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SITA: Learning Speaker-Invariant and Tone-Aware Speech Representations for Low-Resource Tonal Languages
Tianyi Xu, Xuan Ouyang, Binwei Yao +4
Tonal low-resource languages are widely spoken but remain underserved by modern speech technologies. A central challenge is learning speech representations that are robust to nuisa…
DEBATE: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Evaluating Opinion Dynamics in Role-Playing LLM Agents
Yun-Shiuan Chuang, Ruixuan Tu, Chengtao Dai +9
Modeling opinion change through social interactions is important for understanding polarization, misinformation, and societal conflict. Recent work simulates opinion dynamics with…
Peacemaker or Troublemaker: How Sycophancy Shapes Multi-Agent Debate
Binwei Yao, Chao Shang, Wanyu Du +6
Large language models (LLMs) often display sycophancy, a tendency toward excessive agreeability. This behavior poses significant challenges for multi-agent debating systems (MADS)…
AI as a deliberative partner fosters intercultural empathy for Americans but fails for Latin American participants
Isabel Villanueva, Tara Bobinac, Binwei Yao +2
Despite increasing AI chatbot deployment in public discourse, empirical evidence on their capacity to foster intercultural empathy remains limited. Through a randomized experiment,…
No Preference Left Behind: Group Distributional Preference Optimization
Binwei Yao, Zefan Cai, Yun-Shiuan Chuang +4
Preferences within a group of people are not uniform but follow a distribution. While existing alignment methods like Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) attempt to steer models t…
Towards Reliable and Empathetic Depression-Diagnosis-Oriented Chats
Kunyao Lan, Cong Ming, Binwei Yao +2
Chatbots can serve as a viable tool for preliminary depression diagnosis via interactive conversations with potential patients. Nevertheless, the blend of task-oriented and chit-ch…
Benchmarking Machine Translation with Cultural Awareness
Binwei Yao, Ming Jiang, Tara Bobinac +2
Translating culture-related content is vital for effective cross-cultural communication. However, many culture-specific items (CSIs) often lack viable translations across languages…
D4: a Chinese Dialogue Dataset for Depression-Diagnosis-Oriented Chat
Binwei Yao, Chao Shi, Likai Zou +5
In a depression-diagnosis-directed clinical session, doctors initiate a conversation with ample emotional support that guides the patients to expose their symptoms based on clinica…