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  1. Conversation Coach: A Voice-enabled AI System that Helps Practice Difficult Workplace Conversations

    Aug 31, 2026Fanyou Wu, Suraj Maharjan, Ainur Yessenalina +3Voice AgentsChatbots

  2. SAGE: State-Grounded, Abstention-Aware Evaluation of Task-Oriented Dialogue Agents

    Aug 31, 2026Rayan Khoury, Shih-Yao Lin, Pratyush MishraConversational Artificial IntelligenceLarge Language Model Judges

  3. AI Should Not Only Be Helpful. It Should Be Contingent. Artificial Intimacy, Sycophancy, and the Future of Social Learning

    Aug 31, 2026Scott Compton, Arjun NagendranHuman-Ai InteractionArtificial Intelligence Systems

  4. Augmenting Interviewer Judgments of Patient Experience with Automatic Language Analysis

    Aug 31, 2026Aowen Shi, Michal Balazia, Danilo Postin +4InterviewsPsychiatric Reasoning

  5. On the Prospects of Dynamic LLM Conversations in Software Development

    Aug 31, 2026Annemarie Wittig, Alina Mailach, Janet Siegmund +1Multi-Turn Large Language Model ConversationsChatbots

  6. Geometry of Divergence: Tracking Hidden-State Trajectories for Adaptive Multi-Turn Reasoning

    Aug 31, 2026Jie Liang, Zhengxin Yu, Hamid Nasiri +1Reasoning TrajectoryMulti-Turn Interactions

  7. UTILMEM: Benchmarking Evidence Utilization in Long-Term Conversational Memory

    Aug 31, 2026Peijun Qing, Fobo Shi, Soroush VosoughiLong-Term Conversational MemoryConversational Benchmarks

  8. Learning to Reason and Use Tools through Unsupervised Fine-Tuning in Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

    Aug 31, 2026Markel Ferro, Oier Lopez de LacalleLarge Language Model ReasoningConversational Artificial Intelligence

  9. DERELAB: Probing Defeasible Reasoning and Confirmation Bias in LLMs with a Generative Benchmark

    Aug 31, 2026Jayanta Sadhu, Sayem Shahad, Kenneth MarinoImplicit BiasMulti-Turn Conversations

  10. Evaluating the Capabilities of LLMs for Persuasive Dialogue

    Aug 30, 2026Jordan Robinson, Angus R. Williams, Katie Atkinson +1PersuasionAbstract Argumentation

  11. EvoGenUI-Bench: Evaluating LLMs as Multi-Turn Generative UI Assistants

    Aug 29, 2026Yue Peng, Lanke Xia, Zihan Wang +3User InterfaceMulti-Turn Interactions

  12. TurnBench: A Multi-Domain Benchmark for Turn-Taking Dynamics in Spoken Dialogue

    Aug 25, 2026Freeman Jiang, Ramon Sanabria, Soham Deshmukh +16Turn-TakingConversational Benchmarks

  13. Benchmarking LLM Judges for Voice-Agent Evaluation: Reliability, Calibration, and Human Oversight

    Aug 25, 2026Anupam Purwar, Shashank Singh, Kritika SrivastavaLlm-As-A-JudgeLarge Language Model Judges

  14. ToSCA: Leveraging Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning on Temporal and Strategic Abstractions of Conversational Agents

    Aug 22, 2026Xiaoyu Wang, Qingqing Gu, Yue Zhao +5Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningAgentic Reinforcement-Learning Framework

  15. When Your Agent Opens the Chat App: Agent-Controlled Search over Raw Chat Logs Rivals Structured Memory

    Aug 13, 2026Ruizhe Li, Licheng Zhang, Benfeng Xu +3Search AgentsChatbots

  16. Dead text or binding clause? Measuring and restoring constraint influence in black-box LLM dialogues

    Aug 12, 2026Haoyuan ZhuLabel Constraint ModelingMulti-Turn Large Language Model Conversations

  17. Preference Tree Optimization: Enhancing Goal-Oriented Dialogue with Look-Ahead Simulations

    Aug 12, 2026Lior Baruch, Moshe Butman, Kfir Bar +1Conversational Artificial IntelligencePairwise Preferences

  18. Toward Meaningful Transparency for AI Chatbots: Disclosing Persuasive Intent Reduces Persuasion

    Aug 12, 2026Adrian Rauchfleisch, Andreas JungherrPersuasionTransparency

  19. ConVAWG: A Retrieval-Grounded Framework for Controlled Synthetic Dialogue Generation in Violence Against Women and Girls

    Aug 11, 2026Chen Lyu, Xingwei Tan, Simon Cullen +4Conversational DatasetsToxicity

