6 papers
MAGE: Modality-Agnostic Music Generation and Target-Source Extraction
Muhammad Usama Saleem, Tejasvi Ravi, Tianyu Xu +4
Recent advances in multimodal audio generation have enabled music synthesis from text, visual cues, and other high-level conditions. However, most systems are designed for a single…
The Cost of Language: Centroid Erasure Exposes and Exploits Modal Competition in Multimodal Language Models
Akshay Paruchuri, Ishan Chatterjee, Henry Fuchs +2
Multimodal language models systematically underperform on visual perception tasks, yet the structure underlying this failure remains poorly understood. We propose centroid replacem…
Sensible Agent: A Framework for Unobtrusive Interaction with Proactive AR Agents
Geonsun Lee, Min Xia, Nels Numan +9
Proactive AR agents promise context-aware assistance, but their interactions often rely on explicit voice prompts or responses, which can be disruptive or socially awkward. We intr…
"What's Up, Doc?": Analyzing How Users Seek Health Information in Large-Scale Conversational AI Datasets
Akshay Paruchuri, Maryam Aziz, Rohit Vartak +5
People are increasingly seeking healthcare information from large language models (LLMs) via interactive chatbots, yet the nature and inherent risks of these conversations remain l…
EgoTrigger: Toward Audio-Driven Image Capture for Human Memory Enhancement in All-Day Energy-Efficient Smart Glasses
Akshay Paruchuri, Sinan Hersek, Lavisha Aggarwal +6
All-day smart glasses are likely to emerge as platforms capable of continuous contextual sensing, uniquely positioning them for unprecedented assistance in our daily lives. Integra…
Steerable Chatbots: Exploring Personalization Control Interfaces via LLM Activation Steering
Jessica Y. Bo, Tianyu Xu, Ishan Chatterjee +3
Personalizing LLM responses typically requires users to articulate their preferences through prompting, which can be burdensome at cold start and difficult to articulate in natural…