7 papers
Do Implicit Personalization and Explicit Styles Conflict? PsPLUG: A Lightweight Plug-in for Balancing Personalization and Style in Customized LLMs
Yutong Song, Jiang Wu, Shaofan Yuan +5
Personalized large language models are often expected to follow explicit style instructions, yet we find that such instructions can undermine the user-specific characteristics that…
Can the Environment Speak for Itself? -GRPO: A Turn-Trajectory Group Relative Policy Optimization for Caregiver Agents
Yutong Song, Jiang Wu, Pengfei Zhang +4
Optimizing large language models (LLMs) for long-horizon caregiver agents requires balancing delayed task objectives with immediate environment dynamics, such as patient distress a…
MedSpeak: A Knowledge Graph-Aided ASR Error Correction Framework for Spoken Medical QA
Yutong Song, Shiva Shrestha, Chenhan Lyu +5
Spoken question-answering (SQA) systems relying on automatic speech recognition (ASR) often struggle with accurately recognizing medical terminology. To this end, we propose MedSpe…
CARD: Cluster-level Adaptation with Reward-guided Decoding for Personalized Text Generation
Yutong Song, Jiang Wu, Weijia Zhang +7
Adapting large language models to individual users remains challenging due to the tension between fine-grained personalization and scalable deployment. We present CARD, a hierarchi…
DementiaBank-Emotion: A Multi-Rater Emotion Annotation Corpus for Alzheimer's Disease Speech (Version 1.0)
Cheonkam Jeong, Jessica Liao, Audrey Lu +16
We present DementiaBank-Emotion, the first multi-rater emotion annotation corpus for Alzheimer's disease (AD) speech. Annotating 1,492 utterances from 108 speakers for Ekman's six…
DemMA: Dementia Multi-Turn Dialogue Agent with Expert-Guided Reasoning and Action Simulation
Yutong Song, Jiang Wu, Kazi Sharif +3
Simulating dementia patients with large language models (LLMs) is challenging due to the need to jointly model cognitive impairment, emotional dynamics, and nonverbal behaviors ove…