ConvAI @ UIUC
@convai-uiuc.bsky.social
Conversational AI | NLP | Headed by Dr. Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Dr. Gokhan Tur | UIUC | IllinoisCDS
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ConvAI @ UIUC
@convai-uiuc.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Welcome to the official page of ConvAI@UIUC! 🤖 Based in the cornfields of UIUC, and led by Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Gokhan Tur, we do cool research on chatbots, dialogue, embodied agents, and everything in between!
ConvAI had a great NeurIPS season with four accepted papers to the main conference🎉 Find all the authors in San Diego this December ☀️
September 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
ConvAI had a great NeurIPS season with four accepted papers to the main conference🎉 Find all the authors in San Diego this December ☀️
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[5/5] Persuasion research is still playing catch-up, promising great advancements!✨
Thank you to my amazing co-authors! @shuhaib.bsky.social @xiaocheng-yang.bsky.social @HyeonjeongHa @ziruicheng.bsky.social @EsinDurmus @JiaxuanYou @HengJi @gokhantur.bsky.social @dilekh.bsky.social
Thank you to my amazing co-authors! @shuhaib.bsky.social @xiaocheng-yang.bsky.social @HyeonjeongHa @ziruicheng.bsky.social @EsinDurmus @JiaxuanYou @HengJi @gokhantur.bsky.social @dilekh.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
[5/5] Persuasion research is still playing catch-up, promising great advancements!✨
Thank you to my amazing co-authors! @shuhaib.bsky.social @xiaocheng-yang.bsky.social @HyeonjeongHa @ziruicheng.bsky.social @EsinDurmus @JiaxuanYou @HengJi @gokhantur.bsky.social @dilekh.bsky.social
Thank you to my amazing co-authors! @shuhaib.bsky.social @xiaocheng-yang.bsky.social @HyeonjeongHa @ziruicheng.bsky.social @EsinDurmus @JiaxuanYou @HengJi @gokhantur.bsky.social @dilekh.bsky.social
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Thrilled to announce our new survey that explores the exciting possibilities and troubling risks of computational persuasion in the era of LLMs 🤖💬
📄Arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.07775
💻 GitHub: github.com/beyzabozdag/...
📄Arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.07775
💻 GitHub: github.com/beyzabozdag/...
May 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Thrilled to announce our new survey that explores the exciting possibilities and troubling risks of computational persuasion in the era of LLMs 🤖💬
📄Arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.07775
💻 GitHub: github.com/beyzabozdag/...
📄Arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.07775
💻 GitHub: github.com/beyzabozdag/...
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📂 Code and data coming soon! Read our paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.02362
This would not have been possible without the contributions of @abhinav-chinta.bsky.social @takyoung.bsky.social Tarun and our amazing advisor @dilekh.bsky.social Special thanks to the members of @convai-uiuc.bsky.social
This would not have been possible without the contributions of @abhinav-chinta.bsky.social @takyoung.bsky.social Tarun and our amazing advisor @dilekh.bsky.social Special thanks to the members of @convai-uiuc.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
📂 Code and data coming soon! Read our paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.02362
This would not have been possible without the contributions of @abhinav-chinta.bsky.social @takyoung.bsky.social Tarun and our amazing advisor @dilekh.bsky.social Special thanks to the members of @convai-uiuc.bsky.social
This would not have been possible without the contributions of @abhinav-chinta.bsky.social @takyoung.bsky.social Tarun and our amazing advisor @dilekh.bsky.social Special thanks to the members of @convai-uiuc.bsky.social
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🚀Our ICML 2025 paper introduces "Premise-Augmented Reasoning Chains" - a structured approach to induce explicit dependencies in reasoning chains.
By revealing the dependencies within chains, we significantly improve how LLM reasoning can be verified.
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By revealing the dependencies within chains, we significantly improve how LLM reasoning can be verified.
