no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2022 • Liang Qiu, Yizhou Zhao, Yuan Liang, Pan Lu, Weiyan Shi, Zhou Yu, Song-Chun Zhu
One of which is to track the agent’s mental state transition and teach the agent to make decisions guided by its value like a human.
no code implementations • 31 Dec 2024 • Xingyu Bruce Liu, Shitao Fang, Weiyan Shi, Chien-Sheng Wu, Takeo Igarashi, Xiang `Anthony' Chen
Our framework equips AI with a continuous, covert train of thoughts in parallel to the overt communication process, which enables it to proactively engage by modeling its intrinsic motivation to express these thoughts.
1 code implementation • 21 Nov 2024 • Michael Lu, Hyundong Justin Cho, Weiyan Shi, Jonathan May, Alexander Spangher
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating coherent text but often struggle with grounding language and strategic dialogue.
no code implementations • 3 Oct 2024 • William Held, Ella Li, Michael Ryan, Weiyan Shi, Yanzhe Zhang, Diyi Yang
We show that our Distilled Voice Assistant (DiVA) generalizes to Spoken Question Answering, Classification, and Translation.
no code implementations • 21 Sep 2024 • Zhenhong Zhang, Jiajing Chen, Weiyan Shi, Lingjie Yi, Chihang Wang, Qian Yu
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, especially the increasingly widespread application of question-and-answer systems, high-quality question generation has become a key component in supporting the development of these systems.
no code implementations • 18 Sep 2024 • Weiyan Shi, Haihong Zhang, Jin Yang, Ruiqing Ding, YongWei Zhu, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo
Additionally, these predictive machine learning models achieved state-of-the-art prediction performance ($81\%$ AUC) in the field of automatically constructed gaze point features for ASD diagnosis.
1 code implementation • 29 Aug 2024 • Yijia Shao, Tianshi Li, Weiyan Shi, Yanchen Liu, Diyi Yang
However, quantifying the privacy norm awareness of LMs and the emerging privacy risk in LM-mediated communication is challenging due to (1) the contextual and long-tailed nature of privacy-sensitive cases, and (2) the lack of evaluation approaches that capture realistic application scenarios.
no code implementations • 4 Jul 2024 • Kazuaki Furumai, Roberto Legaspi, Julio Vizcarra, Yudai Yamazaki, Yasutaka Nishimura, Sina J. Semnani, Kazushi Ikeda, Weiyan Shi, Monica S. Lam
Persuasion plays a pivotal role in a wide range of applications from health intervention to the promotion of social good.
3 code implementations • 23 Apr 2024 • Weiyan Shi, Ryan Li, Yutong Zhang, Caleb Ziems, Chunhua yu, Raya Horesh, Rogério Abreu de Paula, Diyi Yang
To enhance language models' cultural awareness, we design a generalizable pipeline to construct cultural knowledge bases from different online communities on a massive scale.
no code implementations • 7 Mar 2024 • Shayne Longpre, Sayash Kapoor, Kevin Klyman, Ashwin Ramaswami, Rishi Bommasani, Borhane Blili-Hamelin, Yangsibo Huang, Aviya Skowron, Zheng-Xin Yong, Suhas Kotha, Yi Zeng, Weiyan Shi, Xianjun Yang, Reid Southen, Alexander Robey, Patrick Chao, Diyi Yang, Ruoxi Jia, Daniel Kang, Sandy Pentland, Arvind Narayanan, Percy Liang, Peter Henderson
Independent evaluation and red teaming are critical for identifying the risks posed by generative AI systems.
no code implementations • 28 Feb 2024 • Minzhi Li, Weiyan Shi, Caleb Ziems, Diyi Yang
As Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems become increasingly integrated into human social life, these technologies will need to increasingly rely on social intelligence.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2024 • Myeongseob Ko, Feiyang Kang, Weiyan Shi, Ming Jin, Zhou Yu, Ruoxi Jia
Inspired by this, we introduce a new method for estimating the influence of training data, which requires calculating gradients for specific test samples, paired with a forward pass for each training point.
