Reasoning LLMs for User-Aware Multimodal Conversational Agents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01700v1
• Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:00:17 GMT
• Title: Reasoning LLMs for User-Aware Multimodal Conversational Agents
• Authors: Hamed Rahimi, Jeanne Cattoni, Meriem Beghili, Mouad Abrini, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Maribel Pino, Mohamed Chetouani,
• Abstract summary: Personalization in social robotics is critical for fostering effective human-robot interactions.<n>This paper proposes a novel framework called USER-LLM R1 for a user-aware conversational agent.<n>Our approach integrates chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning models to iteratively infer user preferences and vision-language models.
• Score: 3.533721662684487
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Personalization in social robotics is critical for fostering effective human-robot interactions, yet systems often face the cold start problem, where initial user preferences or characteristics are unavailable. This paper proposes a novel framework called USER-LLM R1 for a user-aware conversational agent that addresses this challenge through dynamic user profiling and model initiation. Our approach integrates chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning models to iteratively infer user preferences and vision-language models (VLMs) to initialize user profiles from multimodal inputs, enabling personalized interactions from the first encounter. Leveraging a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture, the system dynamically refines user representations within an inherent CoT process, ensuring contextually relevant and adaptive responses. Evaluations on the ElderlyTech-VQA Bench demonstrate significant improvements in ROUGE-1 (+23.2%), ROUGE-2 (+0.6%), and ROUGE-L (+8%) F1 scores over state-of-the-art baselines, with ablation studies underscoring the impact of reasoning model size on performance. Human evaluations further validate the framework's efficacy, particularly for elderly users, where tailored responses enhance engagement and trust. Ethical considerations, including privacy preservation and bias mitigation, are rigorously discussed and addressed to ensure responsible deployment.

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