5 papers
Bridging What the Model Thinks and How It Speaks: Expressive Speech Generation via Self-Aware Intent-Realization Alignment
Kuang Wang, Lai Wei, Ping Lin +8
Speech Language Models (SLMs) exhibit strong semantic understanding, yet often fail to translate this capacity into expressive acoustic realization, producing speech with flattened…
Discourse-Aware Dual-Track Streaming Response for Low-Latency Spoken Dialogue Systems
Siyuan Liu, Jiahui Xu, Feng Jiang +6
Achieving human-like responsiveness is a critical yet challenging goal for cascaded spoken dialogue systems. Conventional ASR-LLM-TTS pipelines follow a strictly sequential paradig…
CATCH: A Controllable Theme Detection Framework with Contextualized Clustering and Hierarchical Generation
Rui Ke, Jiahui Xu, Shenghao Yang +3
Theme detection is a fundamental task in user-centric dialogue systems, aiming to identify the latent topic of each utterance without relying on predefined schemas. Unlike intent i…
Your RAG is Unfair: Exposing Fairness Vulnerabilities in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Backdoor Attacks
Gaurav Bagwe, Saket S. Chaturvedi, Xiaolong Ma +3
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances factual grounding by integrating retrieval mechanisms with generative models but introduces new attack surfaces, particularly through…
Know You First and Be You Better: Modeling Human-Like User Simulators via Implicit Profiles
Kuang Wang, Xianfei Li, Shenghao Yang +3
User simulators are crucial for replicating human interactions with dialogue systems, supporting both collaborative training and automatic evaluation, especially for large language…