4 papers
Thinking While Speaking: Inference-Time Knowledge Transfer for Responsive and Intelligent Conversational Voice Agents
Vidya Srinivas, Zachary Englhardt, Vikram Iyer +1
Voice agents face a fundamental tension: the reasoning, retrieval, and tool use that make foundation models capable are iterative and slow, while conversational interaction demands…
SnappyMeal: Design and Longitudinal Evaluation of a Multimodal AI Food Logging Application
Liam Bakar, Zachary Englhardt, Vidya Srinivas +4
Food logging, both self-directed and prescribed, plays a critical role in uncovering correlations between diet, medical, fitness, and health outcomes. Through conversations with nu…
The Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent
A. Ali Heydari, Ken Gu, Vidya Srinivas +35
Health is a fundamental pillar of human wellness, and the rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) have driven the development of a new generation of health agents. Howev…
Substance over Style: Evaluating Proactive Conversational Coaching Agents
Vidya Srinivas, Xuhai Xu, Xin Liu +5
While NLP research has made strides in conversational tasks, many approaches focus on single-turn responses with well-defined objectives or evaluation criteria. In contrast, coachi…