6 papers
Thinking While Speaking: Inference-Time Knowledge Transfer for Responsive and Intelligent Conversational Voice Agents
Vidya Srinivas, Zachary Englhardt, Vikram Iyer +1
Voice agents face a fundamental tension: the reasoning, retrieval, and tool use that make foundation models capable are iterative and slow, while conversational interaction demands…
Embedded Arena: Iterative Optimization via Hardware Feedback
Zhihan Zhang, Alexander Le Metzger, Jiuyang Lyu +10
Embedded devices from wildlife monitoring stations to clinical wearables require local AI inference due to latency, communication, or privacy constraints. Optimizing models for het…
Sustainability assessment using multimodal AI agents
Zhihan Zhang, Alexander Metzger, Yuxuan Mei +7
Reducing the rapidly growing environmental impact of the computing industry requires assessing the emissions of electronics at scale. However, a traditional life cycle assessment (…
EgoReasoner: Learning Egocentric 4D Reasoning via Task-Adaptive Structured Thinking
Fangrui Zhu, Yunfeng Xi, Jianmo Ni +9
Egocentric video understanding is inherently complex due to the dynamic 4D nature of the environment, where camera motion and object displacements necessitate a continuous re-evalu…
SnappyMeal: Design and Longitudinal Evaluation of a Multimodal AI Food Logging Application
Liam Bakar, Zachary Englhardt, Vidya Srinivas +4
Food logging, both self-directed and prescribed, plays a critical role in uncovering correlations between diet, medical, fitness, and health outcomes. Through conversations with nu…
Incorporating Sustainability in Electronics Design: Obstacles and Opportunities
Zachary Englhardt, Felix Hähnlein, Yuxuan Mei +6
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a methodology for holistically measuring the environmental impact of a product from initial manufacturing to end-of-life disposal. However, the exten…