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9 papers

eess.AS2026

Audio-Cogito: Towards Deep Audio Reasoning in Large Audio Language Models

Longhao Li, Hongjie Chen, Zehan Li +5

Recent advances in reasoning models have driven significant progress in text and multimodal domains, yet audio reasoning remains relatively limited. Only a few Large Audio Language…

cs.CL2026

Narrative Flattening: How Post-Training Compresses Thematic, Affective, and Stylistic Variation in LLM Fiction

Zehan Li, Yutong Zhu, Siyang Wu +2

Large language models produce fluent fiction, yet their creative output is widely seen as flat. We ask where this quality originates in the training and whether it affects differen…

cs.AI2026

The MiniMax-M2 Series: Mini Activations Unleashing Max Real-World Intelligence

MiniMax, :, Aili Chen +219

We introduce the MiniMax-M2 series, a family of Mixture-of-Experts language models built around the principle that mini activations can unleash maximum real-world intelligence. The…

cs.CL2026

TELEVAL: A Dynamic Benchmark Designed for Spoken Language Models in Chinese Interactive Scenarios

Zehan Li, Hongjie Chen, Qing Wang +10

Spoken language models (SLMs) have advanced rapidly in recent years, accompanied by a growing number of evaluation benchmarks. However, most existing benchmarks emphasize task comp…

cs.CL2026

A Unified Spoken Language Model with Injected Emotional-Attribution Thinking for Human-like Interaction

Qing Wang, Zehan Li, Yaodong Song +6

This paper presents a unified spoken language model for emotional intelligence, enhanced by a novel data construction strategy termed Injected Emotional-Attribution Thinking (IEAT)…

eess.AS2025

Bridging the Gap between Continuous and Informative Discrete Representations by Random Product Quantization

Xueqing Li, Hao Ma, Zehan Li +8

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has become a core technique in speech processing, but the high dimensionality of its representations makes discretization essential for improving eff…