arXiv AI

PEER: Unified Process-Outcome Reinforcement Learning for Structured Empathetic Reasoning

arXiv:2508. 09521v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Emotional support conversations require more than fluent responses.

arXiv AI

Jul 24

EmoAgent-R1: Towards Multimodal Emotion Understanding with Reinforcement Learning-based Dynamic Agent Specialization

arXiv:2607. 21013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive performance in multimodal emotion recognition (MER) tasks and lifted MER to a new level that is complex emotion understanding with advanced video understanding abilities and natural language description.

By Lihuang Fang, Yuchen Zou, kebin Jin, Jinghui Qin

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arXiv AI

Jul 9

EMO-R3: Reflective Reinforcement Learning for Emotional Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2602. 23802v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable progress in visual reasoning and understanding tasks but still struggle to capture the complexity and subjectivity of human emotions.

By Yiyang Fang, Wenke Huang, Pei Fu, Yihao Yang, Kehua Su, Zhenbo Luo, Jian Luan, Mang Ye

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arXiv AI

Jun 11

ProcessThinker: Enhancing Multi-modal Large Language Models Reasoning via Rollout-based Process Reward

arXiv:2606. 11209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual question answering increasingly requires multi-step reasoning.

By Jingpei Wu, Xiao Han, Weixiang Shen, Boer Zhang, Zifeng Ding, Volker Tresp

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Hugging Face Trending Papers

Jun 8

One Model, Multiple Goals: Adaptive Multi-Objective Learning for E-commerce Dialogue Systems

Dialogue systems in e-commerce scenarios often need to satisfy multiple objectives: accurately reasoning over user profiles (e. g.

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arXiv AI

Jun 17

EmoFSM: A Finite State Machine for Emotional Support Conversation

arXiv:2504. 11837v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Emotional support conversation (ESC) aims to alleviate people's emotional distress through effective conversations.

By Yue Zhao, Qingqing Gu, Xiaoyu Wang, Teng Chen, Zhonglin Jiang, Yong Chen, Hongyan Li, Luo Ji

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arXiv AI

Jun 4

Aligning Deep Implicit Preferences by Learning to Reason Defensively

arXiv:2510. 11194v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personalized alignment is crucial for enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to engage effectively in user-centric interactions.

By Peiming Li, Zhiyuan Hu, Yang Tang, Shiyu Li, Xi Chen

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arXiv AI

Jul 3

HAL: Inducing Human-likeness in LLMs with Alignment

arXiv:2601. 02813v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Aligning language models to qualitative behavioral traits, such as human-likeness, remains difficult because they are hard to define, measure, and optimize.

By Masum Hasan, Junjie Zhao, Ehsan Hoque

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

STRIDE: Strategic Trajectory Reasoning via Discriminative Estimation for Verifiable Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 15866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become an effective post-training paradigm for improving the reasoning abilities of large language models.

By Qinjian Zhao, Zhihao Dou, Dinggen Zhang, Xiangyu Li, Chaoda Song, Zhongwei Wan, Xinpeng Li, Yanyan Zhang, Kaijie Chen, Qingtao Pan, Chengcheng Feng, Zhiqiang Gao, Xiaoyu Xia

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arXiv AI

Jul 21

From Evidence to Trajectory: Abductive Reasoning Path Synthesis for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Agents Development

arXiv:2509. 23071v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) agent development is hindered by the lack of executable ground-truth agent-environment interaction trajectories.

By Muzhi Li, Jinhu Qi, Yihong Wu, Minghao Zhao, Liheng Ma, Yifan Li, Xinyu Wang, Zhenghan Tai, Zixing Song, Yingxue Zhang, Ho-fung Leung, Irwin King

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arXiv AI

Jun 11

GrowLoop: Self-Evolving Conversation Evaluation Seeded by Human

arXiv:2605. 28882v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the rapid advancement of large language models, evaluating human-likeness in open-ended conversation has become increasingly important.

By Yihang Lin, Yunze Gao, Zeyang Lin, Dongbo Li, Kun Peng, Yue Liu

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arXiv AI

Jun 10

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

arXiv:2606. 09837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emotional interaction is increasingly crucial for conversational AI, yet current systems lack a self-emotion determination mechanism to drive the streaming text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis.

By Yue Zhao, Hongyan Li, Yong Chen, Luo Ji

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

StagePilot: Stage-Level Planning for Long-Horizon Dialogue Simulation in Cybergrooming

arXiv:2602. 05060v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cybergrooming is an evolving threat to youth, requiring proactive educational interventions.

By Heajun An, Qi Zhang, Minqian Liu, Xinyi Zhang, Sang Won Lee, Lifu Huang, Pamela J. Wisniewski, Jin-Hee Cho

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