2 papers
cs.CV2026
Plan, Watch, Recover: A Benchmark and Architectures for Proactive Procedural Assistance
Kaustav Kundu, Ritvik Shrivastava, Maxim Arap +14
Proactive multimodal assistants must decide when guidance is needed and what to say, while tracking progress through extended procedures and helping users recover when they depart…
cs.CL2026
Aligning Paralinguistic Understanding and Generation in Speech LLMs via Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning
Jingxiang Chen, Minseok Kim, Seong-Gyun Leem +13
Speech large language models (LLMs) observe paralinguistic cues such as prosody, emotion, and non-verbal sounds--crucial for intent understanding. However, leveraging these cues fa…