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  1. One-shot emergency psychiatric triage across 15 frontier AI chatbots

    Apr 28, 2026Veith Weilnhammer, Lennart Luettgau, Christopher Summerfield +4TriagePsychiatric Reasoning

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

    Apr 28, 2026Amir Saeidi, Venkatesh Mishra, Souradeep Mukhopadhyay +4Llm-Based AgentLarge Language

  3. The Dynamics of Delusion: Modeling Bidirectional False Belief Amplification in Human-Chatbot Dialogue

    Apr 28, 2026Ashish Mehta, Jared Moore, Jacy Reese Anthis +6ChatbotsBelief

  4. Beyond the Attention Stability Boundary: Agentic Self-Synthesizing Reasoning Protocols

    Apr 27, 2026Dahlia Shehata, Ming LiAgentic Tool UseMulti-Turn Conversations

  5. Scalable LLM-based Coding of Dialogue in Healthcare Simulation: Balancing Coding Performance, Processing Time, and Environmental Impact

    Apr 25, 2026Kiyoshige Garces, Gloria Milena Fernandez-Nieto, Linxuan Zhao +4Simulated PatientsConversational Benchmarks

  6. Evaluating Temporal Consistency in Multi-Turn Language Models

    Apr 24, 2026Yash Kumar Atri, Steven L. Johnson, Tom HartvigsenMulti-Turn InteractionsNarrative Coherence

  7. Inter-Stance: A Dyadic Multimodal Corpus for Conversational Stance Analysis

    Apr 24, 2026Xiang Zhang, Xiaotian Li, Taoyue Wang +9Multimodal DatasetMultimodal Learning

  8. Spontaneous Persuasion: An Audit of Model Persuasiveness in Everyday Conversations

    Apr 23, 2026Nalin Poungpeth, Nicholas Clark, Tanu MitraPersuasionHuman-Written Text

  9. Nemobot Games: Crafting Strategic AI Gaming Agents for Interactive Learning with Large Language Models

    Apr 23, 2026Chee Wei Tan, Yuchen Wang, Shangxin GuoChatbotsRobocasa

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

    Apr 23, 2026Yue Teng, Qianer Zhong, Kim Mai Tich Nguyen Thordsen +2Moral ReasoningEthics

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

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

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

    Apr 21, 2026Gregory MagarshakConversational Artificial IntelligenceChatbots

  13. DR-MMSearchAgent: Deepening Reasoning in Multimodal Search Agents

    Apr 21, 2026Shengqin Wang, Wentao Yan, Huichi Zhou +4Multimodal Search AgentsMultimodal Agents

  14. 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 ZarrießLarge Language Model ReliabilityUnreliable Reasoning

  15. Self-EmoQ: Plutchik-Guided Value-based Planning to Drive Streaming Emotional TTS

    Apr 21, 2026Yue Zhao, Hongyan Li, Yong Chen +1Zero-Shot Text-To-SpeechEmotion Recognition

  16. The Rise of Verbal Tics in Large Language Models: A Systematic Analysis Across Frontier Models

    Apr 21, 2026Shuai Wu, Xue Li, Yanna Feng +3Multi-Turn ConversationsFrontier Models

  17. Tadabur: A Large-Scale Quran Audio Dataset

    Apr 21, 2026Faisal AlherranLibrispeechConversational Datasets

  18. Regulating Artificial Intimacy: From Locks and Blocks to Relational Accountability

    Apr 20, 2026Henry Fraser, Jessica M. Szczuka, Raffaele F. CirielloArtificial Intelligence CompanionsRegulation

  19. Transition-Matrix Regularization for Next Dialogue Act Prediction in Counselling Conversations

    Apr 20, 2026Eric Rudolph, Philipp Steigerwald, Jens AlbrechtNext-Token PredictionNext Activity Prediction

  20. WorldDB: A Vector Graph-of-Worlds Memory Engine with Ontology-Aware Write-Time Reconciliation

    Apr 20, 2026Harish Santhanalakshmi GanesanTemporal Knowledge GraphsExplicit Memory

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

    Apr 20, 2026Hongwei Zheng, Weiqi Wu, Zhengjia Wang +6Conversational Artificial IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence Assistants

  22. PRISMA: Preference-Reinforced Self-Training Approach for Interpretable Emotionally Intelligent Negotiation Dialogues

    Apr 20, 2026Prajwal Vijay Kajare, Priyanshu Priya, Bikash Santra +1NegotiationConversational Artificial Intelligence

