4 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…
TAPS: Target-Aware Prefix Tree Selection for Diffusion-Drafted Speculative Decoding
Zhuoyu Wang, Junnan Huang, Xinyu Chen
Using a diffusion model for parallel drafting is a promising approach for speculative decoding. By predicting tokens at multiple future positions in a single forward pass, diffusio…
EUDAIMONIA: Evaluating Undesirable Dynamics in AI
Jun Rui Huang, Wang Bill Zhu, Ziyi Liu +3
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as conversational partners for companionship, emotional disclosure, and interpersonal advice, but the social dynamics of these in…
Guided AbsoluteGrad: Magnitude of Gradients Matters to Explanation's Localization and Saliency
Jun Huang, Yan Liu
This paper proposes a new gradient-based XAI method called Guided AbsoluteGrad for saliency map explanations. We utilize both positive and negative gradient magnitudes and employ g…