

Plan Verification for LLM-Based Embodied Task Completion Agents

Ananth Hariharan, Vardhan Dongre, Dilek Hakkani-Tür +1

Drift No More? Context Equilibria in Multi-Turn LLM Interactions

Vardhan Dongre, Ryan A. Rossi, Viet Dac Lai +3

Learning Question-Guided Video Representation for Multi-Turn Video Question Answering

Guan-Lin Chao, Abhinav Rastogi, Semih Yavuz +3

A Desideratum for Conversational Agents: Capabilities, Challenges, and Future Directions

Emre Can Acikgoz, Cheng Qian, Hongru Wang +5

The Alignment Veto: How Safety Training Suppresses Cultural Knowledge in LLMs

Pardis Sadat Zahraei, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür +1

Do We Need Adam? Surprisingly Strong and Sparse Reinforcement Learning with SGD in LLMs

Sagnik Mukherjee, Lifan Yuan, Pavan Jayasinha +2

Embodied Multi-Agent Coordination by Aligning World Models Through Dialogue

Vardhan Dongre, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

KILM: Knowledge Injection into Encoder-Decoder Language Models

Yan Xu, Mahdi Namazifar, Devamanyu Hazarika +3

Overview of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC9

Chulaka Gunasekara, Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro +36

ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs

Cheng Qian, Emre Can Acikgoz, Qi He +5

PlanBench-XL: Evaluating Long-Horizon Planning of LLM Tool-Use Agents in Large-Scale Tool Ecosystems

Jiayu Liu, Qihan Lin, Cheng Qian +8

Better Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems

Mert Ä°nan, Anthony Sicilia, Suvodip Dey +6

Premise-Augmented Reasoning Chains Improve Error Identification in Math reasoning with LLMs

Sagnik Mukherjee, Abhinav Chinta, Takyoung Kim +2

Neural Networks for Learnable and Scalable Influence Estimation of Instruction Fine-Tuning Data

Ishika Agarwal, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

DuplexGen: Adaptive Synthesis of Human-AI Turn-Taking Dialogues

Takyoung Kim, Kang-wook Kim, Sang Hoon Woo +3

The paper presents DuplexGen, a framework that uses a small set of human preference annotations to adaptively generate turn‑taking behaviors in AI‑human dialogues across different…

Trajectory-Level Redirection Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models

Gokul Puthumanaillam, Vardhan Dongre, Pranay Thangeda +3

Revisiting the Boundary between ASR and NLU in the Age of Conversational Dialog Systems

Manaal Faruqui, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Building a Conversational Agent Overnight with Dialogue Self-Play

Pararth Shah, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tür +4

LLMs are Vulnerable to Malicious Prompts Disguised as Scientific Language

Yubin Ge, Neeraja Kirtane, Hao Peng +1

Using In-Context Learning to Improve Dialogue Safety

Nicholas Meade, Spandana Gella, Devamanyu Hazarika +5

SpeakRL: Synergizing Reasoning, Speaking, and Acting in Language Models with Reinforcement Learning

Emre Can Acikgoz, Jinoh Oh, Jie Hao +7

Self-Improving LLM Agents at Test-Time

Emre Can Acikgoz, Cheng Qian, Heng Ji +2

PSI-Bench: Towards Clinically Grounded and Interpretable Evaluation of Depression Patient Simulators

Nguyen Khoi Hoang, Shuhaib Mehri, Tse-An Hsu +4

Persuade Me if You Can: A Framework for Evaluating Persuasion Effectiveness and Susceptibility Among Large Language Models

Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Shuhaib Mehri, Gokhan Tur +1

MAC: A Multi-Agent Framework for Interactive User Clarification in Multi-turn Conversations

Emre Can Acikgoz, Jinoh Oh, Joo Hyuk Jeon +7

From Context to Action: Analysis of the Impact of State Representation and Context on the Generalization of Multi-Turn Web Navigation Agents

