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Self-Authored Verification Is Unreliable in Heuristic Self-Improving Agents
Diandian Guo, Cong Cao, Fangfang Yuan +3
Self-improving agents accumulate capability by repeatedly rewriting procedural policies, controllers, or heuristic rules. They typically rely on self-authored tests or metrics to d…
MuVaC: A Variational Causal Framework for Multimodal Sarcasm Understanding in Dialogues
Diandian Guo, Fangfang Yuan, Cong Cao +5
The prevalence of sarcasm in multimodal dialogues on the social platforms presents a crucial yet challenging task for understanding the true intent behind online content. Comprehen…
Does Faithfulness-Guided Alignment Hurt Accuracy? Unlocking Accurate and Faithful Post-Retrieval Reasoning
Yu Liu, Wenxiao Zhang, Diandian Guo +6
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) can achieve strong answer accuracy on multi-hop questions, but outcome-level rewards often leave reasoning traces weakly grounded and difficult…
Emotion Transfer with Enhanced Prototype for Unseen Emotion Recognition in Conversation
Kun Peng, Cong Cao, Hao Peng +5
Current Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) research follows a closed-domain assumption. However, there is no clear consensus on emotion classification in psychology, which p…
Dialogues Aspect-based Sentiment Quadruple Extraction via Structural Entropy Minimization Partitioning
Kun Peng, Cong Cao, Hao Peng +5
Dialogues Aspect-based Sentiment Quadruple Extraction (DiaASQ) aims to extract all target-aspect-opinion-sentiment quadruples from a given multi-round, multi-participant dialogue.…
T-T: Table Transformer for Tagging-based Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction
Kun Peng, Chaodong Tong, Cong Cao +6
Aspect sentiment triplet extraction (ASTE) aims to extract triplets composed of aspect terms, opinion terms, and sentiment polarities from given sentences. The table tagging method…