3 papers
cs.SD2026
EmotionThinker: Prosody-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Explainable Speech Emotion Reasoning
Dingdong Wang, Shujie Liu, Tianhua Zhang +3
Emotional information in speech plays a unique role in multimodal perception. However, current Speech Large Language Models (SpeechLLMs), similar to conventional speech emotion rec…
cs.AI2025
Omni-AutoThink: Adaptive Multimodal Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
Dongchao Yang, Songxiang Liu, Disong Wang +3
Recent advances in Omni models have enabled unified multimodal perception and generation. However, most existing systems still exhibit rigid reasoning behaviors, either overthinkin…
cs.CL2025
Speech Discrete Tokens or Continuous Features? A Comparative Analysis for Spoken Language Understanding in SpeechLLMs
Dingdong Wang, Junan Li, Mingyu Cui +3
With the rise of Speech Large Language Models (SpeechLLMs), two dominant approaches have emerged for speech processing: discrete tokens and continuous features. Each approach has d…