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ConvAI @ UIUC @convai-uiuc.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

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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Beyza Bozdag @beyzabozdag.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

[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

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Beyza Bozdag @beyzabozdag.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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/...

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Sagnik Mukherjee @sagnikmukherjee.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

📂 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

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Sagnik Mukherjee @sagnikmukherjee.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🚀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. 🧵[1/n]

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Dilek Hakkani-Tur @dilekh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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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Vardhan Dongre @ NeurIPS 2025 @vardhandongre.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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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Beyza Bozdag @beyzabozdag.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

[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/

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Ishika Agarwal @wonderingishika.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

🚀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!

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Emre Can Acikgoz @emrecanacikgoz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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.

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Gokhan Tur @gokhantur.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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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Emre Can Acikgoz @emrecanacikgoz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

🚀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/

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Vardhan Dongre @ NeurIPS 2025 @vardhandongre.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

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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Shuhaib Mehri @shuhaib.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

💡 Introducing Reference-Level Feedback: A new paradigm for using feedback to improve synthetic data! 🌐 shuhaibm.github.io/refed/ 🧵 [1/n]

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Dilek Hakkani-Tur @dilekh.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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

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Mert İnan @merterm.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

‼️ 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...

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ConvAI @ UIUC @convai-uiuc.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Congratulations to @dilekh.bsky.social for her ACL Fellowship! 🎉🎉🎉 www.aclweb.org/portal/conte...

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ConvAI @ UIUC @convai-uiuc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

We had so much fun at #EMNLP2024 during the poster sessions and in Miami 🎉🎉 Evidence of fun (excursion to the south beach! 🏖️):

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ConvAI @ UIUC @convai-uiuc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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!

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