2 code implementations • 12 Jan 2024 • Yi Zeng, Hongpeng Lin, Jingwen Zhang, Diyi Yang, Ruoxi Jia, Weiyan Shi
This paper introduces a new perspective to jailbreak LLMs as human-like communicators, to explore this overlooked intersection between everyday language interaction and AI safety.
no code implementations • 14 Dec 2023 • Rongwu Xu, Brian S. Lin, Shujian Yang, Tianqi Zhang, Weiyan Shi, Tianwei Zhang, Zhixuan Fang, Wei Xu, Han Qiu
Therefore, in this study, we delve into LLMs' susceptibility to persuasive conversations, particularly on factual questions that they can answer correctly.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2023 • Yanchen Liu, Mingyu Derek Ma, Wenna Qin, Azure Zhou, Jiaao Chen, Weiyan Shi, Wei Wang, Diyi Yang
Using COVID-19 as a testbed domain, our experiments demonstrate a significant alignment between the susceptibility scores estimated by our computational modeling and human judgments, confirming the effectiveness of this latent modeling approach.
1 code implementation • 6 May 2023 • Maximillian Chen, Xiao Yu, Weiyan Shi, Urvi Awasthi, Zhou Yu
The standard approach has been fine-tuning pre-trained language models to perform generation conditioned on these intents.
no code implementations • 22 Nov 2022 • Weiyan Shi, Emily Dinan, Adi Renduchintala, Daniel Fried, Athul Paul Jacob, Zhou Yu, Mike Lewis
Existing approaches built separate classifiers to detect nonsense in dialogues.
1 code implementation • Science 2022 • Anton Bakhtin, Noam Brown, Emily Dinan, Gabriele Farina, Colin Flaherty, Daniel Fried, Andrew Goff, Jonathan Gray, Hengyan Hu, Athul Paul Jacob, Mojtaba Komeili, Karthik Konath, Minae Kwon, Adam Lerer, Mike Lewis, Alexander H. Miller, Sash Mitts, Aditya Renduchintala, Stephen Roller, Dirk Rowe, Weiyan Shi, Joe Spisak, Alexander Wei, David Wu, Hugh Zhang, Markus Zijlstra
Despite much progress in training AI systems to imitate human language, building agents that use language to communicate intentionally with humans in interactive environments remains a major challenge.
no code implementations • 28 Oct 2022 • Weiyan Shi, Emily Dinan, Kurt Shuster, Jason Weston, Jing Xu
Deployed dialogue agents have the potential to integrate human feedback to continuously improve themselves.
no code implementations • 11 Oct 2022 • Kushal Chawla, Weiyan Shi, Jingwen Zhang, Gale Lucas, Zhou Yu, Jonathan Gratch
Dialogue systems capable of social influence such as persuasion, negotiation, and therapy, are essential for extending the use of technology to numerous realistic scenarios.
1 code implementation • 15 Apr 2022 • Weiyan Shi, Ryan Shea, Si Chen, Chiyuan Zhang, Ruoxi Jia, Zhou Yu
Utilizing the fact that sensitive information in language data tends to be sparse, Shi et al. (2021) formalized a DP notion extension called Selective Differential Privacy (SDP) to protect only the sensitive tokens defined by a policy function.
no code implementations • 15 Mar 2022 • Maximillian Chen, Weiyan Shi, Feifan Yan, Ryan Hou, Jingwen Zhang, Saurav Sahay, Zhou Yu
Complex conversation settings such as persuasion involve communicating changes in attitude or behavior, so users' perspectives need to be addressed, even when not directly related to the topic.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2022 • Weiyan Shi, Aiqi Cui, Evan Li, Ruoxi Jia, Zhou Yu
Given that the private information in natural language is sparse (for example, the bulk of an email might not carry personally identifiable information), we propose a new privacy notion, selective differential privacy, to provide rigorous privacy guarantees on the sensitive portion of the data to improve model utility.
no code implementations • ACL 2021 • Jing Gu, Qingyang Wu, Chongruo wu, Weiyan Shi, Zhou Yu
However, the performance of pre-trained models on task-oriented dialog tasks is still under-explored.
no code implementations • 3 Jun 2021 • Kai-Hui Liang, Weiyan Shi, Yoojung Oh, Hao-Chuan Wang, Jingwen Zhang, Zhou Yu
Using chatbots to deliver recommendations is increasingly popular.
