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20242026
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40 papers

cs.CL2026

Automated Discovery Has No Universally Superior Harness

Akshat Gupta, Jermaine Lei, Alexander Lu +2

Autonomous discovery systems such as OpenEvolve and TTT-Discover are often used as general-purpose harnesses. However, in practice these are composite systems combining several des…

eess.AS2026

Speech World Model: Causal State-Action Planning with Explicit Reasoning for Speech

Xuanru Zhou, Jiachen Lian, Henry Hong +2

Current speech-language models (SLMs) typically use a cascade of speech encoder and large language model, treating speech understanding as a single black box. They analyze the cont…

cs.CV2026

Benchmarking Single-Factor Physical Video-to-Audio Generation

Tingle Li, Siddharth Gururani, Kevin J. Shih +6

Generative video-to-audio (V2A) models produce highly plausible soundtracks, but it remains unclear whether they capture the underlying physical processes. Existing evaluations emp…

cs.CL2026

S-MARC: Causal Streaming Reasoning for Full-Duplex Conversational Behavior Modeling

Dingkun Zhou, Shuchang Pan, Jiachen Lian +11

Human conversation is organized by an implicit chain of thought and manifests as temporally structured conversational behaviors. Capturing this perceptual pathway is critical for b…

cs.MM2026

AV-EMO-Reasoning: Benchmarking Emotional Reasoning Capabilities in Omni-modal LLMS with Audio-visual Cues

Dingkun Zhou, Krish Patel, Ajay Kankipati +14

Emotions conveyed through voice and face shape engagement and context in human AI interaction. Despite rapid progress in omni modal large language models, the holistic evaluation o…

eess.AS2026

HASS: Hierarchical Simulation of Logopenic Aphasic Speech for Scalable PPA Detection

Harrison Li, Kevin Wang, Cheol Jun Cho +13

Building a diagnosis model for primary progressive aphasia (PPA) has been challenging due to the data scarcity. Collecting clinical data at scale is limited by the high vulnerabili…