most citedSOVA-Bench: Benchmarking the Speech Conversation Ability for LLM-based Voice Assistant

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cs.CL2026

-Bench: Evaluating Speech Interaction Models as Scientific Voice Assistants

Heyang Liu, Jiayi Huang, Wenyang Xiao +8

The advance of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has fundamentally reshaped the paradigm of human-computer interaction, especially speech interaction models capable of seaml…

cs.CL2026

LaSR: Context-Aware Speech Recognition via Latent Reasoning

Heyang Liu, Ziyang Cheng, Jiayi Huang +5

Speech recognition in specialized domains requires leveraging contextual or topical information to improve the recognition of domain-specific entities. Speech Large Language Models…

cs.IR2026

WebExpert: domain-aware web agents with critic-guided expert experience for high-precision search

Yuelin Hu, Zhengxue Cheng, Ronghua Wu +5

Specialized web tasks in finance, biomedicine, and pharmaceuticals remain challenging due to missing domain priors: queries drift, evidence is noisy, and reasoning is brittle. We p…

cs.CL2026

VocalNet-MDM: Accelerating Streaming Speech LLM via Self-Distilled Masked Diffusion Modeling

Ziyang Cheng, Yuhao Wang, Heyang Liu +4

Recent Speech Large Language Models~(LLMs) have achieved impressive capabilities in end-to-end speech interaction. However, the prevailing autoregressive paradigm imposes strict se…

cs.CL2025

VocalBench-zh: Decomposing and Benchmarking the Speech Conversational Abilities in Mandarin Context

Heyang Liu, Ziyang Cheng, Yuhao Wang +6

The development of multi-modal large language models (LLMs) leads to intelligent approaches capable of speech interactions. As one of the most widely spoken languages globally, Man…

cs.CL2025

VocalNet-M2: Advancing Low-Latency Spoken Language Modeling via Integrated Multi-Codebook Tokenization and Multi-Token Prediction

Yuhao Wang, Ziyang Cheng, Heyang Liu +4

Current end-to-end spoken language models (SLMs) have made notable progress, yet they still encounter considerable response latency. This delay primarily arises from the autoregres…

cs.CL2025

CS3-Bench: Evaluating and Enhancing Speech-to-Speech LLMs for Mandarin-English Code-Switching

Heyang Liu, Yuhao Wang, Ziyang Cheng +4

The advancement of multimodal large language models has accelerated the development of speech-to-speech interaction systems. While natural monolingual interaction has been achieved…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

SOVA-Bench: Benchmarking the Speech Conversation Ability for LLM-based Voice Assistant

Yixuan Hou, Heyang Liu, Yuhao Wang +5

Thanks to the steady progress of large language models (LLMs), speech encoding algorithms and vocoder structure, recent advancements have enabled generating speech response directl…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

VocalBench: Benchmarking the Vocal Conversational Abilities for Speech Interaction Models

Heyang Liu, Yuhao Wang, Ziyang Cheng +7

Speech large language models (SpeechLLMs) have extended human-machine interactions from the text modality to the dynamic speech domain. Spoken dialogues convey diverse information,…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

VocalNet: Speech LLM with Multi-Token Prediction for Faster and High-Quality Generation

Yuhao Wang, Heyang Liu, Ziyang Cheng +4

Speech large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a prominent research focus in speech processing. We introduce VocalNet-1B and VocalNet-8B, a series of high-performance, low-lat…