no code implementations • EMNLP 2021 • Ishaan Grover, Matthew Huggins, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
Recent state-of-the-art approaches in open-domain dialogue include training end-to-end deep-learning models to learn various conversational features like emotional content of response, symbolic transitions of dialogue contexts in a knowledge graph and persona of the agent and the user, among others.
1 code implementation • 31 Oct 2024 • Yubin Kim, Chanwoo Park, Hyewon Jeong, Cristina Grau-Vilchez, Yik Siu Chan, Xuhai Xu, Daniel McDuff, Hyeonhoon Lee, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
Medical Decision-Making (MDM) is a multi-faceted process that requires clinicians to assess complex multi-modal patient data patient, often collaboratively.
no code implementations • 3 Oct 2024 • Pedro Colon-Hernandez, Nanxi Liu, Chelsea Joe, Peter Chin, Claire Yin, Henry Lieberman, Yida Xin, Cynthia Breazeal
Generating commonsense assertions within a given story context remains a difficult task for modern language models.
1 code implementation • 27 May 2024 • Jocelyn Shen, Joel Mire, Hae Won Park, Cynthia Breazeal, Maarten Sap
We introduce a novel, theory-based taxonomy, HEART (Human Empathy and Narrative Taxonomy) that delineates elements of narrative style that can lead to empathy with the narrator of a story.
no code implementations • 24 May 2024 • Jocelyn Shen, Yubin Kim, Mohit Hulse, Wazeer Zulfikar, Sharifa Alghowinem, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
Modeling empathy is a complex endeavor that is rooted in interpersonal and experiential dimensions of human interaction, and remains an open problem within AI.
1 code implementation • 22 Apr 2024 • Yubin Kim, Chanwoo Park, Hyewon Jeong, Yik Siu Chan, Xuhai Xu, Daniel McDuff, Hyeonhoon Lee, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
MDAgents achieved the best performance in seven out of ten benchmarks on tasks requiring an understanding of medical knowledge and multi-modal reasoning, showing a significant improvement of up to 4. 2% (p < 0. 05) compared to previous methods' best performances.
no code implementations • 17 Mar 2024 • Dong Won Lee, Hae Won Park, Yoon Kim, Cynthia Breazeal, Louis-Philippe Morency
We describe an approach for aligning an LLM-based dialogue agent based on global (i. e., dialogue-level) rewards, while also taking into account naturally-occurring multimodal signals.
no code implementations • 29 Jan 2024 • Serena Bono, Spandan Madan, Ishaan Grover, Mao Yasueda, Cynthia Breazeal, Hanspeter Pfister, Gabriel Kreiman
Here we present a new methodology to evaluate such generalization of RL agents under small shifts in the transition probabilities.
1 code implementation • 12 Jan 2024 • Yubin Kim, Xuhai Xu, Daniel McDuff, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
Notably, we observe that our context enhancement can yield up to 23. 8% improvement in performance.
no code implementations • 8 Dec 2023 • Prerna Ravi, Annalisa Broski, Glenda Stump, Hal Abelson, Eric Klopfer, Cynthia Breazeal
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its associated applications are ubiquitous in today's world, making it imperative that students and their teachers understand how it works and the ramifications arising from its usage.
no code implementations • 22 Nov 2023 • Safinah Ali, Cynthia Breazeal
Concerns about plagiarizing their artworks and styles for datasets and uncertainty around the future of digital art sparked movements in artist communities shunning the use of AI for generating art and protecting artists' rights.
no code implementations • 29 May 2023 • Safinah Ali, Vishesh Kumar, Cynthia Breazeal
The game mechanics reward systems that are ethically developed or that take steps to mitigate potential harms.
no code implementations • 23 May 2023 • Jocelyn Shen, Maarten Sap, Pedro Colon-Hernandez, Hae Won Park, Cynthia Breazeal
The most meaningful connections between people are often fostered through expression of shared vulnerability and emotional experiences in personal narratives.
no code implementations • 21 May 2023 • Yubin Kim, Dong Won Lee, Paul Pu Liang, Sharifa Algohwinem, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
Accurately modeling affect dynamics, which refers to the changes and fluctuations in emotions and affective displays during human conversations, is crucial for understanding human interactions.
no code implementations • 19 May 2023 • Safinah Ali, Daniella DiPaola, Randi Williams, Prerna Ravi, Cynthia Breazeal
Generative AI tools introduce new and accessible forms of media creation for youth.
