3 papers
cs.AI2026
Findings of the First Teaching Monster Challenge: A Benchmark of Pedagogical Content Knowledge in AI Agents
Yi-Cheng Lin, Yu-Kai Guo, Szu-Chi Chen +15
AI agents can now solve problems, answer like subject experts, and generate long-form multimodal content. However, whether they can adapt a lesson to fit a specified learner, which…
cs.SD2026
BlueMagpie-TTS: A Token-Efficient Tokenizer, Language Model, and TTS for Taiwanese-Accent Code-Switching Speech
Ho Lam Chung, Bo-Xuan Zheng, Cheng-Chieh Huang +8
Off-the-shelf TTS systems are poorly adapted to Taiwanese Mandarin. Their accent defaults to other Mandarin variants, their tokenizers over-segment common Taiwanese text, and their…
cs.SD2026
Nudging Hidden States: Training-Free Model Steering for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Audio-Language Models
Lok-Lam Ieong, Chia-Chien Chen, Chih-Kai Yang +3
Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting has been extended to large audio-language models (LALMs) to elicit reasoning, yet enhancing its effectiveness without training remains challenging.…