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9 papers

cs.CL2026

EmoFSM: A Finite State Machine for Emotional Support Conversation

Yue Zhao, Qingqing Gu, Xiaoyu Wang +5

Emotional support conversation (ESC) aims to alleviate people's emotional distress through effective conversations. Although large language models (LLMs) have made remarkable progr…

cs.HC2026

Self-EmoQ: Plutchik-Guided Value-based Planning to Drive Streaming Emotional TTS

Yue Zhao, Hongyan Li, Yong Chen +1

Emotional interaction is increasingly crucial for conversational AI, yet current systems lack a self-emotion determination mechanism to drive the streaming text-to-speech (TTS) syn…

cs.CL2025

Chain-of-Conceptual-Thought Elicits Daily Conversation in Large Language Models

Qingqing Gu, Dan Wang, Yue Zhao +5

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) is widely applied to enhance the LLM capability in math, coding and reasoning tasks. However, its performance is limited for open-domain tasks, when there ar…

cs.CL2025

Making Language Model a Hierarchical Classifier

Yihong Wang, Zhonglin Jiang, Ningyuan Xi +8

Decoder-only language models, such as GPT and LLaMA, generally decode on the last layer. Motivated by human's hierarchical thinking capability, we propose that a hierarchical decod…

cs.CL2025

Dream to Chat: Model-based Reinforcement Learning on Dialogues with User Belief Modeling

Yue Zhao, Xiaoyu Wang, Dan Wang +7

World models have been widely utilized in robotics, gaming, and auto-driving. However, their applications on natural language tasks are relatively limited. In this paper, we constr…

cs.CL2025

Convert Language Model into a Value-based Strategic Planner

Xiaoyu Wang, Yue Zhao, Qingqing Gu +4

Emotional support conversation (ESC) aims to alleviate the emotional distress of individuals through effective conversations. Although large language models (LLMs) have obtained re…