3 papers
cs.LG2026
Conceptors for Semantic Steering
Ilias Triantafyllopoulos, Young-Min Cho, Ren Tao +6
Activation-based steering provides control of LLM behavior at inference time, but the dominant paradigm reduces each concept to a single direction whose geometry is left largely un…
eess.AS2025
WhiSPA: Semantically and Psychologically Aligned Whisper with Self-Supervised Contrastive and Student-Teacher Learning
Rajath Rao, Adithya Ganesan, Oscar Kjell +10
Current speech encoding pipelines often rely on an additional text-based LM to get robust representations of human communication, even though SotA speech-to-text models often have…
cs.CL2025
Evaluating Speech-to-Text Systems with PennSound
Jonathan Wright, Mark Liberman, Neville Ryant +1
A random sample of nearly 10 hours of speech from PennSound, the world's largest online collection of poetry readings and discussions, was used as a benchmark to evaluate several c…