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May 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🚀Our ICML 2025 paper introduces "Premise-Augmented Reasoning Chains" - a structured approach to induce explicit dependencies in reasoning chains.
By revealing the dependencies within chains, we significantly improve how LLM reasoning can be verified.
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By revealing the dependencies within chains, we significantly improve how LLM reasoning can be verified.
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While persuasive models are promising for social good, they can also be misused towards harmful behavior. Recent work by @beyzabozdag.bsky.social and @shuhaib.bsky.social aims to assess LLM persuasiveness and susceptibility towards persuasion.
[1/6] Can LLMs out-persuade each other? 🤖🧠💬
Introducing Persuade Me If You Can (PMIYC)—a new framework to evaluate (1) how persuasive LLMs are and (2) how easily they can be persuaded! 🚀
📄Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.01829
🌐Project Page: beyzabozdag.github.io/PMIYC/
Introducing Persuade Me If You Can (PMIYC)—a new framework to evaluate (1) how persuasive LLMs are and (2) how easily they can be persuaded! 🚀
📄Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.01829
🌐Project Page: beyzabozdag.github.io/PMIYC/
March 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM
While persuasive models are promising for social good, they can also be misused towards harmful behavior. Recent work by @beyzabozdag.bsky.social and @shuhaib.bsky.social aims to assess LLM persuasiveness and susceptibility towards persuasion.
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New Blog Alert: The Future of Human-Robot Conversation! We explore the evolution of embodied conversational agents beyond simple command followers. How will robots develop theory of mind, natural turn-taking, and truly understand human intentions? 🤖💬 #EmbodiedAI #HRI (1/2)
March 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
New Blog Alert: The Future of Human-Robot Conversation! We explore the evolution of embodied conversational agents beyond simple command followers. How will robots develop theory of mind, natural turn-taking, and truly understand human intentions? 🤖💬 #EmbodiedAI #HRI (1/2)
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[1/6] Can LLMs out-persuade each other? 🤖🧠💬
Introducing Persuade Me If You Can (PMIYC)—a new framework to evaluate (1) how persuasive LLMs are and (2) how easily they can be persuaded! 🚀
📄Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.01829
🌐Project Page: beyzabozdag.github.io/PMIYC/
Introducing Persuade Me If You Can (PMIYC)—a new framework to evaluate (1) how persuasive LLMs are and (2) how easily they can be persuaded! 🚀
📄Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.01829
🌐Project Page: beyzabozdag.github.io/PMIYC/
March 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
[1/6] Can LLMs out-persuade each other? 🤖🧠💬
Introducing Persuade Me If You Can (PMIYC)—a new framework to evaluate (1) how persuasive LLMs are and (2) how easily they can be persuaded! 🚀
📄Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.01829
🌐Project Page: beyzabozdag.github.io/PMIYC/
Introducing Persuade Me If You Can (PMIYC)—a new framework to evaluate (1) how persuasive LLMs are and (2) how easily they can be persuaded! 🚀
📄Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.01829
🌐Project Page: beyzabozdag.github.io/PMIYC/
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🚀Very excited about my new paper!
NN-CIFT slashes data valuation costs by 99% using tiny neural nets (205k params, just 0.0027% of 8B LLMs) while maintaining top-tier performance!
NN-CIFT slashes data valuation costs by 99% using tiny neural nets (205k params, just 0.0027% of 8B LLMs) while maintaining top-tier performance!
February 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
🚀Very excited about my new paper!
NN-CIFT slashes data valuation costs by 99% using tiny neural nets (205k params, just 0.0027% of 8B LLMs) while maintaining top-tier performance!
NN-CIFT slashes data valuation costs by 99% using tiny neural nets (205k params, just 0.0027% of 8B LLMs) while maintaining top-tier performance!
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CALM is a result of a collaboration between @convai-uiuc.bsky.social and #Oumi.
Special thanks for the great team work, it would not be possible without Jeremiah Greer, Akul Datta, Ze Yang, William Zeng, Oussama Elachqar, Manos Koukoumidis, @dilekh.bsky.social, and @gokhantur.bsky.social.
