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cs.SD2026

ParaASR: Multi-Token Prediction for Fast and Long-Context LLM-Based Speech Recognition

Qingjian Lin, Yuxin Li, Haoyang Zhang +14

Audio-encoder-LLM-decoder architectures have become the dominant paradigm for modern automatic speech recognition (ASR), improving transcription quality through large-scale languag…

cs.CV2026

SpaceDG: Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence under Visual Degradation

Xiaolong Zhou, Yifei Liu, Ziyang Gong +8

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made rapid progress in spatial intelligence, yet existing spatial reasoning benchmarks largely assume pristine visual inputs and overl…

eess.AS2026

DuplexSLA: A Full-Duplex Spoken Language Model with Synchronized Speech, Language, and Action

Haoyang Zhang, Jun Chen, Donghang Wu +13

Recent advances in spoken dialogue language models have shifted from turn-based to full-duplex designs, where the model continuously listens to the user while generating responses.…

eess.AS2026

Step-Audio-R1.5 Technical Report

Yuxin Zhang, Xiangyu Tony Zhang, Daijiao Liu +16

Recent advancements in large audio language models have extended Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning into the auditory domain, enabling models to tackle increasingly complex acoustic…

cs.AI2026★ 1 cited

SkillOpt: Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills

Yifan Yang, Ziyang Gong, Weiquan Huang +12

Agent skills today are hand-crafted, generated one-shot, or evolved through loosely controlled self-revision, none of which behaves like a deep-learning optimizer for the skill, an…

cs.AI2026

From Raw Experience to Skill Consumption: A Systematic Study of Model-Generated Agent Skills

Zisu Huang, Jingwen Xu, Yifan Yang +13

Language agents increasingly improve by reusing \emph{skills} -- structured procedural artifacts distilled from past experience. In particular, \emph{domain-level} and \emph{model-…

cs.CV2026

PhotoFlow: Agentic 3D Virtual Photography Missions

Jiarui Guo, Haojia Wei, Yiming Zhang +5

Virtual photography asks an agent to enter a prepared 3D scene with no preselected camera pose or reference image, infer a suitable shot from scene information and a language inten…

eess.AS2026

StepAudio 2.5 Technical Report

Bin Lin, Bo Zhao, Boyong Wu +98

Unified audio-language modeling has emerged as a prominent trend in modern speech systems, promising to bring the reasoning capabilities of large language models to auditory tasks.…

cs.AI2025

Step-Audio-R1 Technical Report

Fei Tian, Xiangyu Tony Zhang, Yuxin Zhang +14

Recent advances in reasoning models have demonstrated remarkable success in text and vision domains through extended chain-of-thought deliberation. However, a perplexing phenomenon…

cs.CL2025

Step-Audio-EditX Technical Report

Chao Yan, Boyong Wu, Peng Yang +12

We present Step-Audio-EditX, the first open-source LLM-based audio model excelling at expressive and iterative audio editing encompassing emotion, speaking style, and paralinguisti…

eess.AS2025★ 1 cited

MULTI-Bench: A Multi-Turn Interactive Benchmark for Assessing Emotional Intelligence ability of Spoken Dialogue Models

Yayue Deng, Guoqiang Hu, Haiyang Sun +6

Spoken Dialogue Models (SDMs) have advanced rapidly, yet their ability to sustain genuinely interactive multi-turn conversations remains underexplored, as most benchmarks focus on…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Mind-Paced Speaking: A Dual-Brain Approach to Real-Time Reasoning in Spoken Language Models

Donghang Wu, Haoyang Zhang, Jun Chen +9

Real-time Spoken Language Models (SLMs) struggle to leverage Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning due to the prohibitive latency of generating the entire thought process sequentially.…

cs.SD2025

Step-Audio-AQAA: a Fully End-to-End Expressive Large Audio Language Model

Ailin Huang, Bingxin Li, Bruce Wang +73

Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have significantly advanced intelligent human-computer interaction, yet their reliance on text-based outputs limits their ability to generate na…

cs.CL2025

Impact of Frame Rates on Speech Tokenizer: A Case Study on Mandarin and English

Haoyang Zhang, Hexin Liu, Xiangyu Zhang +7

The speech tokenizer plays a crucial role in recent speech tasks, generally serving as a bridge between speech signals and language models. While low-frame-rate codecs are widely e…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Step-Audio: Unified Understanding and Generation in Intelligent Speech Interaction

Ailin Huang, Boyong Wu, Bruce Wang +142

Real-time speech interaction, serving as a fundamental interface for human-machine collaboration, holds immense potential. However, current open-source models face limitations such…