3 papers
eess.AS2026
Stabilizing Short Duration Speaker Verification through Neural Re-scoring with Hybrid Enrollment
Zhiqi Ai, Han Cheng, Shiyi Mu +3
Short-duration speaker verification (SDSV) is crucial for personalized keyword spotting, where test utterances are typically shorter than three seconds. Limited speech duration res…
cs.CL2026
Step 3.5 Flash: Open Frontier-Level Intelligence with 11B Active Parameters
Ailin Huang, Ang Li, Aobo Kong +213
We introduce Step 3.5 Flash, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that bridges frontier-level agentic intelligence and computational efficiency. We focus on what matters most wh…
cs.SD2025
Dual Data Scaling for Robust Two-Stage User-Defined Keyword Spotting
Zhiqi Ai, Han Cheng, Yuxin Wang +3
In this paper, we propose DS-KWS, a two-stage framework for robust user-defined keyword spotting. It combines a CTC-based method with a streaming phoneme search module to locate ca…