ProACT: Towards Breakdown-Aware Proactive Agent in Multi-User Collaboration
Conversational agents are increasingly embedded in human collaborative work, yet they remain fundamentally passive and reactive: they respond to explicit user requests rather than proactively recognizing moments when a team would benefit from timely intervention as human collaborators often do. This reactive design substantially limits the use of agents as active participants in multi-user collaboration, where disagreements, ambiguous goals, forgotten constraints, underspecified plans, discussion loops, and imbalanced participation can gradually undermine group progress. To move agents from passive assistants toward active participants in multi-user collaboration, we introduce ProACT, a b...
| Authors | Shu Yang, Difei Xu, Jiaxin Pei et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 4 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 4 July 2026 |
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