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Publications (9)

cs.CL2026

SAGE: A Top-Down Bottom-Up Knowledge-Grounded User Simulator for Multi-turn AGent Evaluation

Ryan Shea, Yunan Lu, Liang Qiu +1

Evaluating multi-turn interactive agents is challenging due to the need for human assessment. Evaluation with simulated users has been introduced as an alternative, however existin…

cs.CL2025

AutoSpec: An Agentic Framework for Automatically Drafting Patent Specification

Ryan Shea, Zhou Yu

Patents play a critical role in driving technological innovation by granting inventors exclusive rights to their inventions. However the process of drafting a patent application is…

cs.CL2023

User Adaptive Language Learning Chatbots with a Curriculum

Kun Qian, Ryan Shea, Yu Li +2

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…

cs.CL2023

Building Persona Consistent Dialogue Agents with Offline Reinforcement Learning

Ryan Shea, Zhou Yu

Maintaining a consistent persona is a key quality for any open domain dialogue system. Current state-of-the-art systems do this by training agents with supervised learning or onlin…

cs.CL2022

Just Fine-tune Twice: Selective Differential Privacy for Large Language Models

Weiyan Shi, Ryan Shea, Si Chen +3

Protecting large language models from privacy leakage is becoming increasingly crucial with their wide adoption in real-world products. Yet applying differential privacy (DP), a ca…

cs.CL2026

VISTA: A Versatile Interactive User Simulation Toolkit for Agent Evaluation

Yunan Lu, Ryan Shea, Yusen Zhang +1

Evaluation remains a critical bottleneck for interactive agent development. Existing evaluation methods often rely on static benchmarks, which fail to capture the dynamic, multi-st…

cs.AI2024

A Fairness-Driven Method for Learning Human-Compatible Negotiation Strategies

Ryan Shea, Zhou Yu

Despite recent advancements in AI and NLP, negotiation remains a difficult domain for AI agents. Traditional game theoretic approaches that have worked well for two-player zero-sum…

cs.CL2024

ACE: A LLM-based Negotiation Coaching System

Ryan Shea, Aymen Kallala, Xin Lucy Liu +2

The growing prominence of LLMs has led to an increase in the development of AI tutoring systems. These systems are crucial in providing underrepresented populations with improved a…

cs.RO2025

Generalizable Reinforcement Learning with Biologically Inspired Hyperdimensional Occupancy Grid Maps for Exploration and Goal-Directed Path Planning

Shay Snyder, Ryan Shea, Andrew Capodieci +2

Real-time autonomous systems utilize multi-layer computational frameworks to perform critical tasks such as perception, goal finding, and path planning. Traditional methods impleme…