4 papers
Modeling Multiple Support Strategies within a Single Turn for Emotional Support Conversations
Jie Zhu, Huaixia Dou, Junhui Li +5
Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) aims to assist individuals experiencing distress by generating empathetic and supportive dialogue. While prior work typically assumes that each…
Transparent and Controllable Recommendation Filtering via Multimodal Multi-Agent Collaboration
Chi Zhang, Zhipeng Xu, Jiahao Liu +5
While personalized recommender systems excel at content discovery, they frequently expose users to undesirable or discomforting information, highlighting the critical need for user…
Do Images Speak Louder than Words? Investigating the Effect of Textual Misinformation in VLMs
Chi Zhang, Wenxuan Ding, Jiale Liu +3
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown strong multimodal reasoning capabilities on Visual-Question-Answering (VQA) benchmarks. However, their robustness against textual misinform…
Divide, Optimize, Merge: Fine-Grained LLM Agent Optimization at Scale
Jiale Liu, Yifan Zeng, Shaokun Zhang +5
LLM-based optimization has shown remarkable potential in enhancing agentic systems. However, the conventional approach of prompting LLM optimizer with the whole training trajectori…