3 papers
cs.CL2026
Separating Decision-Rule Misalignment from Readout-Coverage Limitations in Speech Language Models
Linkai Peng, Baorian Nuchged
Speech language models are increasingly evaluated on paralinguistic tasks by the accuracy of prompted answers, but answer accuracy combines failures at different stages of the audi…
cs.CL2026
Represented but Ignored: A Causal Account of Prosodic Underuse in Audio-Language Models
Linkai Peng, Baorian Nuchged
Human speech is richly expressive, with prosody carrying linguistic and emotional information beyond the lexical content. A capable large audio-language model (audio-LLM) should th…
cs.CL2025
Spoken Language Intelligence of Large Language Models for Language Learning
Linkai Peng, Baorian Nuchged, Yingming Gao
People have long hoped for a conversational system that can assist in real-life situations, and recent progress on large language models (LLMs) is bringing this idea closer to real…