  23. HiGMem: A Hierarchical and LLM-Guided Memory System for Long-Term Conversational Agents

    Apr 20, 2026Shuqi Cao, Jingyi He, Fei TanLong-Term Conversational MemoryMulti-Turn Large Language Model Conversations

  24. FreezeEmpath: Efficient Training for Empathetic Spoken Chatbots with Frozen LLMs

    Apr 20, 2026Yun Hong, Yan Zhou, Yang FengEmpathyEmotional Support

  25. Adversarial Arena: Crowdsourcing Data Generation through Interactive Competition

    Apr 20, 2026Prasoon Goyal, Sattvik Sahai, Michael Johnston +14Large Language Model GenerationConversational Datasets

  26. ThreadSumm: Summarization of Nested Discourse Threads Using Tree of Thoughts

    Apr 19, 2026Olubusayo Olabisi, Ekata Mitra, Ameeta AgrawalSummarizationMulti-Turn Conversations

  27. HorizonBench: Long-Horizon Personalization with Evolving Preferences

    Apr 19, 2026Shuyue Stella Li, Bhargavi Paranjape, Kerem Oktar +9Interaction HistoryConversational Benchmarks

  28. LANTERN: Layered Archival and Temporal Episodic Retrieval Network for Long-Context LLM Conversations

    Apr 18, 2026Rahul SubramaniMulti-Turn Large Language Model ConversationsReranking

  29. StoryMI: Steerable Multi-Agent Therapeutic Dialogue Generation

    Apr 18, 2026Qingyu Meng, Min Chen, Dingming Liu +5Synthesizing Long-Horizon Campus Psychological Counseling DialoguesCognitive Behavioral Therapy

  30. Aligning Backchannel and Dialogue Context Representations via Contrastive LLM Fine-Tuning

    Apr 17, 2026Livia Qian, Gabriel SkantzeLarge Language Model BackbonesConversational Benchmarks

  31. CIG: Measuring Conversational Information Gain in Deliberative Dialogues with Semantic Memory Dynamics

    Apr 17, 2026Ming-Bin Chen, Jey Han Lau, Lea FrermannDeliberationInformation Gain

  32. CAMP: Cumulative Agentic Masking and Pruning for Privacy Protection in Multi-Turn LLM Conversations

    Apr 16, 2026Aman PanjwaniAI Privacy Risks and ProtectionMulti-Turn Large Language Model Conversations

  33. Learning in Blocks: A Multi Agent Debate Assisted Personalized Adaptive Learning Framework for Language Learning

    Mar 29, 2026Nicy Scaria, Silvester John Joseph Kennedy, Deepak SubramaniMultilingual AgentsMulti-Agent Debate

  34. The Hidden Puppet Master: Predicting Human Belief Change in Manipulative LLM Dialogues

    Mar 21, 2026Jocelyn Shen, Amina Luvsanchultem, Jessica Kim +6Multi-Turn Large Language Model ConversationsBelief

  35. SocialOmni: Benchmarking Audio-Visual Social Interactivity in Omni Models

    Mar 17, 2026Tianyu Xie, Jinfa Huang, Yuexiao Ma +11Omni-ModalConversational Benchmarks

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

    Mar 17, 2026Jonggeun Lee, Junseong Pyo, Jeongmin Park +1Voice AgentsDialogue

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

    Mar 15, 2026Tianyi Zhang, David TraumConversational BenchmarksInformation Retrieval Metrics

  38. Towards Natural Personalization: Evaluating Long-Horizon Preference Following in Personalized User-LLM Interactions

    Mar 4, 2026Qianyun Guo, Yibo Li, Yue Liu +1PersonalizationChatbots

  39. Exploring Plan Space through Conversation: An Agentic Framework for LLM-Mediated Explanations in Planning

    Mar 2, 2026Guilhem Fouilhé, Rebecca Eifler, Antonin Poché +2Large Language Model PlanningClassical Planning

  40. SpecMind: Cognitively Inspired, Interactive Multi-Turn Framework for Postcondition Inference

    Feb 24, 2026Cuong Chi Le, Minh V. T Pham, Tung Vu Duy +4Mock-Interface SynthesisSelf-Speculative

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

    Feb 19, 2026Erik Derner, Dalibor Kučera, Aditya Gulati +2ChatbotsConversational Artificial Intelligence

