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12 papers

cs.CL2026

LaSR: Context-Aware Speech Recognition via Latent Reasoning

Heyang Liu, Ziyang Cheng, Jiayi Huang +5

Recent advances in Speech Large Language Models (Speech LLMs) have significantly enhanced spoken language understanding and reasoning. However, their contextual awareness is limite…

cs.CL2026

Cross-Modal Coreference Alignment: Enabling Reliable Information Transfer in Omni-LLMs

Hongcheng Liu, Yuhao Wang, Zhe Chen +5

Omni Large Language Models (Omni-LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in holistic multi-modal perception, yet they consistently falter in complex scenarios requiring syn…

cs.CL2026

VocalNet-MDM: Accelerating Streaming Speech LLM via Self-Distilled Masked Diffusion Modeling

Ziyang Cheng, Yuhao Wang, Heyang Liu +4

Recent Speech Large Language Models~(LLMs) have achieved impressive capabilities in end-to-end speech interaction. However, the prevailing autoregressive paradigm imposes strict se…

cs.CL2026

VocalBench: Benchmarking the Vocal Conversational Abilities for Speech Interaction Models

Heyang Liu, Yuhao Wang, Ziyang Cheng +7

Speech large language models (SpeechLLMs) have extended human-machine interactions from the text modality to the dynamic speech domain. Spoken dialogues convey diverse information,…

cs.CL2025

VocalBench-zh: Decomposing and Benchmarking the Speech Conversational Abilities in Mandarin Context

Heyang Liu, Ziyang Cheng, Yuhao Wang +6

The development of multi-modal large language models (LLMs) leads to intelligent approaches capable of speech interactions. As one of the most widely spoken languages globally, Man…

cs.CL2025

VocalNet-M2: Advancing Low-Latency Spoken Language Modeling via Integrated Multi-Codebook Tokenization and Multi-Token Prediction

Yuhao Wang, Ziyang Cheng, Heyang Liu +4

Current end-to-end spoken language models (SLMs) have made notable progress, yet they still encounter considerable response latency. This delay primarily arises from the autoregres…