Nalin Tiwary, Vardhan Dongre, Sanil Arun Chawla +2

When Attention Closes: How LLMs Lose the Thread in Multi-Turn Interaction

Vardhan Dongre, Joseph Hsieh, Viet Dac Lai +3

EiCAP: Beyond Fluency, Probing and Improving Emotional Intelligence in LLMs via Psychologically Grounded Multi-Turn Dialogue

Nizi Nazar, Pardis Sadat Zahraei, Dilek Hakkani-Tür +2

MIRAGE: A Benchmark for Multimodal Information-Seeking and Reasoning in Agricultural Expert-Guided Conversations

Vardhan Dongre, Chi Gui, Shubham Garg +4

Goal Alignment in LLM-Based User Simulators for Conversational AI

Shuhaib Mehri, Xiaocheng Yang, Takyoung Kim +3

PredAct-Bench: Benchmarking Tool-Augmented Dialogue under Controlled Tool Noise

Abdulrahman AlRabah, Xiaocheng Yang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür +1

Simulating User Agents for Embodied Conversational-AI

Daniel Philipov, Vardhan Dongre, Gokhan Tur +1

VISITRON: Visual Semantics-Aligned Interactively Trained Object-Navigator

Ayush Shrivastava, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Yang Liu +4

YourBench: Easy Custom Evaluation Sets for Everyone

Sumuk Shashidhar, Clémentine Fourrier, Alina Lozovskia +3

Few-Shot Synthetic Accented Speech for ASR Fine-Tuning: What Helps and When?

Yurii Halychanskyi, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson +2

HyST: A Hybrid Approach for Flexible and Accurate Dialogue State Tracking

Rahul Goel, Shachi Paul, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

ReIn: Conversational Error Recovery with Reasoning Inception

Takyoung Kim, Jinseok Nam, Chandrayee Basu +5

Beyond Sample-Level Feedback: Using Reference-Level Feedback to Guide Data Synthesis

Shuhaib Mehri, Xiusi Chen, Heng Ji +1

TD-EVAL: Revisiting Task-Oriented Dialogue Evaluation by Combining Turn-Level Precision with Dialogue-Level Comparisons

Emre Can Acikgoz, Carl Guo, Suvodip Dey +4

SMART: Self-Aware Agent for Tool Overuse Mitigation

Cheng Qian, Emre Can Acikgoz, Hongru Wang +5

From Fact to Judgment: Investigating the Impact of Task Framing on LLM Conviction in Dialogue Systems

Parisa Rabbani, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

ReSpAct: Harmonizing Reasoning, Speaking, and Acting Towards Building Large Language Model-Based Conversational AI Agents

Vardhan Dongre, Xiaocheng Yang, Emre Can Acikgoz +3

DialDefer: A Framework for Detecting and Mitigating LLM Dialogic Deference

Parisa Rabbani, Priyam Sahoo, Ruben Mathew +4

AcquisitionSynthesis: Targeted Data Generation using Acquisition Functions

Ishika Agarwal, Sofia Stoica, Emre Can Acikgoz +4

ATOD: An Evaluation Framework and Benchmark for Agentic Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Yifei Zhang, Hooshang Nayyeri, Rinat Khaziev +4

Must Read: A Comprehensive Survey of Computational Persuasion

Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Shuhaib Mehri, Xiaocheng Yang +7

Language Model is All You Need: Natural Language Understanding as Question Answering

Mahdi Namazifar, Alexandros Papangelis, Gokhan Tur +1

Measuring, Localizing, and Ablating Alignment Signatures in LLMs

Aniket Anand, Janvijay Singh, Zhewei Sun +2

Unsupervised Human Preference Learning

Sumuk Shashidhar, Abhinav Chinta, Vaibhav Sahai +1

Current Agents Fail to Leverage World Model as Tool for Foresight

Cheng Qian, Emre Can Acikgoz, Bingxuan Li +8

GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems

Xiaocheng Yang, Abdulrahman Alrabah, Dilek Hakkani-Tür +1

Do LLMs Encode Functional Importance of Reasoning Tokens?

Janvijay Singh, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

AURA: A Diagnostic Framework for Tracking User Satisfaction of Interactive Planning Agents

Takyoung Kim, Janvijay Singh, Shuhaib Mehri +6