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cs.CL2026
FriendBench: Benchmarking Dyadic Familiarity Inference in Humans and Multimodal Large Language Models
Jeffrey M. Girard, Jason Z. Zheng, Jacqueline R. Vertino +2
Reading a social situation often depends on behavior, not words alone. We introduce FriendBench, a benchmark for inferring whether two people are already familiar or are meeting as…
cs.CL2024
Beyond Turn-Based Interfaces: Synchronous LLMs as Full-Duplex Dialogue Agents
Bandhav Veluri, Benjamin N Peloquin, Bokai Yu +2
Despite broad interest in modeling spoken dialogue agents, most approaches are inherently "half-duplex" -- restricted to turn-based interaction with responses requiring explicit pr…
cs.CL2024
Textless Acoustic Model with Self-Supervised Distillation for Noise-Robust Expressive Speech-to-Speech Translation
Min-Jae Hwang, Ilia Kulikov, Benjamin Peloquin +3
In this paper, we propose a textless acoustic model with a self-supervised distillation strategy for noise-robust expressive speech-to-speech translation (S2ST). Recently proposed…