2 papers
eess.AS2026
Comparative Reasoning: Making an Audio Language Model Better at Comparing Emotions
Abinay Reddy Naini, Jaeyeon Kim, Chao-Han Huck Yang +2
Large audio-language models (LALMs) can reason about audio, yet it remains unclear whether they can perform comparative judgments between two speech signals along emotional, enviro…
cs.LG2026
Discrete Tilt Matching
Yuyuan Chen, Shiyi Wang, Peter Potaptchik +2
Masked diffusion large language models (dLLMs) are a promising alternative to autoregressive generation. While reinforcement learning (RL) methods have recently been adapted to dLL…