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  1. Can AI Help You Get Over Your Breakup? One Session with a Belief-Reframing Chatbot Shows Sustained Distress Reduction

    May 5, 2026Thomas Menzel, Michel Schimpf, Thomas BohnéEmotional Support ConversationMental Health

    Technical University of Munich, Germany · University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

  2. Synthetic Users, Real Differences: an Evaluation Framework for User Simulation in Multi-Turn Conversations

    May 4, 2026Yu Lu Liu, Hyokun Yun, Tanya Roosta +1Conversational AgentsUser Simulation

    Johns Hopkins University · UC Berkeley

  3. A Compound AI Agent for Conversational Grant Discovery

    May 4, 2026Zhisheng Tang, Mayank KejriwalAgentic SearchWeb Search Agents

    University of Southern California & GRAIL

  4. Reducing Conversational Escalation in Large Language Model Dialogue with Nonviolent Communication Constraints

    May 1, 2026Zhixing Sun, Shenghe Xu, Tao LiLLM PromptingLLM Safety

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, China · City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR, China

  5. In-Context Prompting Obsoletes Agent Orchestration for Procedural Tasks

    Apr 30, 2026Simon Dennis, Michael Diamond, Rivaan Patil +2LLM PromptingLLM Agent Orchestration

    i14, University of Melbourne · i14

  6. Reasoning over Object Descriptions Improves Coreference Resolution in Task-Based Dialogue Systems

    Apr 30, 2026Oier Ijurco, Oier Lopez de LacalleCoreference ResolutionConversational Agents

    HiTZ Center - Ixa, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU

  7. StarDrinks: An English and Korean Test Set for SLU Evaluation in a Drink Ordering Scenario

    Apr 29, 2026Marcely Zanon Boito, Caroline Brun, Inyoung Kim +5Spoken Language UnderstandingConversational Agents

    NAVER LABS Europe

  8. SecMate: Multi-Agent Adaptive Cybersecurity Troubleshooting with Tri-Context Personalization

    Apr 29, 2026Yair Meidan, Omri Haller, Yulia Moshan +4Multi-Agent LLM SystemsCybersecurity

    Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

  9. FAMA: Failure-Aware Meta-Agentic Framework for Open-Source LLMs in Interactive Tool Use Environments

    Apr 28, 2026Amir Saeidi, Venkatesh Mishra, Souradeep Mukhopadhyay +4AI Agent ReliabilityMulti-Agent LLM Systems

    Arizona State University · Cisco Research

  10. The Limits of Artificial Companionship

    Apr 26, 2026Mauricio FigueroaHuman-AI InteractionAI Governance

    Durham University, Law School

  11. Bridging Reasoning and Action: Hybrid LLM-RL Framework for Efficient Cross-Domain Task-Oriented Dialogue

    Apr 25, 2026Yangyang Zhao, Linfan Dai, Li Cai +2Constrained RLLLM-Guided RL

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Changsha University of Science and Technology · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University · Text Computing and Cognitive Intelligence MOE Engineering Research Center, Guizhou University +2

  12. Optimal Question Selection from a Large Question Bank for Clinical Field Recovery in Conversational Psychiatric Intake

    Apr 23, 2026Guan Gui, Peter Zandi, Jacob Taylor +1HealthcareMental Health

    Johns Hopkins University

  13. Brief chatbot interactions produce lasting changes in human moral values

    Apr 23, 2026Yue Teng, Qianer Zhong, Kim Mai Tich Nguyen Thordsen +2Conversational AgentsMoral Reasoning

    Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. · Techno-Entrepreneurship Core, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. · Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. +4

  14. Using Machine Mental Imagery for Representing Common Ground in Situated Dialogue

    Apr 22, 2026Biswesh Mohapatra, Giovanni Duca, Laurent Romary +1Multimodal GroundingConversational Agents

    Inria · University of Trento · Work done during Master’s thesis at Inria. +1

  15. Context: Proactive Goal-Directed Intelligence via Composable Sandboxed Programs, Declarative Wiring, and Structured Interaction

    Apr 21, 2026Gregory MagarshakLLM Agent OrchestrationProactive Assistance

    Qbix, Inc. & Intercoin, Inc. · New York, USA · Also with IE University NYC.

