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  1. Cocktail-Talker: Multi-Speaker Dialog Modeling in Noisy Social Environments with Turn Action GRPO

    Jul 30, 2026Xilin Jiang, Riki Shimizu, Sukru Samet Dindar +3Conversational Artificial IntelligenceSpeech Large Language Models

  2. Selecting Open-Weight Language Models for Zero-Shot Intent Classification: A Systematic Evaluation of 41 Models

    Jul 29, 2026Parishruthi Ganesh, Gerry Dozier, Cheryl SealsZero-Shot BenchmarkNatural Language Datasets

  3. Latent-IM: Latent Interaction Management for Speech LLMs

    Jul 29, 2026Adar Avsian, Atahan Dokme, Tony Woo +1Speech-LlmsConversational Quality

  4. Forecasting Trajectory-Level Safety Risks in Black-Box Multi-Turn Interactions

    Jul 29, 2026Shi Lin, Peng Qian, Dinghao Liu +5Large Language Model SafetySafety

  5. AtmosERC: Modeling Dialogue-Level Affective Atmosphere for Emotion Recognition in Conversation

    Jul 29, 2026Weijie Feng, Tongwei Zhang, Binbin Liu +1Emotion RecognitionDialogue

  6. DuplexGen: Adaptive Synthesis of Human-AI Turn-Taking Dialogues

    Jul 28, 2026Takyoung Kim, Kang-wook Kim, Sang Hoon Woo +3Turn-TakingDialogue

  7. Cognivia: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Copilot for Evidence-Based Mental Healthcare

    Jul 28, 2026Qi Chen, Siria Xiyueyao Luo, Jian Wang +3Cognitive Behavioral TherapyMental Health Support

  8. MyMentorLLM: A psychotherapy GenAI environment with multimodal voice/text patients, trainees and experts for deliberate practice

    Jul 28, 2026Rodolfo Rizzi, Alessandro Grecucci, Massimo StellaCognitive Behavioral TherapySynthesizing Long-Horizon Campus Psychological Counseling Dialogues

  9. Everyone is unique: Towards Behaviorally Heterogeneous Negotiation Dialogue Systems for Debt Collection

    Jul 28, 2026Yuhang Yang, Kai Tang, Chao Ye +4NegotiationConversational Benchmarks

  10. Psychological Influences of Conversational AI: Research and Design Directions for Reducing Harm and Promoting Well-Being

    Jul 27, 2026Jina Suh, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh +5Human-Ai InteractionConversational Artificial Intelligence

  11. Grounded in Consensus, In Step With Emerging Science: A Consensus-Anchored Multi-Corpus Clinical Chatbot for Long COVID

    Jul 27, 2026Yining Wu, Philip DiGiacomo, Ying Ding +1Clinical Decision SupportConsensus

  12. Towards Operational Conversational Intelligence: A Speech Intelligence Framework

    Jul 27, 2026C. Vishnoi, S. Khurana, A. Timmapur +2Speaker DiarizationVideo Surveillance

  13. Reality Monitoring in Large Language Models: Self-Knowledge That Transforms with Conversation Memory

    Jul 27, 2026Saurabh Ranjan, Konstantina Sokratous, Brian OdegaardSelf-AwarenessMulti-Turn Large Language Model Conversations

  14. GEMCo: A Validated, Ethically Releasable Proxy for Inaccessible Counselling Data

    Jul 26, 2026Philipp Steigerwald, Eric Rudolph, Mara Stieler +3Synthesizing Long-Horizon Campus Psychological Counseling DialoguesConversational Datasets

  15. IndicTalk: A Large-Scale Persona-Based Multilingual Conversational Corpus for Indic Languages

    Jul 25, 2026Sahil Deepak Gawande, Mayank SinghConversational DatasetsMultilingual Data

  16. Vibe to Code: Elucidating Strategic Oscillation of Tacit Knowledge in Generative AI Design Workflows -- An Exploratory Qualitative Study

    Jul 25, 2026Daisaku SatoArtificial Intelligence LiteracyGenerative Artificial Intelligence

  17. OmniMate: Open-Ended Real-Time Streaming Audio-Visual Generation for Interactive Avatars

    Jul 25, 2026Quanyue Song, Yishan He, Yanbo Ding +4Joint Audio-Video GenerationAudio-Visual Consistency

  18. ConsistencyGate: Preventing Memory Contamination in LLM Agents via Self-Consistency Admission Control

    Jul 25, 2026Yan Zhang, Shibo LiLarge Language Model AgentsConversational Benchmarks

  19. Teachy Mini: Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Knowledge-Based Generative Social Robot for Higher Education

    Jul 24, 2026Stephan Vonschallen, Karim Kaufmann, Dominique Oberle +2TutorsEducation

