5 papers
Representation as a Bottleneck for Mechanistic Interpretability: The Manifestation Unit Protocol
Hussein Chouman, Wataru Sasaki, Tomokazu Matsui +2
Mechanistic interpretability has produced a rich inventory of component-level analyses that characterise what neural-network components encode and how they interact. Their outputs,…
Towards an End-To-End System for Real-Time Gesture Recognition from Surface Vibrations
Florian Hettstedt, Cedric Giese, Tianheng Ling +3
Sensing surface vibrations promise unobtrusive interaction for smart home systems by enabling gesture recognition on existing everyday surfaces without disturbing living-space desi…
Merging Continual Pretraining Models for Domain-Specialized LLMs: A Case Study in Finance
Kentaro Ueda, François Portet, Hirohiko Suwa +1
While LLMs excel at general tasks, they struggle in specialized domains like finance, requiring diverse skills in domain knowledge, mathematical reasoning, and multilingual process…
Exploring the Impact of Non-Verbal Virtual Agent Behavior on User Engagement in Argumentative Dialogues
Annalena Bea Aicher, Yuki Matsuda, Keichii Yasumoto +3
Engaging in discussions that involve diverse perspectives and exchanging arguments on a controversial issue is a natural way for humans to form opinions. In this process, the way a…
ARCADE: An Augmented Reality Display Environment for Multimodal Interaction with Conversational Agents
Carolin Schindler, Daiki Mayumi, Yuki Matsuda +3
Making the interaction with embodied conversational agents accessible in a ubiquitous and natural manner is not only a question of the underlying software but also brings challenge…