1 code implementation • ACL 2021 • Yu Li, Josh Arnold, Feifan Yan, Weiyan Shi, Zhou Yu
We present LEGOEval, an open-source toolkit that enables researchers to easily evaluate dialogue systems in a few lines of code using the online crowdsource platform, Amazon Mechanical Turk.
no code implementations • 16 Apr 2021 • Yu Li, Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Weiyan Shi, Zhou Yu
It is important for sociable recommendation dialog systems to perform as both on-task content and social content to engage users and gain their favor.
no code implementations • 12 Mar 2021 • Liang Qiu, Yizhou Zhao, Yuan Liang, Pan Lu, Weiyan Shi, Zhou Yu, Song-Chun Zhu
One of which is to track the agent's mental state transition and teach the agent to make decisions guided by its value like a human.
no code implementations • 1 Jan 2021 • Weiyan Shi, Yu Li, Saurav Sahay, Zhou Yu
Despite the recent success of large-scale language models on various downstream NLP tasks, the repetition and inconsistency problems still persist in dialogue response generation.
no code implementations • Findings (EMNLP) 2021 • Weiyan Shi, Yu Li, Saurav Sahay, Zhou Yu
Persuasion dialogue systems reflect the machine's ability to make strategic moves beyond verbal communication, and therefore differentiate themselves from task-oriented or open-domain dialogue systems and have their own unique values.
no code implementations • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Youzhi Tian, Weiyan Shi, Chen Li, Zhou Yu
Furthermore, we analyze the relationships between persuasion strategies and persuasion resistance strategies.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2020 • Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Dongyeop Kang, Qingxiaoyang Zhu, Weiyan Shi, Zhou Yu
To better understand how humans make recommendations in communication, we design an annotation scheme related to recommendation strategies based on social science theories and annotate these dialogs.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2020 • Liang Qiu, Yizhou Zhao, Weiyan Shi, Yuan Liang, Feng Shi, Tao Yuan, Zhou Yu, Song-Chun Zhu
Inducing a meaningful structural representation from one or a set of dialogues is a crucial but challenging task in computational linguistics.
1 code implementation • 24 Apr 2020 • Jing Gu, Qingyang Wu, Chongruo wu, Weiyan Shi, Zhou Yu
The recent success of large pre-trained language models such as BERT and GPT-2 has suggested the effectiveness of incorporating language priors in downstream dialog generation tasks.
1 code implementation • 25 Nov 2019 • Yu Li, Kun Qian, Weiyan Shi, Zhou Yu
End-to-end task-oriented dialog models have achieved promising performance on collaborative tasks where users willingly coordinate with the system to complete a given task.
1 code implementation • IJCNLP 2019 • Weiyan Shi, Kun Qian, Xuewei Wang, Zhou Yu
We propose a method of standardizing user simulator building that can be used by the community to compare dialog system quality using the same set of user simulators fairly.
3 code implementations • ACL 2019 • Xuewei Wang, Weiyan Shi, Richard Kim, Yoojung Oh, Sijia Yang, Jingwen Zhang, Zhou Yu
Developing intelligent persuasive conversational agents to change people's opinions and actions for social good is the frontier in advancing the ethical development of automated dialogue systems.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2019 • Weiyan Shi, Tiancheng Zhao, Zhou Yu
The learned dialog structure can shed light on how to analyze human dialogs, and more importantly contribute to the design and evaluation of dialog systems.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Jilei Wang, Shiying Luo, Weiyan Shi, Tao Dai, Shu-Tao Xia
Learning vector space representation of words (i. e., word embeddings) has recently attracted wide research interests, and has been extended to cross-lingual scenario.
no code implementations • ACL 2018 • Weiyan Shi, Zhou Yu
End-to-end learning framework is useful for building dialog systems for its simplicity in training and efficiency in model updating.