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most citedDuplex Conversation: Towards Human-like Interaction in Spoken Dialogue Systems

16 citations · 69 across the 39 of their papers we have counts for

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42 papers

cs.CL2026

What Makes a Social Agent's Interactions Effective? Learning from Verifiable Outcomes in Paired Worlds

Caixin Kang, Ke Wang, Yuchuan Wu +5

Effective social interaction requires more than fluent responses: agents must reach plans that fit the participants' needs and circumstances. Existing evaluations of social agents…

cs.LG2026

Entropy Pacing Policy Optimization for Multi-Task Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Zetian Hu, Shunyu Liu, Junjie Zhang +4

Recent breakthroughs of Reinforcement Learning (RL) have highlighted its potential for complex agentic Large Language Model (LLM) tasks. However, existing efforts largely focus on…

cs.CL2026

EIBench: A Simulator-Based Benchmark and Turn-Credit RL for Emotion Management

Rongzhi Zhu, Xiang Huang, Yuchuan Wu +8

Emotional intelligence (EI) in Large Language Models (LLMs) is often evaluated through static understanding tasks or single-response dialogue generation. However, emotion managemen…

cs.AI2026

Scaling Self-Evolving Agents via Parametric Memory

Tao Ren, Weiyao Luo, Hui Yang +8

Existing memory-augmented LLM agents store past experience exclusively in prompt space, as textual summaries or retrieved passages, while keeping model parameters frozen throughout…

cs.LG2026

STRIDE: Learnable Stepwise Language Feedback for LLM Reasoning

Junjie Zhang, Guozheng Ma, Shunyu Liu +5

Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning (RL) have underscored its potential for incentivizing reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing step-level…

cs.CL2026

P-GenRM: Personalized Generative Reward Model with Test-time User-based Scaling

Pinyi Zhang, Ting-En Lin, Yuchuan Wu +7

Personalized alignment of large language models seeks to adapt responses to individual user preferences, typically via reinforcement learning. A key challenge is obtaining accurate…

cs.CL2026★ 1 cited

Controlling Multimodal Conversational Agents with Coverage-Enhanced Latent Actions

Yongqi Li, Hao Lang, Tieyun Qian +1

Vision-language models are increasingly employed as multimodal conversational agents (MCAs) for diverse conversational tasks. Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) has been widely…

cs.CL2026

Reward Modeling from Natural Language Human Feedback

Zongqi Wang, Rui Wang, Yuchuan Wu +5

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable reward (RLVR) on preference data has become the mainstream approach for training Generative Reward Models (GRMs). Typically in pairwise rewar…

cs.DC2025

RollArt: Disaggregated Multi-Task Agentic RL Training at Scale

Wei Gao, Yuheng Zhao, Tianyuan Wu +15

Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) trains LLMs through multi-turn interactions with environments, producing workloads that mix compute-bound prefill, bandwidth-bound decoding, CPU…

cs.CL2025

MOA: Multi-Objective Alignment for Role-Playing Agents

Chonghua Liao, Ke Wang, Yuchuan Wu +3

Role-playing agents (RPAs) require balancing multiple objectives, such as instruction following, persona consistency, and stylistic fidelity, which are not always perfectly aligned…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Implicit Step Rewards

Xiaoqian Liu, Ke Wang, Yuchuan Wu +4

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly developed as autonomous agents using reinforcement learning (agentic RL) that reason and act in interactive environments. However, spa…

cs.CL2025

CPO: Addressing Reward Ambiguity in Role-playing Dialogue via Comparative Policy Optimization

Xinge Ye, Rui Wang, Yuchuan Wu +4

Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning (RLFT) has achieved notable success in tasks with objectively verifiable answers (e.g., code generation, mathematical reasoning), yet struggles w…

cs.CL2025

OmniCharacter: Towards Immersive Role-Playing Agents with Seamless Speech-Language Personality Interaction

Haonan Zhang, Run Luo, Xiong Liu +10

Role-Playing Agents (RPAs), benefiting from large language models, is an emerging interactive AI system that simulates roles or characters with diverse personalities. However, exis…

cs.CL2025

A Simple "Motivation" Can Enhance Reinforcement Finetuning of Large Reasoning Models

Junjie Zhang, Guozheng Ma, Shunyu Liu +6

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards~(RLVR) has emerged as a powerful learn-to-reason paradigm for large reasoning models to tackle complex tasks. However, the current RL…

cs.CL2025

TimeHC-RL: Temporal-aware Hierarchical Cognitive Reinforcement Learning for Enhancing LLMs' Social Intelligence

Guiyang Hou, Xing Gao, Yuchuan Wu +8

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in IQ-related domains that require careful thinking, such as mathematics and coding. However, enhancing LLMs'…

cs.CL2025

Supervised Optimism Correction: Be Confident When LLMs Are Sure

Junjie Zhang, Rushuai Yang, Shunyu Liu +5

In this work, we establish a novel theoretical connection between supervised fine-tuning and offline reinforcement learning under the token-level Markov decision process, revealing…

cs.CL2025

Act-Adaptive Margin: Dynamically Calibrating Reward Models for Subjective Ambiguity

Feiteng Fang, Dingwei Chen, Xiang Huang +10

Currently, most reinforcement learning tasks focus on domains like mathematics and programming, where verification is relatively straightforward. However, in subjective tasks such…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

A Survey of Direct Preference Optimization

Shunyu Liu, Wenkai Fang, Zetian Hu +9

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated unprecedented generative capabilities, yet their alignment with human values remains critical for ensuring helpful and harmless deplo…

cs.AI2025

SDPO: Segment-Level Direct Preference Optimization for Social Agents

Aobo Kong, Wentao Ma, Shiwan Zhao +7

Social agents powered by large language models (LLMs) can simulate human social behaviors but fall short in handling complex social dialogues. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)…

cs.CL2025

EPO: Explicit Policy Optimization for Strategic Reasoning in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Xiaoqian Liu, Ke Wang, Yongbin Li +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive reasoning capabilities in well-defined problems with clear solutions, such as mathematics and coding. However, they still struggl…

cs.CL2025

OpenOmni: Advancing Open-Source Omnimodal Large Language Models with Progressive Multimodal Alignment and Real-Time Self-Aware Emotional Speech Synthesis

Run Luo, Ting-En Lin, Haonan Zhang +10

Recent advancements in omnimodal learning have significantly improved understanding and generation across images, text, and speech, yet these developments remain predominantly conf…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

MMEvol: Empowering Multimodal Large Language Models with Evol-Instruct

Run Luo, Haonan Zhang, Longze Chen +13

The development of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has seen significant advancements with increasing demands in various fields (e.g., multimodal agents, embodied intellige…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

FlowBench: Revisiting and Benchmarking Workflow-Guided Planning for LLM-based Agents

Ruixuan Xiao, Wentao Ma, Ke Wang +5

LLM-based agents have emerged as promising tools, which are crafted to fulfill complex tasks by iterative planning and action. However, these agents are susceptible to undesired pl…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Leave No Document Behind: Benchmarking Long-Context LLMs with Extended Multi-Doc QA

Minzheng Wang, Longze Chen, Cheng Fu +11

Long-context modeling capabilities have garnered widespread attention, leading to the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) with ultra-context windows. Meanwhile, benchmarks fo…