4 papers
ProsodyLM: Uncovering the Emerging Prosody Processing Capabilities in Speech Language Models
Kaizhi Qian, Xulin Fan, Junrui Ni +4
Speech language models refer to language models with speech processing and understanding capabilities. One key desirable capability for speech language models is the ability to cap…
A Hierarchical Probabilistic Framework for Incremental Knowledge Tracing in Classroom Settings
Xinyi Gao, Qiucheng Wu, Yang Zhang +4
Knowledge tracing (KT) aims to estimate a student's evolving knowledge state and predict their performance on new exercises based on performance history. Many realistic classroom s…
ThinkPrune: Pruning Long Chain-of-Thought of LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
Bairu Hou, Yang Zhang, Jiabao Ji +4
We present ThinkPrune, a simple yet effective method for pruning the thinking length for long-thinking LLMs, which has been found to often produce inefficient and redundant thinkin…
PLAY2PROMPT: Zero-shot Tool Instruction Optimization for LLM Agents via Tool Play
Wei Fang, Yang Zhang, Kaizhi Qian +2
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated with specialized external tools, yet many tasks demand zero-shot tool usage with minimal or noisy documentation. Existing s…