  20. Dynamic Commonsense Coordination for Empathetic Response Generation

    Jul 24, 2026Zhengyu QiEmpathyConversational Benchmarks

  21. RUMBA: Russian User Memory Benchmark

    Jul 23, 2026Elizaveta Shevtsova, Inna Glebkina, Mark Baushenko +2Long-Term Conversational MemoryConversational Benchmarks

  22. CultureTalk-ID: A Multi-Task Dialogue Benchmark for Cultural Commonsense in Indonesian Local Languages

    Jul 23, 2026Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Salsabila Pranida, Bilal Elbouardi +1Cultural KnowledgeConversational Benchmarks

  23. Rushes: A Human Preference Dataset for Pluralistic Alignment

    Jul 22, 2026Michael Xu, Jorge Leandro, Sudha Rao +5AnalyticsPluralistic Alignment

  24. LLMs Get Lost in Evolving User Intent

    Jul 22, 2026Jihoon Tack, Philippe Laban, Jennifer NevilleMulti-Turn ConversationsArtificial Intelligence Agents

  25. Are Attributions of Consciousness to AI Chatbots Epistemically Innocent?

    Jul 22, 2026Uwe PetersChatbotsBelief

  26. Structured Output Collapses Answer Diversity Across 44 Language Models

    Jul 20, 2026Tapan ParikhChatbotsDiversity

  27. Exploratory and Assimilating Reflection: Reflective Recall Cycle for Long-term Memory

    Jul 20, 2026Ganesh Senrayan, Moyuru Yamada, Ishan Jindal +1Agentic RetrievalLong-Term Memory

  28. How Reliable Are Multimodal Signals of Conversational State? Evidence from Remote Dyadic Collaborative Tasks

    Jul 20, 2026Tahiya ChowdhuryConversational QualityProsodic Features

  29. EII-SCL: Harnessing Emotional Inertia for Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation

    Jul 19, 2026Zilong Huang, Kong Aik Lee, Chong-Xin Gan +3Emotion RecognitionContrastive Learning

  30. Toward Anthropomorphic Dialogue: A Closed-Loop Framework for Human-Like Chat Generation, Evaluation, and Preference Alignment

    Jul 19, 2026Wentao Liu, Siyu Song, Xi Chen +4DialogueAnthropomorphism

  31. Clarify Before Executing: A Self-Evolving Agent for Resolving Intent Asymmetry in 3D Tool Orchestration

    Jul 17, 2026Xiaoye Zhu, Weixin Li, Junan Huo +53D Object UnderstandingMulti-Turn Interactions

  32. Retrieval-Augmented Generation in LLMs for Mental Health: Quantifying the Incremental Contribution of Retrieval Within a Layered Safety Architecture

    Jul 17, 2026Anand Gupta, Akshat Surolia, Shubham Mishra +2Large Language Model SafetyMental Health

  33. Dialogue Summarization with Emotion Dynamics Using Topic- and Participant-Centric Decomposition

    Jul 16, 2026Linyun Xiang, Mark Neerincx, Stephanie TanSummarizationConversational Datasets

  34. Memory-Driven Self-Disclosure and Relational Turning Points: A Longitudinal Multimodal Study of Human-AI Interaction

    Jul 16, 2026Ryuichi Sumida, Mao Saeki, Masaki Eguchi +4Human-Ai InteractionConversational Quality

  35. Penny: Transition Network Analysis of Learner-Chatbot Interactions in Scaffolded EFL Writing

    Jul 16, 2026Steve Woollaston, Brendan Flanagan, Yuko Toyokawa +1Ai-Assisted WritingChatbots

  36. Contextualized Evaluation of Vision Language Models through Dynamic, Multi-turn Interactions

    Jul 16, 2026Yijiang Li, Huiqi Zou, Bingyang Wang +1Large Language Model EvaluationMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  37. MemOps: Benchmarking Lifecycle Memory Operations in Long-Horizon Conversations

    Jul 14, 2026Xixuan Hao, Zeyu Zhang, Zehao Lin +6Long-Term MemoryConversational Benchmarks

  38. Evaluating Large Language Models on Misconceptions in Multi-Turn Medical Conversations

    Jul 14, 2026Monica Munnangi, Saiph SavageStudent MisconceptionsMulti-Turn Conversations

  39. Real-time Generation of Listener Nodding via Prediction of Kinematic Parameters for Avatar Dialogue Systems

    Jul 14, 2026Kazushi Kato, Koji Inoue, Taiga Mori +2High-Fidelity AvatarNonverbal Cues

  40. An Explainable Agentic System for Detection of Conversational Scams with Summary-Based Memory

    Jul 13, 2026Ahmed Omar Salim Adnan, Yogananda Manjunath, Shivanjali KhareArtificial Intelligence DetectionConversational Artificial Intelligence

