4 papers
FACES: Fine-grained Gated Semantic Alignment for Multimodal Emotional Support Conversation
Hang Ren, Peidong Wang, Yichen Gao +4
In recent years, with advances in multimodal interaction technologies and the growing demand for intelligent emotional support, Multimodal Emotional Support Conversation (MESC) has…
PRISM: Prosody-Integrated Multi-Agent Reasoning Framework for Empathetic Spoken Dialogue
Wen Zhang, Xiaocui Yang, Zhuoyue Gao +3
Empathetic spoken dialogue systems require not only semantically appropriate responses but also emotionally aligned prosodic expression. However, cascade pipelines often discard ac…
NEAT: Neuron-Based Early Exit for Large Reasoning Models
Kang Liu, Yongkang Liu, Xiaocui Yang +5
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) often suffer from \emph{overthinking}, a phenomenon in which redundant reasoning steps are generated after a correct solution has already been reached…
ES4R: Speech Encoding Based on Prepositive Affective Modeling for Empathetic Response Generation
Zhuoyue Gao, Xiaohui Wang, Xiaocui Yang +4
Empathetic speech dialogue requires not only understanding linguistic content but also perceiving rich paralinguistic information such as prosody, tone, and emotional intensity for…