3 papers
cs.LG2026
From Fixed Keys to Readable Schemas: Small Language Models for Vehicle Agent Function Calls
Hamed Jafarzadeh Asl, Yuanhao Yu, Vahid Partovi Nia
In-vehicle assistants must translate natural-language requests into accurate vehicle function calls under strict memory and latency constraints, making small language models (SLMs)…
eess.AS2025
HyWA: Architecture-Preserving Personalized Voice Activity Detection for Full-Duplex Voice Assistants
Hamed Jafarzadeh Asl, Amin Edraki, Mahsa Ghazvini Nejad +4
Voice activity detection (VAD) serves as an early gate in voice-assistant pipelines for smart devices. Because conventional VADs respond to speech from any speaker, nearby conversa…
eess.AS2025
Tiny Noise-Robust Voice Activity Detector for Voice Assistants
Hamed Jafarzadeh Asl, Mahsa Ghazvini Nejad, Amin Edraki +2
Voice Activity Detection (VAD) in the presence of background noise remains a challenging problem in speech processing. Accurate VAD is essential in automatic speech recognition, vo…