Special thanks for the great team work, it would not be possible without Jeremiah Greer, Akul Datta, Ze Yang, William Zeng, Oussama Elachqar, Manos Koukoumidis, @dilekh.bsky.social, and @gokhantur.bsky.social.
February 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
CALM is a result of a collaboration between @convai-uiuc.bsky.social and #Oumi.
Special thanks for the great team work, it would not be possible without Jeremiah Greer, Akul Datta, Ze Yang, William Zeng, Oussama Elachqar, Manos Koukoumidis, @dilekh.bsky.social, and @gokhantur.bsky.social.
Special thanks for the great team work, it would not be possible without Jeremiah Greer, Akul Datta, Ze Yang, William Zeng, Oussama Elachqar, Manos Koukoumidis, @dilekh.bsky.social, and @gokhantur.bsky.social.
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The secret sauce for this work is the ReAct style training data preparation: “User-Thought1-Action/API-Observation-Thought2-Response”. We transformed public dialogue datasets into this format for training. Congratulations to @emrecanacikgoz and the @convai_uiuc and Oumi teams!
🚀Can a Single Model Master Both Multi-turn Conversations and Tool Use?
Introducing CALM, fully open-source Conversational Agentic Language Models with CALM 8B, CALM 70B, and CALM 405B-excelling in both multi-turn dialogue management & function calling.
🌐Project Page: emrecanacikgoz.github.io/CALM/
Introducing CALM, fully open-source Conversational Agentic Language Models with CALM 8B, CALM 70B, and CALM 405B-excelling in both multi-turn dialogue management & function calling.
🌐Project Page: emrecanacikgoz.github.io/CALM/
February 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The secret sauce for this work is the ReAct style training data preparation: “User-Thought1-Action/API-Observation-Thought2-Response”. We transformed public dialogue datasets into this format for training. Congratulations to @emrecanacikgoz and the @convai_uiuc and Oumi teams!
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🚀Can a Single Model Master Both Multi-turn Conversations and Tool Use?
Introducing CALM, fully open-source Conversational Agentic Language Models with CALM 8B, CALM 70B, and CALM 405B-excelling in both multi-turn dialogue management & function calling.
🌐Project Page: emrecanacikgoz.github.io/CALM/
Introducing CALM, fully open-source Conversational Agentic Language Models with CALM 8B, CALM 70B, and CALM 405B-excelling in both multi-turn dialogue management & function calling.
🌐Project Page: emrecanacikgoz.github.io/CALM/
February 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🚀Can a Single Model Master Both Multi-turn Conversations and Tool Use?
Introducing CALM, fully open-source Conversational Agentic Language Models with CALM 8B, CALM 70B, and CALM 405B-excelling in both multi-turn dialogue management & function calling.
🌐Project Page: emrecanacikgoz.github.io/CALM/
Introducing CALM, fully open-source Conversational Agentic Language Models with CALM 8B, CALM 70B, and CALM 405B-excelling in both multi-turn dialogue management & function calling.
🌐Project Page: emrecanacikgoz.github.io/CALM/
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Introducing positive friction in goal-oriented dialogues boosts task success and efficiency! 🎯By strategically slowing down to ask, reveal, or pause, agents improve their understanding of user goals—leading to more efficient, aligned interactions. Read more below:
‼️ Ever wish LLMs would just... slow down for a second?
In our latest work, "Better Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems", we delve into how strategic delays can enhance dialogue systems.
Paper Website: merterm.github.io/positive-fri...
In our latest work, "Better Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems", we delve into how strategic delays can enhance dialogue systems.
Paper Website: merterm.github.io/positive-fri...
February 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Introducing positive friction in goal-oriented dialogues boosts task success and efficiency! 🎯By strategically slowing down to ask, reveal, or pause, agents improve their understanding of user goals—leading to more efficient, aligned interactions. Read more below:
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💡 Introducing Reference-Level Feedback: A new paradigm for using feedback to improve synthetic data!
