no code implementations • NAACL (ACL) 2022 • Minhua Chen, Badrinath Jayakumar, Michael Johnston, S. Eman Mahmoodi, Daniel Pressel
A key challenge in the creation and refinement of virtual assistants is the ability to mine unlabeled utterance data to discover common intents.
no code implementations • NAACL (ACL) 2022 • Daniel Pressel, Wenshuo Liu, Michael Johnston, Minhua Chen
To understand how training on conversational language impacts performance of pre-trained models on downstream dialogue tasks, we build compact Transformer-based Language Models from scratch on several large corpora of conversational data.
no code implementations • 8 May 2024 • Vishnu Sashank Dorbala, Prasoon Goyal, Robinson Piramuthu, Michael Johnston, Reza Ghanadhan, Dinesh Manocha
However, in evaluating the data using an LLM, we observe a low correlation of 46. 2% with the ground truth human annotations; indicating that while LLMs are good at generating situational data, they struggle to answer them according to consensus.
no code implementations • 12 Apr 2024 • James F. Mullen Jr, Prasoon Goyal, Robinson Piramuthu, Michael Johnston, Dinesh Manocha, Reza Ghanadan
Our work assists in this goal by enabling robots to inform their users of dangerous or unsanitary anomalies in their home.
no code implementations • 1 Apr 2024 • Casey Kennington, Malihe Alikhani, Heather Pon-Barry, Katherine Atwell, Yonatan Bisk, Daniel Fried, Felix Gervits, Zhao Han, Mert Inan, Michael Johnston, Raj Korpan, Diane Litman, Matthew Marge, Cynthia Matuszek, Ross Mead, Shiwali Mohan, Raymond Mooney, Natalie Parde, Jivko Sinapov, Angela Stewart, Matthew Stone, Stefanie Tellex, Tom Williams
The ability to interact with machines using natural human language is becoming not just commonplace, but expected.
no code implementations • 14 Oct 2023 • Jiachen Li, Qiaozi Gao, Michael Johnston, Xiaofeng Gao, Xuehai He, Suhaila Shakiah, Hangjie Shi, Reza Ghanadan, William Yang Wang
In this work, we tackle the problem of training a robot to understand multimodal prompts, interleaving vision signals with text descriptions.
no code implementations • 9 Aug 2023 • Hangjie Shi, Leslie Ball, Govind Thattai, Desheng Zhang, Lucy Hu, Qiaozi Gao, Suhaila Shakiah, Xiaofeng Gao, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Bofei Yang, Cadence Chung, Dinakar Guthy, Gaurav Sukhatme, Karthika Arumugam, Matthew Wen, Osman Ipek, Patrick Lange, Rohan Khanna, Shreyas Pansare, Vasu Sharma, Chao Zhang, Cris Flagg, Daniel Pressel, Lavina Vaz, Luke Dai, Prasoon Goyal, Sattvik Sahai, Shaohua Liu, Yao Lu, Anna Gottardi, Shui Hu, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Kate Bland, Heather Rocker, James Jeun, Yadunandana Rao, Michael Johnston, Akshaya Iyengar, Arindam Mandal, Prem Natarajan, Reza Ghanadan
The Alexa Prize program has empowered numerous university students to explore, experiment, and showcase their talents in building conversational agents through challenges like the SocialBot Grand Challenge and the TaskBot Challenge.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2023 • Qiaozi Gao, Govind Thattai, Suhaila Shakiah, Xiaofeng Gao, Shreyas Pansare, Vasu Sharma, Gaurav Sukhatme, Hangjie Shi, Bofei Yang, Desheng Zheng, Lucy Hu, Karthika Arumugam, Shui Hu, Matthew Wen, Dinakar Guthy, Cadence Chung, Rohan Khanna, Osman Ipek, Leslie Ball, Kate Bland, Heather Rocker, Yadunandana Rao, Michael Johnston, Reza Ghanadan, Arindam Mandal, Dilek Hakkani Tur, Prem Natarajan
We introduce Alexa Arena, a user-centric simulation platform for Embodied AI (EAI) research.
no code implementations • 31 Jan 2023 • Cat P. Le, Luke Dai, Michael Johnston, Yang Liu, Marilyn Walker, Reza Ghanadan
We project these features to the dialogue level and train a dialogue-level MLP regression model, a dialogue-level LSTM, and a novel causal inference model called counterfactual-LSTM (CF-LSTM) to predict ratings.
no code implementations • CVPR 2023 • Da Yin, Feng Gao, Govind Thattai, Michael Johnston, Kai-Wei Chang
A key goal for the advancement of AI is to develop technologies that serve the needs not just of one group but of all communities regardless of their geographical region.
no code implementations • 13 Sep 2022 • Anna Gottardi, Osman Ipek, Giuseppe Castellucci, Shui Hu, Lavina Vaz, Yao Lu, Anju Khatri, Anjali Chadha, Desheng Zhang, Sattvik Sahai, Prerna Dwivedi, Hangjie Shi, Lucy Hu, Andy Huang, Luke Dai, Bofei Yang, Varun Somani, Pankaj Rajan, Ron Rezac, Michael Johnston, Savanna Stiff, Leslie Ball, David Carmel, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Oleg Rokhlenko, Kate Bland, Eugene Agichtein, Reza Ghanadan, Yoelle Maarek
Since its inception in 2016, the Alexa Prize program has enabled hundreds of university students to explore and compete to develop conversational agents through the SocialBot Grand Challenge.
no code implementations • 18 Apr 2021 • Minhua Chen, Badrinath Jayakumar, Padmasundari Gopalakrishnan, Qiming Huang, Michael Johnston, Patrick Haffner
For example, deep embedded clustering (DEC) has greatly improved the unsupervised clustering performance, by using stacked autoencoders for representation learning.
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