3 papers
cs.CL2026
ParaBridge: Bridging Paralinguistic Perception and Dialogue Behavior in Speech Language Models
Yuxiang Wang, Qinke Ni, Shengbo Cai +3
Speech carries more information than just words: a child's voice, a fearful tone, or a noisy background should all lead a sufficiently competent spoken-dialogue assistant to differ…
cs.AI2026
WebFactory: Automated Compression of Foundational Language Intelligence into Grounded Web Agents
Sicheng Fan, Qingyun Shi, Shengze Xu +5
Current paradigms for training GUI agents are fundamentally limited by a reliance on either unsafe, non-reproducible live web interactions or costly, scarce human-crafted data and…
cs.SD2026
UniSRCodec: Unified and Low-Bitrate Single Codebook Codec with Sub-Band Reconstruction
Zhisheng Zhang, Xiang Li, Yixuan Zhou +4
Neural Audio Codecs (NACs) can reduce transmission overhead by performing compact compression and reconstruction, which also aim to bridge the gap between continuous and discrete s…