collaborators

5 papers

cs.LG2026

IHBench: Evaluating Post-Interruption Recovery in Voice Agents with Structured Workflows

Ahmad Salimi, Wentao Ma, Yuzhi Tang +3

Voice agents deployed in structured workflows (customer service, healthcare scheduling, account management) must handle frequent user interruptions while maintaining progress throu…

cs.CL2026

Instruct-FD: Can Your Full-Duplex Speech System Follow Turn-Taking Instructions?

Yuzhi Tang, Wentao Ma, Xiling Zhao +17

Current full-duplex (FD) spoken dialogue systems can produce fluid interactions, yet it remains unclear whether they can adapt their turn-taking behavior when explicitly instructed…

cs.CL2025

SpokenWOZ: A Large-Scale Speech-Text Benchmark for Spoken Task-Oriented Dialogue Agents

Shuzheng Si, Wentao Ma, Haoyu Gao +7

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) models have made significant progress in recent years. However, previous studies primarily focus on datasets written by annotators, which has resulted…

cs.CL2025

EPO: Explicit Policy Optimization for Strategic Reasoning in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Xiaoqian Liu, Ke Wang, Yongbin Li +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive reasoning capabilities in well-defined problems with clear solutions, such as mathematics and coding. However, they still struggl…

cs.AI2025

SDPO: Segment-Level Direct Preference Optimization for Social Agents

Aobo Kong, Wentao Ma, Shiwan Zhao +7

Social agents powered by large language models (LLMs) can simulate human social behaviors but fall short in handling complex social dialogues. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)…