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20182025
most citedReflect, Not Reflex: Inference-Based Common Ground Improves Dialogue Response Quality

1 citations · 3 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2025

A Systematic Analysis of Base Model Choice for Reward Modeling

Kian Ahrabian, Pegah Jandaghi, Negar Mokhberian +2

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and, at its core, reward modeling have become a crucial part of training powerful large language models (LLMs). One commonly overl…

cs.CR2025

Trim My View: An LLM-Based Code Query System for Module Retrieval in Robotic Firmware

Sima Arasteh, Pegah Jandaghi, Nicolaas Weideman +4

The software compilation process has a tendency to obscure the original design of the system and makes it difficult both to identify individual components and discern their purpose…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Faithful Persona-based Conversational Dataset Generation with Large Language Models

Pegah Jandaghi, XiangHai Sheng, Xinyi Bai +2

High-quality conversational datasets are essential for developing AI models that can communicate with users. One way to foster deeper interactions between a chatbot and its user is…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Reflect, Not Reflex: Inference-Based Common Ground Improves Dialogue Response Quality

Pei Zhou, Hyundong Cho, Pegah Jandaghi +4

Human communication relies on common ground (CG), the mutual knowledge and beliefs shared by participants, to produce coherent and interesting conversations. In this paper, we demo…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Emotion Recognition in Conversation using Probabilistic Soft Logic

Eriq Augustine, Pegah Jandaghi, Alon Albalak +4

Creating agents that can both appropriately respond to conversations and understand complex human linguistic tendencies and social cues has been a long standing challenge in the NL…

cs.CL2022

FETA: A Benchmark for Few-Sample Task Transfer in Open-Domain Dialogue

Alon Albalak, Yi-Lin Tuan, Pegah Jandaghi +6

Task transfer, transferring knowledge contained in related tasks, holds the promise of reducing the quantity of labeled data required to fine-tune language models. Dialogue underst…

cs.CL2021

Probing Commonsense Explanation in Dialogue Response Generation

Pei Zhou, Pegah Jandaghi, Bill Yuchen Lin +3

Humans use commonsense reasoning (CSR) implicitly to produce natural and coherent responses in conversations. Aiming to close the gap between current response generation (RG) model…

cs.LG2020

Human-like Time Series Summaries via Trend Utility Estimation

Pegah Jandaghi, Jay Pujara

In many scenarios, humans prefer a text-based representation of quantitative data over numerical, tabular, or graphical representations. The attractiveness of textual summaries for…

cs.SI2018

QANet: Tensor Decomposition Approach for Query-based Anomaly Detection in Heterogeneous Information Networks

Vahid Ranjbar, Mostafa Salehi, Pegah Jandaghi +1

Complex networks have now become integral parts of modern information infrastructures. This paper proposes a user-centric method for detecting anomalies in heterogeneous informatio…