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Auteurs principaux: Toles, Matthew, Balwani, Nikhil, Singh, Rattandeep, Rodriguez, Valentina Giulia Sartori, Yu, Zhou
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Publié: 2025
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19610
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author Toles, Matthew
Balwani, Nikhil
Singh, Rattandeep
Rodriguez, Valentina Giulia Sartori
Yu, Zhou
author_facet Toles, Matthew
Balwani, Nikhil
Singh, Rattandeep
Rodriguez, Valentina Giulia Sartori
Yu, Zhou
contents Many real-world eligibility problems, ranging from medical diagnosis to tax planning, can be mapped to decision problems expressed in natural language, wherein a model must make a binary choice based on user features. Large-scale domains such as legal codes or frequently updated funding opportunities render human annotation (e.g., web forms or decision trees) impractical, highlighting the need for agents that can automatically assist in decision-making. Since relevant information is often only known to the user, it is crucial that these agents ask the right questions. As agents determine when to terminate a conversation, they face a trade-off between accuracy and the number of questions asked, a key metric for both user experience and cost. To evaluate this task, we propose BeNYfits, a new benchmark for determining user eligibility for multiple overlapping social benefits opportunities through interactive decision-making. Our experiments show that current language models struggle with frequent hallucinations, with GPT-4o scoring only 35.7 F1 using a ReAct-style chain-of-thought. To address this, we introduce ProADA, a novel approach that leverages program synthesis to assist in decision-making by mapping dialog planning to a code generation problem and using gaps in structured data to determine the best next action. Our agent, ProADA, improves the F1 score to 55.6 while maintaining nearly the same number of dialog turns.
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spellingShingle Program Synthesis Dialog Agents for Interactive Decision-Making
Toles, Matthew
Balwani, Nikhil
Singh, Rattandeep
Rodriguez, Valentina Giulia Sartori
Yu, Zhou
Artificial Intelligence
Many real-world eligibility problems, ranging from medical diagnosis to tax planning, can be mapped to decision problems expressed in natural language, wherein a model must make a binary choice based on user features. Large-scale domains such as legal codes or frequently updated funding opportunities render human annotation (e.g., web forms or decision trees) impractical, highlighting the need for agents that can automatically assist in decision-making. Since relevant information is often only known to the user, it is crucial that these agents ask the right questions. As agents determine when to terminate a conversation, they face a trade-off between accuracy and the number of questions asked, a key metric for both user experience and cost. To evaluate this task, we propose BeNYfits, a new benchmark for determining user eligibility for multiple overlapping social benefits opportunities through interactive decision-making. Our experiments show that current language models struggle with frequent hallucinations, with GPT-4o scoring only 35.7 F1 using a ReAct-style chain-of-thought. To address this, we introduce ProADA, a novel approach that leverages program synthesis to assist in decision-making by mapping dialog planning to a code generation problem and using gaps in structured data to determine the best next action. Our agent, ProADA, improves the F1 score to 55.6 while maintaining nearly the same number of dialog turns.
title Program Synthesis Dialog Agents for Interactive Decision-Making
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19610