4 papers
Instruct-FD: Can Your Full-Duplex Speech System Follow Turn-Taking Instructions?
Yuzhi Tang, Wentao Ma, Xiling Zhao +17
Current full-duplex (FD) spoken dialogue systems can produce fluid interactions, yet it remains unclear whether they can adapt their turn-taking behavior when explicitly instructed…
IHBench: Evaluating Post-Interruption Recovery in Voice Agents with Structured Workflows
Ahmad Salimi, Wentao Ma, Yuzhi Tang +3
Voice agents deployed in structured workflows (customer service, healthcare scheduling, account management) must handle frequent user interruptions while maintaining progress throu…
SDPO: Segment-Level Direct Preference Optimization for Social Agents
Aobo Kong, Wentao Ma, Shiwan Zhao +7
Social agents powered by large language models (LLMs) can simulate human social behaviors but fall short in handling complex social dialogues. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)…
EPO: Explicit Policy Optimization for Strategic Reasoning in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
Xiaoqian Liu, Ke Wang, Yongbin Li +6
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive reasoning capabilities in well-defined problems with clear solutions, such as mathematics and coding. However, they still struggl…