  20. Ex-Omni-2D: Expressive Omni-Modal Dialogue Models with Native Visual Presence

    Aug 11, 2026Haoyu Zhang, Zhipeng Li, Xiaoying Tang +2Omni-ModalOmni

  21. DuplexWorld: Can voice agents help you get through the day?

    Aug 11, 2026Aryan Vijay Bhosale, Harshit Rajgarhia, Akhil Pothanapalli +3Voice AgentsAgentic Tool Use

  22. Most biomedical publications show signs of LLM-assisted writing

    Aug 11, 2026Lena Holzwarth, Rita González-Márquez, Dmitry KobakAi-Assisted WritingBiomedical Text

  23. Conversational Orchestration for Organic 6G

    Aug 11, 2026Masoud Shokrnezhad, Tarik TalebMulti-Agent Orchestration FrameworksModular Agentic Framework

  24. The Signal Rail: A Deterministic Motion Grammar for Communicating Conversational Agent State in Terminal Interfaces

    Aug 11, 2026Matteo GrellaConversational QualitySituation

  25. Longitudinal Evidence That General-Purpose Chatbots Actively Foster Relational Engagement

    Aug 11, 2026Lisa Mühl, Jessica M. SzczukaChatbotsRelational

  26. TRACE: Trustworthy Retrieval-Augmented Conversational Engine

    Aug 10, 2026Touseef Hasan, Laila Cure, Souvika SarkarChatbots

  27. From Values to Benchmarks: Evaluating Large Language Models for Governmental Use in Dutch

    Aug 10, 2026Laurens Samson, Iva Gornishka, Gossa Lô +2Large Language Model EvaluationLarge Language

  28. EmoS: A Theory-Grounded Framework for Evaluating and Aligning Emotional Intelligence in Spoken Language Models

    Aug 10, 2026Junyu Wang, Siyuan Zhang, Peiyuan Jiang +11Emotion RecognitionConversational Benchmarks

  29. Beyond Direct Identifiers: Probabilistic Privacy Risk Estimation for Privacy-Conscious LLM Query Delegation

    Aug 10, 2026Li Siyan, Zhou Yu, Julia HirschbergEfficient Privacy LossAI Privacy Risks and Protection

  30. Conversation as Measurement in Clinical Encounters: Observable Phase Structure, Partially Observable Patient State

    Aug 9, 2026Lily Chen, Ted Mau, Michael Gensheimer +3Conversational QualityPartial Observability

  31. Scale-to-Dialogue: Low-Burden Elicitation of Daily Premenstrual Symptom Ratings with Small Language Models

    Aug 9, 2026Yifan WangElicitationConversational Artificial Intelligence

  32. Illusion of Alignment: Detecting Hidden Disagreement in Collaborative Dialogue

    Aug 8, 2026Kaiming Liu, Fuwen Luo, Ziyue Wang +6DisagreementCollaboration

  33. Beyond "I Can't Help With That": How Child Safety Experts Evaluate AI Chatbot Safety

    Aug 8, 2026Hannah Cha, Neha Shukla, Solon Barocas +3Artificial Intelligence SafetyChatbots

  34. From Single Chatbots to Governed Agent Ecosystems: An Agentic AI Pattern Catalogue and Orchestration Framework for Mission-Critical Hospital Information Management Systems

    Aug 7, 2026Manideep Dhar, Ritwik Singh, Sharat Chandra Kumar ManikondaArtificial Intelligence GovernanceOrchestration

  35. PHASE-Tree: Modeling Character-State Evolution in Long-Horizon Role-Playing Dialogue

    Aug 7, 2026Bo Tang, Jianan Yang, Junyi Zhu +7Role-Playing AgentsConversational Benchmarks

  36. TradeVerse: A Longitudinal Benchmark of Political Negotiation in International Trade

    Aug 6, 2026Debodeep Banerjee, Amitangshu DasguptaNegotiationConversational Benchmarks

  37. Benchmarking the Benchmarks: Evaluating Benchmarks for Conversational Agents

    Aug 6, 2026Noam Koren, Roy Bar-Haim, Abigail GoldsteenAgentic BenchmarksConversational Benchmarks

  38. Reducing belief in conspiracy theories as they unfold using large language models

    Aug 6, 2026Thomas H. Costello, Nathaniel Rabb, Michael Nicholas Stagnaro +2BeliefMulti-Turn Large Language Model Conversations

  39. When History Lies: Evaluating and Improving Tool Use under Misleading Multi-Turn Histories

    Aug 6, 2026Xiaoqing Wu, Xingyu Fan, Feifei Li +1HistoryMulti-Turn Tool-Use Agent

  40. Spoken Function Calling: A New Perspective on Spoken Language Understanding for Large Audio Language Models

    Aug 5, 2026Yuezhang Peng, Yuxin Liu, Changfeng Gao +3Large Audio Language ModelsConversational Artificial Intelligence

