9 papers
ConvApparel: A Benchmark Dataset and Validation Framework for User Simulators in Conversational Recommenders
Ofer Meshi, Krisztian Balog, Sally Goldman +5
The promise of LLM-based user simulators to improve conversational AI is hindered by a critical "realism gap," leading to systems that are optimized for simulated interactions, but…
Towards Artwork Explanation in Large-scale Vision Language Models
Kazuki Hayashi, Yusuke Sakai, Hidetaka Kamigaito +2
Large-scale Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) output text from images and instructions, demonstrating capabilities in text generation and comprehension. However, it has not been clari…
DRISHTIKON: A Multimodal Multilingual Benchmark for Testing Language Models' Understanding on Indian Culture
Arijit Maji, Raghvendra Kumar, Akash Ghosh +6
We introduce DRISHTIKON, a first-of-its-kind multimodal and multilingual benchmark centered exclusively on Indian culture, designed to evaluate the cultural understanding of genera…
Balancing Knowledge Delivery and Emotional Comfort in Healthcare Conversational Systems
Shang-Chi Tsai, Yun-Nung Chen
With the advancement of large language models, many dialogue systems are now capable of providing reasonable and informative responses to patients' medical conditions. However, whe…
When Every Token Counts: Optimal Segmentation for Low-Resource Language Models
Bharath Raj, Garvit Suri, Vikrant Dewangan +1
Traditional greedy tokenization methods have been a critical step in Natural Language Processing (NLP), influencing how text is converted into tokens and directly impacting model p…
Considering Length Diversity in Retrieval-Augmented Summarization
Juseon-Do, Jaesung Hwang, Jingun Kwon +2
This study investigates retrieval-augmented summarization by specifically examining the impact of exemplar summary lengths under length constraints, not covered by previous work. W…