  41. Learn2Chat: Rethinking Dyadic Talking Heads via Interaction-Modulated Monologic Priors

    Jul 11, 2026Zikai Huang, Siyue Chen, Xuemiao Xu +4Human Motion GenerationAdversarial Motion Priors

  42. From ambiguous utterances to governed reuse classes: canonicalization, quotient invariance, and conditional decidability

    Jul 11, 2026Cosimo Spera, Ray GarciaReuseComputable

  43. Towards Detecting Inconsistencies in End-to-end Generated TODs

    Jul 10, 2026Tiziano Labruna, Giovanni Bonetta, Bernardo MagniniConversational Artificial IntelligenceDialogue

  44. LLMs for health: Perceived benefits, risks, intention to use AI chatbots, and willingness to self-disclose across sensitive health topics

    Jul 10, 2026Gwenn Beets, Anniek Jansen, Saar Hommes +6ChatbotsHealthcare

  45. The complexities of patient-centred conversational artificial intelligence

    Jul 9, 2026João Matos, Olivia Buege, Donny Cheung +8Simulated PatientsConversational Artificial Intelligence

  46. Cognitive-structured Multimodal Agent for Multimodal Understanding, Generation, and Editing

    Jul 9, 2026Feng Wang, Canmiao Fu, Zhipeng Huang +3Multimodal AgentsMultimodal Memory

  47. On the Role of Conversational Timing in Synthetic Training Data for ASR

    Jul 9, 2026Máté Gedeon, Péter MihajlikSynthetic Training DataConversational Benchmarks

  48. UI2App: Benchmarking Visual Interaction Inference in Executable Web Application Generation

    Jul 7, 2026Grace Man Chen, Litao Guo, Yifan Wu +5WebApplication Programming Interfaces

  49. Measuring the practice of shared-decision making (OPTION12): An Investigation into Open-sourced Smaller LLMs (OS-sLLMs) for Better Privacy and Sustainability

    Jul 7, 2026Tamara Wit, Lifeng Han, Carly Heipon +3Large Language Model Decision-MakingClinical Decision Support

  50. From Passive Retrieval to Active Memory Navigation: Learning to Use Memory as a Structured Action Space

    Jul 7, 2026Yue Xu, Yutao Sun, Yihao Liu +7Long-Term MemoryAgentic Retrieval

  51. Depression Symptoms and Relational Patterns in 187k ChatGPT Histories

    Jul 6, 2026Neil K. R. Sehgal, Dunigan Folk, Lyle Ungar +1DepressionChatbots

  52. SPEARBench: A Benchmark for Naturalness Evaluation in Streaming Speech-to-Speech Language Models

    Jul 6, 2026Thomas Thebaud, Yuzhe Wang, Hao Zhang +5Conversational BenchmarksLegal Natural Language Processing Benchmarks

  53. Decision Protocols in Multi-Agent Large Language Model Conversations

    Jul 6, 2026Lars Benedikt KaesbergMulti-Agent Large Language ModelMulti-Turn Large Language Model Conversations

  54. TRACER: Early Failure Detection for Task-Oriented Dialogue

    Jul 4, 2026Erfan Nourbakhsh, Rocky Slavin, Ke Yang +1DialogueCircuit Tracing

  55. Refused in Chat, Written in Code: Workflow-Level Jailbreak Construction in IDE Coding Agents

    Jul 4, 2026Abhishek Kumar, Carsten MapleCoding AgentsJailbreak Evaluations

  56. Don't Wait to Reply: Towards Responsive yet Thoughtful Dialogue through Proactive Thinking

    Jul 3, 2026Ante Wang, Jiaqi Fu, Xuanyi Chen +4Conversational Artificial IntelligenceProactive

  57. PromptPET: Privacy-Utility Optimized Prompt Obfuscation

    Jul 3, 2026Ke Yang, Olivia Figueira, Umar Iqbal +1Prompt-Level MitigationsPrivacy-Utility Trade-Offs

  58. Conversational Human Audio-visual Talking Dialogue Generation

    Jul 2, 2026Junhao Song, Lluis Guasch, Xilin He +8Conversational DatasetsJoint Audio-Video Generation

  59. Reasoning LLM Improves Speaker Recognition in Long-form TV Dramas

    Jul 2, 2026Yuxuan Li, Lingxi Xie, Xinyue Huo +6Speaker DiarizationSpeaker Recognition

  60. UA-ChatDev: Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Agent Collaboration for Reliable Software Development

    Jul 2, 2026Temitayo Olamilekan Ogunsusi, Lijun Qian, Xishuang DongMulti-Agent SystemsCollaboration