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Proactive Dialogue Policy Optimization via Cognitive-State Transition
Minghui Ma, Mengqi Chen, Bin Guo +1
Proactive dialogue requires agents to continually adapt their policies to user feedback while progressing toward task objectives over multiple turns. To move beyond imitation learn…
Cognitive World Model for Progressive BDI/E Trajectory Evaluation of Conversational Agents
Minghui Ma, Bin Guo, Hao Wang +4
As LLM-based conversational agents advance toward increasingly open-ended and interaction-intensive scenarios, task completion alone provides an incomplete assessment of their effe…
Think Thrice Before You Speak: Dual knowledge-enhanced Theory-of-Mind Reasoning for Persuasive Agents
Minghui Ma, Bin Guo, Runze Yang +7
Persuasive dialogue requires reasoning about others' latent mental states, a capability known as Theory of Mind (ToM). However, due to reliance on simple prompting strategies and i…
Truth or Tribe: How In-group Favoritism Prioritize Facts in Persona Agents
Shijun Lei, Hongyu Wang, Yunji Liang +3
In-group favoritism refers to the phenomena of favoring members of one's in-group over out-group members and is widely observed in numerous social cooperative behaviors. Recently,…