collaborators

6 papers

cs.MA2026

GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems

Xiaocheng Yang, Abdulrahman Alrabah, Dilek Hakkani-Tür +1

Multi-agent systems (MAS) built on large language models (LLMs) provide a promising framework for solving complex tasks through role specialization and structured interaction. Howe…

cs.CV2026

Probing CLIP's Comprehension of 360-Degree Textual and Visual Semantics

Hai Wang, Xiaochen Yang, Mingzhi Dong +1

The dream of instantly creating rich 360-degree panoramic worlds from text is rapidly becoming a reality, yet a crucial gap exists in our ability to reliably evaluate their semanti…

cs.CL2026

Must Read: A Comprehensive Survey of Computational Persuasion

Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Shuhaib Mehri, Xiaocheng Yang +7

Persuasion is a fundamental aspect of communication, influencing decision-making across diverse contexts, from everyday conversations to high-stakes scenarios such as politics, mar…

cs.CL2026

Goal Alignment in LLM-Based User Simulators for Conversational AI

Shuhaib Mehri, Xiaocheng Yang, Takyoung Kim +3

User simulators are essential to conversational AI, enabling scalable agent development and evaluation through simulated interactions. While current Large Language Models (LLMs) ha…

cs.CL2025

Question Generation for Assessing Early Literacy Reading Comprehension

Xiaocheng Yang, Sumuk Shashidhar, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Assessment of reading comprehension through content-based interactions plays an important role in the reading acquisition process. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for ge…

cs.CL2025

ReSpAct: Harmonizing Reasoning, Speaking, and Acting Towards Building Large Language Model-Based Conversational AI Agents

Vardhan Dongre, Xiaocheng Yang, Emre Can Acikgoz +3

Large language model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly employed to interact with external environments (e.g., games, APIs, world models) to solve user-provided tasks. However, cu…