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From Propositional to Perceptual Asymmetry: Extending Frictive Policy Optimization to Asymmetric Partial Information Dialogue
Yifan Zhu, Kyeongmin Rim, James Pustejovsky
Frictive Policy Optimization (FPO; Pustejovsky et al., 2025) treats friction in collaborative dialogue -- misalignment, misunderstanding, repair -- as an epistemic signal essential…
HiFlow: Hierarchical Feedback-Driven Optimization for Constrained Long-Form Text Generation
Yifan Zhu, Guanting Chen, Bing Wei +1
Large Language Models face a multi-objective optimization problem in constrained long-text generation, balancing global structure, local coherence, and constraint satisfaction. We…
TRACE: Real-Time Multimodal Common Ground Tracking in Situated Collaborative Dialogues
Hannah VanderHoeven, Brady Bhalla, Ibrahim Khebour +11
We present TRACE, a novel system for live *common ground* tracking in situated collaborative tasks. With a focus on fast, real-time performance, TRACE tracks the speech, actions, g…
Speech Is Not Enough: Interpreting Nonverbal Indicators of Common Knowledge and Engagement
Derek Palmer, Yifan Zhu, Kenneth Lai +8
Our goal is to develop an AI Partner that can provide support for group problem solving and social dynamics. In multi-party working group environments, multimodal analytics is cruc…
Common Ground Tracking in Multimodal Dialogue
Ibrahim Khebour, Kenneth Lai, Mariah Bradford +8
Within Dialogue Modeling research in AI and NLP, considerable attention has been spent on ``dialogue state tracking'' (DST), which is the ability to update the representations of t…