3 papers
cs.LG2026
High-Dimensional Random Projection for Activation Steering in Language Models
Minh-Hieu Pham, Bach Do, Laziz Abdullaev +2
Activation steering has emerged as a key methodology for controlling the behavior of large language models (LLMs). Existing difference-in-means based methods, however, are fundamen…
eess.AS2026
Enhancing Conversational TTS with Cascaded Prompting and ICL-Based Online Reinforcement Learning
Zhicheng Ouyang, Seong-Gyun Leem, Bach Viet Do +4
Conversational AI has made significant progress, yet generating expressive and controllable text-to-speech (TTS) remains challenging. Specifically, controlling fine-grained voice s…
eess.AS2026
T-Mimi: A Transformer-based Mimi Decoder for Real-Time On-Phone TTS
Haibin Wu, Bach Viet Do, Naveen Suda +10
Neural audio codecs provide promising acoustic features for speech synthesis, with representative streaming codecs like Mimi providing high-quality acoustic features for real-time…