  16. Talking to a Know-It-All GPT or a Second-Guesser Claude? How Repair reveals unreliable Multi-Turn Behavior in LLMs

    Apr 21, 2026Clara Lachenmaier, Hannah Bultmann, Sina ZarrießLLM Self-CorrectionHuman-AI Interaction

    Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics Bielefeld University, Germany

  17. IceBreaker for Conversational Agents: Breaking the First-Message Barrier with Personalized Starters

    Apr 20, 2026Hongwei Zheng, Weiqi Wu, Zhengjia Wang +6Human-AI InteractionConversational Agents

    ByteDance

  18. StoryMI: Steerable Multi-Agent Therapeutic Dialogue Generation

    Apr 18, 2026Qingyu Meng, Min Chen, Dingming Liu +5Mental Health CounselingMulti-Agent LLM Systems

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NII, Tokyo Institute of Technology

  19. VoxMind: An End-to-End Agentic Spoken Dialogue System

    Apr 17, 2026Tianle Liang, Yifu Chen, Shengpeng Ji +7Multi-Agent LLM SystemsSpoken Dialogue Systems

    Zhejiang University · China University of Petroleum-Beijing at Karamay · Xiamen University

  20. From Stateless to Situated: Building a Psychological World for LLM-Based Agents

    Mar 26, 2026Boning Zhao, Yutong Hu, Xinnuo LiEmotional Support ConversationLLM Agents

    Independent Researcher, Shanghai, China · New York University, New York, NY, USA

  21. TeachingCoach: A Fine-Tuned Scaffolding Chatbot for Instructional Guidance to Instructors

    Mar 18, 2026Isabel Molnar, Peiyu Li, Si Chen +5Educational TechnologyConversational Agents

    University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

  22. SpokenUS: A Spoken User Simulator for Task-Oriented Dialogue

    Mar 17, 2026Jonggeun Lee, Junseong Pyo, Jeongmin Park +1Spoken Dialogue SystemsConversational Agents

    Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University · Department of Information Systems, Hanyang University · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University

  23. Rethinking Evaluation in Retrieval-Augmented Personalized Dialogue: A Cognitive and Linguistic Perspective

    Mar 15, 2026Tianyi Zhang, David TraumRAG EvaluationConversational Agents

    Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California 12015 Waterfront Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536, USA

  24. Mind the Style: Impact of Communication Style on Human-Chatbot Interaction

    Feb 19, 2026Erik Derner, Dalibor Kučera, Aditya Gulati +2Human-AI InteractionConversational Agents

    ELLIS Alicante, Alicante, Spain · Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic · University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

  25. FloCA: Towards Faithful and Logically Consistent Flowchart Reasoning

    Feb 15, 2026Jinzi Zou, Bolin Wang, Shuo Zhang +2LLM Hallucination MitigationConversational Agents

    MoE KLINNS Lab, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P. R. China · China Mobile Group Shaanxi Co., Ltd.

  26. Understanding Persuasive Interactions between Generative Social Agents and Humans: The Knowledge-based Persuasion Model (KPM)

    Feb 12, 2026Stephan Vonschallen, Friederike Eyssel, Theresa SchmiedelHuman-Centered AIConversational Agents

    Institute of Information Systems, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland · Institute for Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland · Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany

  27. Controllable Memory Usage: Balancing Anchoring and Innovation in Long-Term Human-Agent Interaction

    Jan 8, 2026Muzhao Tian, Zisu Huang, Xiaohua Wang +8Long-Term Conversational MemoryConversational Agents

    College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing

  28. Identifying and Mitigating Bottlenecks in Role-Playing Agents: A Systematic Study of Disentangling Character Profile Axes

    Jan 8, 2026Yonghyun Jun, Junhyuk Choi, Jeonghyun Park +3LLM AlignmentPersonality Modeling in Language Models

    Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea

  29. SimRPD: Optimizing Recruitment Proactive Dialogue Agents through Simulator-Based Data Evaluation and Selection

    Jan 6, 2026Zhiyong Cao, Dunqiang Liu, Qi Dai +9Synthetic Data GenerationConversational Agents

    Zhaopin Limited · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Automation,Beijing Institute of Technology +3

  30. Towards Explainable Conversational AI for Early Diagnosis with Large Language Models

    Dec 19, 2025Maliha Tabassum, M Shamim KaiserMedical DiagnosisConversational Agents

    Department of Information and Communication Technology Bangladesh University of Professionals Dhaka 1216, Bangladesh · Institute of Information Technology Jahangirnagar University Dhaka 1342, Bangaldesh