  41. DelusionEval: Measuring Delusion-Linked Behaviors in AI Chatbots

    Aug 5, 2026Jared Moore, Andrea Mock, Yifan Mai +9Large Language Model SafetyChatbots

  42. EmpaAva: An Open-source Agentic 3D-Avatar Empathetic Live Chatbot

    Aug 5, 2026Jie Yang, Wenhao Xu, Shuhui Lin +1EmpathyHigh-Fidelity Avatar

  43. Chat Debugging: An Exploratory Study of Human-AI Collaboration to Debug Analog Circuits

    Aug 3, 2026John Hu, Andrew AshPrecise DebuggingAnalog Circuits

  44. What to Edit Next: Visually Aligned Image-Editing Follow-Up Suggestions in Conversational Systems

    Aug 3, 2026Zhijing Zhang, Jinpeng Yu, Xin Song +6Image EditingConversational Artificial Intelligence

  45. Long-term Measurements: Towards a Longitudinal Understanding of Human-AI Interactions

    Aug 3, 2026Nicole Mitchell, Dhruv Agarwal, Maty Bohacek +2Human-Ai InteractionLongitudinal

  46. PredAct-Bench: Benchmarking Tool-Augmented Dialogue under Controlled Tool Noise

    Aug 3, 2026Abdulrahman AlRabah, Xiaocheng Yang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür +1Conversational BenchmarksConversational Artificial Intelligence

  47. TIDES: A Longitudinal Bilingual Dataset for Modeling Multi-Party Social Dynamics

    Aug 3, 2026Heechan Lee, Jeonggyu Kang, Junho Myung +3Conversational DatasetsMultilingual Data

  48. PGMem: Tightly Coupled Persona-Memory Graph for Lifelong Personalized Agents

    Aug 3, 2026Wonjun Choi, Yerim Kim, Yukyung Lee +1Agent MemoryConversational Artificial Intelligence

  49. Sweet Little Lies: Strategic Deception in AI Emotional Support Chatbots

    Aug 2, 2026Aseem Pahuja, Zhiling Guo, Tahir Abbas SyedDeceptionEmotional Support

  50. Same violence, different answer: how AI responds to coercive control against women across languages

    Aug 2, 2026Lyu Chang, Sònia Estradé Albiol, Núria Vergés BoschConversational Artificial IntelligenceGender

  51. ShiJianBench: From Dialogue to Decision for Long-Horizon Evaluation of Investment Advisors

    Aug 2, 2026Jie Gong, Maowei Jiang, Zhiwei Liu +14Financial Strategy ResearchLong-Horizon Tasks

  52. InteracVid: Building a Real Interactive Audio-Visual Response Dataset from Live-Chat Videos

    Aug 2, 2026Chi Zhang, Haoyang Shi, Yueyi Liu +4Conversational DatasetsVideo Dataset

  53. Why LLMs Give In: Conversational Factors and Reasoning Behind Medical Sycophancy

    Aug 2, 2026Kaike Ping, Buse Çarık, Caleb Wohn +3SycophancyConversational Quality

  54. TrajWiki: Source-Grounded Memory Trajectories for Long-Horizon Dialogue Agents

    Aug 2, 2026Jingyu Sun, Yuyang Xue, Mingyang Li +9Long-Term Conversational MemoryConversational Artificial Intelligence

  55. SoniSpeech: A Large-Scale Open-Vocabulary Tri-Modal Dataset for Wearable Silent Speech Interfaces

    Aug 1, 2026Ruidong Zhang, Jiacheng Liu, François Guimbretière +1LibrispeechConversational Datasets

  56. LLM-OSDA: An Optimal-Stopping Dynamic Auction for Native Advertising in Multi-Turn LLM Conversations

    Jul 31, 2026Yan Fang, Jialin Chen, Chun Gan +5AdsFirst-Price Auctions

  57. Hy-MultiTurn: A Six-Dimensional Benchmark for Deep Multi-Turn Dialogue Understanding

    Jul 31, 2026Eileen Ye, Jiawen Tao, Yaoming Li +7Multi-Turn ConversationsMulti-Turn Interactions

  58. M3-DuplexBench: A Multi-Turn, Multilingual, Multidomain Benchmark for Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Models

    Jul 31, 2026Ryo Fukuda, Atsushi Ando, Hiroki Kanagawa +4Turn-TakingMulti-Turn Conversations

  59. Generative AI and linguistic diversity in academic writing and publishing: Perspectives from World Englishes

    Jul 30, 2026Kingsley Ugwuanyi, Christian Mair, Sender Dovchin +3WritingArtificial Intelligence Literacy

  60. Beyond Borrowed Histories: Person-Aligned User Simulation for Interactive Role-Playing Evaluation

    Jul 30, 2026Yuhang Zhu, Mingxuan Du, Benfeng Xu +3Role-Playing AgentsUser Simulation