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5 papers

cs.CL2026

Hear2Act: Benchmarking When Prosody Should Change What an Assistant Does

Xinyi Liu, Hooshang Nayyeri, Dilek Hakkani-Tur +6

Prosodic cues can convey task-relevant information that alters the trajectory and outcome of a task-oriented dialogue, even when the words themselves remain unchanged. Yet existing…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Individual Personas: Aligning Synthetic Dialogue to Population-Level Behavior Distributions

Xinyi Liu, Rinat Khaziev, Hooshang Nayyeri +3

Synthetic dialogue corpora are increasingly used as proxies for target dialogue data, yet persona-grounded generators optimize individual conversations rather than corpus compositi…

cs.MA2026

Towards Self-Improving Error Diagnosis in Multi-Agent Systems

Jiazheng Li, Emine Yilmaz, Bei Chen +1

Large Language Model (LLM)-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) enable complex problem-solving but introduce significant debugging challenges, characterized by long interaction traces,…

cs.CL2026

ATOD: An Evaluation Framework and Benchmark for Agentic Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Yifei Zhang, Hooshang Nayyeri, Rinat Khaziev +4

Recent advances in task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, driven by large language models (LLMs) with extensive API and tool integration, have enabled conversational agents to coord…

cs.CL2025

Adaptive Multi-Agent Response Refinement in Conversational Systems

Soyeong Jeong, Aparna Elangovan, Emine Yilmaz +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in conversational systems by generating human-like responses. However, they can fall short, especially when requir…