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cs.CL2026

Learning to Route Languages for Multilingual Policy Optimization

Geyang Guo, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji +2

Large language models~(LLMs) are trained on heterogeneous multilingual corpora, yet existing policy optimization methods often implicitly restrict each training question to a singl…

cs.CL2026

MusTBench: Benchmarking and Advancing Temporal Grounding in Music LLMs

Daeyong Kwon, Qiyu Wu, Shinobu Kuriya +6

Recent Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have demonstrated promising abilities in understanding musical content. However, whether their responses are grounded in the correct temp…

cs.CL2025

MCA: Modality Composition Awareness for Robust Composed Multimodal Retrieval

Qiyu Wu, Shuyang Cui, Satoshi Hayakawa +3

Multimodal retrieval, which seeks to retrieve relevant content across modalities such as text or image, supports applications from AI search to contents production. Despite the suc…

cs.CL2025

CARE: Multilingual Human Preference Learning for Cultural Awareness

Geyang Guo, Tarek Naous, Hiromi Wakaki +4

Language Models (LMs) are typically tuned with human preferences to produce helpful responses, but the impact of preference tuning on the ability to handle culturally diverse queri…

cs.CL2025

TED: Turn Emphasis with Dialogue Feature Attention for Emotion Recognition in Conversation

Junya Ono, Hiromi Wakaki

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) has been attracting attention by methods for modeling multi-turn contexts. The multi-turn input to a pretraining model implicitly assumes…

cs.CL2024

ComperDial: Commonsense Persona-grounded Dialogue Dataset and Benchmark

Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji, Yoshinori Maeda +5

We propose a new benchmark, ComperDial, which facilitates the training and evaluation of evaluation metrics for open-domain dialogue systems. ComperDial consists of human-scored re…

cs.CL2024

Few-shot Dialogue Strategy Learning for Motivational Interviewing via Inductive Reasoning

Zhouhang Xie, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Mengjie Zhao +4

We consider the task of building a dialogue system that can motivate users to adopt positive lifestyle changes: Motivational Interviewing. Addressing such a task requires a system…

cs.CL2024

DiffuCOMET: Contextual Commonsense Knowledge Diffusion

Silin Gao, Mete Ismayilzada, Mengjie Zhao +3

Inferring contextually-relevant and diverse commonsense to understand narratives remains challenging for knowledge models. In this work, we develop a series of knowledge models, Di…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Using Natural Language Inference to Improve Persona Extraction from Dialogue in a New Domain

Alexandra DeLucia, Mengjie Zhao, Yoshinori Maeda +3

While valuable datasets such as PersonaChat provide a foundation for training persona-grounded dialogue agents, they lack diversity in conversational and narrative settings, primar…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

On the Language Encoder of Contrastive Cross-modal Models

Mengjie Zhao, Junya Ono, Zhi Zhong +7

Contrastive cross-modal models such as CLIP and CLAP aid various vision-language (VL) and audio-language (AL) tasks. However, there has been limited investigation of and improvemen…