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Cocktail-Talker: Multi-Speaker Dialog Modeling in Noisy Social Environments with Turn Action GRPO
Xilin Jiang, Riki Shimizu, Sukru Samet Dindar +3
Spoken dialog systems are typically designed for clean, dyadic interactions in which a single user and an assistant take turns speaking. Real-world social conversations, however, a…
Sympatheia: Emotionally Adaptive Voice Assistant with Continuous Affect Conditioning
Sukru Samet Dindar, Riki Shimizu, Xilin Jiang +1
Empathetic spoken dialogue systems must infer a user's emotional state to respond appropriately, yet everyday speech often carries weak, neutral, or ambiguous affective cues. To ad…
AVMeme Exam: A Multimodal Multilingual Multicultural Benchmark for LLMs' Contextual and Cultural Knowledge and Thinking
Xilin Jiang, Qiaolin Wang, Junkai Wu +30
Internet audio-visual clips convey meaning through time-varying sound and motion, which extend beyond what text alone can represent. To examine whether AI models can understand suc…
AAD-LLM: Neural Attention-Driven Auditory Scene Understanding
Xilin Jiang, Sukru Samet Dindar, Vishal Choudhari +6
Auditory foundation models, including auditory large language models (LLMs), process all sound inputs equally, independent of listener perception. However, human auditory perceptio…