3 papers
cs.CL2026
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…
cs.CL2026
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…
eess.AS2026
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…