1 code implementation • 4 May 2023 • Hang Jiang, Xiajie Zhang, Xubo Cao, Cynthia Breazeal, Deb Roy, Jad Kabbara
Despite the many use cases for large language models (LLMs) in creating personalized chatbots, there has been limited research on evaluating the extent to which the behaviors of personalized LLMs accurately and consistently reflect specific personality traits.
no code implementations • 19 Apr 2023 • Dong Won Lee, Yubin Kim, Rosalind Picard, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
As we move closer to real-world AI systems, AI agents must be able to deal with multiparty (group) conversations.
no code implementations • 10 Feb 2023 • Pedro Colon-Hernandez, Henry Lieberman, Yida Xin, Claire Yin, Cynthia Breazeal, Peter Chin
Contextualized or discourse aware commonsense inference is the task of generating coherent commonsense assertions (i. e., facts) from a given story, and a particular sentence from that story.
no code implementations • 28 Dec 2022 • Yubin Kim, Huili Chen, Sharifa Alghowinem, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
This work serves as the first step toward fully unlocking the potential of end-to-end video understanding models pre-trained on large public datasets and augmented with data augmentation and visualization techniques for affect recognition in the multi-person human-robot interaction in the wild.
no code implementations • 14 Dec 2022 • Kate Pearce, Sharifa Alghowinem, Cynthia Breazeal
As such, we propose the development of an open-source tool (Build-a-Bot) for students and teachers to not only create their own transformer-based chatbots based on their own course material, but also learn the fundamentals of AI through the model creation process.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2022 • Sigurdur Orn Adalgeirsson, Cynthia Breazeal
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) offer a promising world representation for autonomous agents, as they can model both transitional and perceptual uncertainties.
no code implementations • 10 Jun 2022 • Siyu Liu, Catherine Lu, Sharifa Alghowinem, Lea Gotoh, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
The prevalence of suicide has been on the rise since the 20th century, causing severe emotional damage to individuals, families, and communities alike.
no code implementations • 13 Nov 2021 • Zhuoyue Lyu, Safinah Ali, Cynthia Breazeal
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are a compelling way to introduce K-12 students to AI education using an artistic medium, and hence have drawn attention from K-12 AI educators.
1 code implementation • Findings (ACL) 2021 • Pedro Colon-Hernandez, Yida Xin, Henry Lieberman, Catherine Havasi, Cynthia Breazeal, Peter Chin
Retrofitting is a technique used to move word vectors closer together or further apart in their space to reflect their relationships in a Knowledge Base (KB).
no code implementations • 28 Jan 2021 • Pedro Colon-Hernandez, Catherine Havasi, Jason Alonso, Matthew Huggins, Cynthia Breazeal
In recent years, transformer-based language models have achieved state of the art performance in various NLP benchmarks.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2020 • Ravi Tejwani, Boris Katz, Cynthia Breazeal
The migration of conversational AI agents across different embodiments in order to maintain the continuity of the task has been recently explored to further improve user experience.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2020 • Ravi Tejwani, Boris Katz, Cynthia Breazeal
Conversational AI agents are becoming ubiquitous and provide assistance to us in our everyday activities.
no code implementations • 20 Aug 2020 • Huili Chen, Yue Zhang, Felix Weninger, Rosalind Picard, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
Automatic speech-based affect recognition of individuals in dyadic conversation is a challenging task, in part because of its heavy reliance on manual pre-processing.