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11 papers

eess.AS2026

StepAudio 2.5 Technical Report

Bin Lin, Bo Zhao, Boyong Wu +98

Unified audio-language modeling has emerged as a prominent trend in modern speech systems, promising to bring the reasoning capabilities of large language models to auditory tasks.…

cs.CL2026

Interpretable Discriminative Text Representations via Agreement and Label Disentanglement

Tong Wang, Yiqing Xu, Leo Yang Yang

Interpretable text representations should expose coordinates that are not only predictive, but also meaningful enough for independent auditors to apply. Existing discriminative rep…

eess.IV2026

SpecX: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Multi-Modal Spectroscopy and Cross-Paradigm Evaluation

Chengrui Xiang, Tengfei Ma, Yujie Chen +3

Existing spectral benchmarks are limited in scale, modality alignment, and evaluation scope, and typically focus on either specialized models or multimodal language models (MLLMs).…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Mimicry to Contextual Guidance: Knowledge Distillation for Interactive AI

Tong Wang, K. Sudhir

As large language models increasingly mediate firm - customer interactions, firms face a tradeoff: the most capable models perform well but are costly and difficult to control at s…

cs.CR2026

Evaluating Nova 2.0 Lite model under Amazon's Frontier Model Safety Framework

Satyapriya Krishna, Matteo Memelli, Tong Wang +5

Amazon published its Frontier Model Safety Framework (FMSF) as part of the Paris AI summit, following which we presented a report on Amazon's Premier model. In this report, we pres…

cs.CL2025

DefenderBench: A Toolkit for Evaluating Language Agents in Cybersecurity Environments

Chiyu Zhang, Marc-Alexandre Cote, Michael Albada +6

Large language model (LLM) agents have shown impressive capabilities in human language comprehension and reasoning, yet their potential in cybersecurity remains underexplored. We i…