Research Projects

A Taxonomy for Positive Friction

Better Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems

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Mert Inan
Anthony Sicilia
Suvodip Dey
Vardhan Dongre
Tejas Srinivasan
Jesse Thomason
Gokhan Tur
Dilek Hakkani-Tür
Malihe Alikhani

Accountability Modeling

Towards Preventing Overreliance on Task-Oriented Conversational AI Through Accountability Modeling

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Suvodip Dey
Gokhan Tur
Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Sycophancy in Language Model

Accounting for Sycophancy in Language Model Uncertainty Estimation

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Anthony Sicilia
Mert Inan
Malihe Alikhani

ReSpAct Harmonizing Reasoning, Speaking, and Acting

ReSpAct: Harmonizing Reasoning, Speaking, and Acting Towards Building Large Language Model-Based Conversational AI Agents

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Vardhan Dongre
Suvodip Dey
Gokhan Tur
Dilek Hakkani-Tür

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