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7 papers

cs.SD2026

Do Audio LLMs Listen or Read? Analyzing and Mitigating Paralinguistic Failures with VoxParadox

Jiacheng Pang, Ashutosh Chaubey, Mohammad Soleymani

Audio large language models (Audio LLMs) demonstrate strong performance on speech understanding tasks, yet their ability to understand paralinguistic information remains limited. T…

cs.CV2026

MoD-DPO: Towards Mitigating Cross-modal Hallucinations in Omni LLMs using Modality Decoupled Preference Optimization

Ashutosh Chaubey, Jiacheng Pang, Mohammad Soleymani

Omni-modal large language models (omni LLMs) have recently achieved strong performance across audiovisual understanding tasks, yet they remain highly susceptible to cross-modal hal…

cs.CV2026

GDPO-Listener: Expressive Interactive Head Generation via Auto-Regressive Flow Matching and Group reward-Decoupled Policy Optimization

Zhangyu Jin, Maksim Siniukov, Deuksin Kwon +2

Generating realistic 3D head motion for dyadic interactions is a significant challenge in virtual human synthesis. While recent methods achieve impressive results with speaking hea…

cs.LG2026

AVERE: Improving Audiovisual Emotion Reasoning with Preference Optimization

Ashutosh Chaubey, Jiacheng Pang, Maksim Siniukov +1

Emotion understanding is essential for building socially intelligent agents. Although recent multimodal large language models have shown strong performance on this task, two key ch…

cs.CV2025

Face-LLaVA: Facial Expression and Attribute Understanding through Instruction Tuning

Ashutosh Chaubey, Xulang Guan, Mohammad Soleymani

The human face plays a central role in social communication, necessitating the use of performant computer vision tools for human-centered applications. We propose Face-LLaVA, a mul…

cs.CV2025

DiTaiListener: Controllable High Fidelity Listener Video Generation with Diffusion

Maksim Siniukov, Di Chang, Minh Tran +3

Generating naturalistic and nuanced listener motions for extended interactions remains an open problem. Existing methods often rely on low-dimensional motion codes for facial behav…