3 papers
cs.IR2026
Factorized Latent Reasoning for LLM-based Recommendation
Tianqi Gao, Chengkai Huang, Zihan Wang +3
Large language models (LLMs) have recently been adopted for recommendation by framing user preference modeling as a language generation problem. However, existing latent reasoning…
cs.SD2026
DIFFA-2: A Practical Diffusion Large Language Model for General Audio Understanding
Jiaming Zhou, Xuxin Cheng, Shiwan Zhao +5
Autoregressive (AR) large audio language models (LALMs) such as Qwen-2.5-Omni have achieved strong performance on audio understanding and interaction, but scaling them remains cost…
cs.CL2026
Reflecting Twice before Speaking with Empathy: Self-Reflective Alternating Inference for Empathy-Aware End-to-End Spoken Dialogue
Yuhang Jia, Pei Liu, Haoqin Sun +6
End-to-end Spoken Language Models (SLMs) hold great potential for paralinguistic perception, and numerous studies have aimed to enhance their capabilities, particularly for empathe…