3 papers
eess.AS2026
Oracle Complementarity Is Not Realizable Complementarity in Frozen-Encoder Audio-Visual Emotion Recognition
Benjamin Hurt
Complementarity analyses of multimodal systems commonly report an oracle ceiling (the fraction of examples on which at least one unimodal branch is correct) and interpret the gap b…
eess.AS2026
Is Broader Better? A Controlled Study of Multilingual Coverage and Pretraining Objective in Frozen SSL Encoders for Speech Deepfake Detection
Benjamin Hurt, Oscar O'Donnell
Frozen self-supervised (SSL) speech encoders are strong, low-cost front ends for audio deepfake detection, and recent comparisons agree that large, multilingual, discriminative enc…
cs.HC2026
Exploring How Agent Voice Accents Shape Human-AI Collaboration in K-12 Group Learning
Prerna Ravi, Carúmey Stevens, Ben Hurt +3
Collaboration is widely recognized as a cornerstone of 21st-century education, yet teachers still encounter persistent challenges in fostering productive peer interaction. LLM conv…