  42. BoRP: Bootstrapped Regression Probing for Scalable and Human-Aligned LLM Evaluation

    Jan 26, 2026Peng Sun, Xiangyu Zhang, Duan Wu +5Large Language Model EvaluationConversational Artificial Intelligence

  43. Real-Time Deadlines Reveal Fragile Temporal Adaptation in LLM Strategic Dialogues

    Jan 19, 2026Neil K. R. Sehgal, Sharath Chandra Guntuku, Lyle UngarNegotiationMulti-Turn Large Language Model Conversations

  44. MemBuilder: Reinforcing LLMs for Long-Term Memory Construction via Attributed Dense Rewards

    Jan 9, 2026Zhiyu Shen, Ziming Wu, Fuming Lai +2Memory-Augmented Large Language ModelsLong-Term Memory

  45. Conversational AI for Rapid Scientific Prototyping: A Case Study on ESA's ELOPE Competition

    Jan 8, 2026Nils EineckeArtificial Intelligence ScientistsConversational Artificial Intelligence

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

    Jan 6, 2026Zhiyong Cao, Dunqiang Liu, Qi Dai +9Conversational DatasetsConversational Artificial Intelligence

  47. Safety boundary maintenance in consumer AI systems responding to pediatric health queries: a cross-platform benchmark evaluation under naturalistic and adversarially pressured conditions

    Dec 26, 2025Vahideh Zolfaghari, Leila Mashhadi, Mitra Ahadi +2CareChatbots

  48. GMTRouter: Personalized LLM Router over Multi-turn User Interactions

    Oct 29, 2025Yihang Sun, Encheng Xie, Tao Feng +1Large Language Model RoutingModel Preference

  49. When Users Are Happy but Agents Are Wrong: Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Tool-Augmented Dialogue

    Oct 22, 2025Tanya Shourya, Yingfan Wang, Zhaoyi Joey Hou +3Conversational Artificial IntelligenceDialogue

  50. Echoes of Human Malice in Agents: Benchmarking LLMs for Multi-Turn Online Harassment Attacks

    Oct 16, 2025Trilok Padhi, Pinxian Lu, Abdulkadir Erol +5Language Model Evasion AttacksMulti-Turn Interactions

  51. VCB Bench: An Evaluation Benchmark for Audio-Grounded Large Language Model Conversational Agents

    Oct 13, 2025Jiliang Hu, Wenfu Wang, Zuchao Li +6Large Audio Language ModelsEvaluation Benchmarks

  52. Ask-to-Clarify: Resolving Instruction Ambiguity through Multi-turn Dialogue

    Sep 18, 2025Xingyao Lin, Xinghao Zhu, Tianyi Lu +6Embodied AgentsMultimodal Agents

  53. LLMs and their Limited Theory of Mind: Evaluating Mental State Annotations in Situated Dialogue

    Sep 2, 2025Katharine Kowalyshyn, Matthias ScheutzNarrative CoherenceDialogue

  54. Post-training for Efficient Communication via Convention Formation

    Aug 8, 2025Yilun Hua, Evan Wang, Yoav ArtziLarge Language Model Post-TrainingMulti-Turn Interactions

  55. Experimental Analysis of Productive Interaction Strategy with ChatGPT: User Study on Function and Project-level Code Generation Tasks

    Aug 6, 2025Sangwon Hyun, Hyunjun Kim, Jinhyuk Jang +2Code GenerationSoftware Engineering

  56. Evaluating Memory in LLM Agents via Incremental Multi-Turn Interactions

    Jul 7, 2025Yuanzhe Hu, Yu Wang, Julian McAuleyAgent MemoryLarge Language Model Agents

  57. "Is This Really a Human Peer Supporter?": Misalignments Between Peer Supporters and Experts in LLM-Supported Interactions

    Jun 11, 2025Kellie Yu Hui Sim, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Kenny Tsu Wei ChooMental Health SupportPeers

  58. Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communication

    Sep 3, 2024Hiromu Yakura, Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez, Levin Brinkmann +7LinguisticsChatbots

  59. A Survey of Intent Classification and Slot-Filling Datasets for Task-Oriented Dialog

    Jul 26, 2022Stefan Larson, Kevin LeachNatural Language DatasetsConversational Artificial Intelligence

  60. PACE: Perceived-Latency-Aware Cascading Service Routing and Filler Control for QoE-Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Dialogue Serving

    Date pendingLin Huang, Yujuan Tan, Weisheng Li +4Low-Latency SystemsDialogue