🌐 shuhaibm.github.io/refed/
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🌐 shuhaibm.github.io/refed/
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February 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
💡 Introducing Reference-Level Feedback: A new paradigm for using feedback to improve synthetic data!
🌐 shuhaibm.github.io/refed/
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🌐 shuhaibm.github.io/refed/
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AI over-reliance is an important issue for conversational agents. Our work supported mainly by the DARPA FACT program proposes introducing positive friction to encourage users to think critically when making decisions. Great team-work, all!
@convai-uiuc.bsky.social @gokhantur.bsky.social
@convai-uiuc.bsky.social @gokhantur.bsky.social
‼️ Ever wish LLMs would just... slow down for a second?
In our latest work, "Better Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems", we delve into how strategic delays can enhance dialogue systems.
Paper Website: merterm.github.io/positive-fri...
In our latest work, "Better Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems", we delve into how strategic delays can enhance dialogue systems.
Paper Website: merterm.github.io/positive-fri...
February 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
AI over-reliance is an important issue for conversational agents. Our work supported mainly by the DARPA FACT program proposes introducing positive friction to encourage users to think critically when making decisions. Great team-work, all!
@convai-uiuc.bsky.social @gokhantur.bsky.social
@convai-uiuc.bsky.social @gokhantur.bsky.social
Reposted by ConvAI @ UIUC
‼️ Ever wish LLMs would just... slow down for a second?
In our latest work, "Better Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems", we delve into how strategic delays can enhance dialogue systems.
Paper Website: merterm.github.io/positive-fri...
In our latest work, "Better Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems", we delve into how strategic delays can enhance dialogue systems.
Paper Website: merterm.github.io/positive-fri...
February 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
‼️ Ever wish LLMs would just... slow down for a second?
In our latest work, "Better Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems", we delve into how strategic delays can enhance dialogue systems.
Paper Website: merterm.github.io/positive-fri...
In our latest work, "Better Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems", we delve into how strategic delays can enhance dialogue systems.
Paper Website: merterm.github.io/positive-fri...
Do Chatbots just need more time to think? Read about Dr. @dilekh.bsky.social's thoughts here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-c...
Chatbots Can Be Inaccurate. Do They Just Need More Time to ‘Think’?
A technique called “test-time compute” can improve how AI responds to some hard questions, but it comes at a cost
www.scientificamerican.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Do Chatbots just need more time to think? Read about Dr. @dilekh.bsky.social's thoughts here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-c...
Congratulations to @dilekh.bsky.social for her ACL Fellowship! 🎉🎉🎉 www.aclweb.org/portal/conte...
ACL Fellows 2024 | ACL Member Portal
www.aclweb.org
December 11, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Congratulations to @dilekh.bsky.social for her ACL Fellowship! 🎉🎉🎉 www.aclweb.org/portal/conte...
Visit our webpage to learn more: uiuc-conversational-ai-lab.github.io
November 17, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Visit our webpage to learn more: uiuc-conversational-ai-lab.github.io
We had so much fun at #EMNLP2024 during the poster sessions and in Miami 🎉🎉 Evidence of fun (excursion to the south beach! 🏖️):
November 17, 2024 at 7:36 PM
We had so much fun at #EMNLP2024 during the poster sessions and in Miami 🎉🎉 Evidence of fun (excursion to the south beach! 🏖️):
Welcome to the official page of ConvAI@UIUC! 🤖 Based in the cornfields of UIUC, and led by Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Gokhan Tur, we do cool research on chatbots, dialogue, embodied agents, and everything in between!
November 17, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Welcome to the official page of ConvAI@UIUC! 🤖 Based in the cornfields of UIUC, and led by Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Gokhan Tur, we do cool research on chatbots, dialogue, embodied agents, and everything in between!