2 papers
cs.AI2026
Why2Speak: Faithful Reasoning for Abstaining Action Policies
Shreya Mendi, Brinnae Bent
Many agentic systems must repeatedly choose between acting and abstaining, making faithful reasoning important for oversight: an explanation is useful only if it reflects the compu…
cs.CL2026
When2Speak: A Dataset for Temporal Participation and Turn-Taking in Multi-Party Conversations for Large Language Models
Vihaan Nama, Shreya Mendi, Zian Ye +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at generating contextually appropriate responses but remain poorly calibrated for multi-party conversations, where deciding when to speak is as c…