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Cocktail-Talker: Multi-Speaker Dialog Modeling in Noisy Social Environments with Turn Action GRPO
Xilin Jiang, Riki Shimizu, Sukru Samet Dindar +3
The paper presents Cocktail-Talker, a speech‑language model framework that lets a spoken assistant decide whether to respond, listen, or ignore in multi‑speaker, noisy social conve…
AVMeme Exam: A Multimodal Multilingual Multicultural Benchmark for LLMs' Contextual and Cultural Knowledge and Thinking
Xilin Jiang, Qiaolin Wang, Junkai Wu +30
Internet audio-visual clips convey meaning through time-varying sound and motion, which extend beyond what text alone can represent. To examine whether AI models can understand suc…
SightSound-R1: Cross-Modal Reasoning Distillation from Vision to Audio Language Models
Qiaolin Wang, Xilin Jiang, Linyang He +2
While large audio-language models (LALMs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art audio understanding, their reasoning capability in complex soundscapes still falls behind large vision-…
Bridging Ears and Eyes: Analyzing Audio and Visual Large Language Models to Humans in Visible Sound Recognition and Reducing Their Sensory Gap via Cross-Modal Distillation
Xilin Jiang, Junkai Wu, Vishal Choudhari +1
Audio large language models (LLMs) are considered experts at recognizing sound objects, yet their performance relative to LLMs in other sensory modalities, such as visual or audio-…
Just ASR + LLM? A Study on Speech Large Language Models' Ability to Identify and Understand Speaker in Spoken Dialogue
Junkai Wu, Xulin Fan, Bo-Ru Lu +4
In recent years, we have observed a rapid advancement in speech language models (SpeechLLMs), catching up with humans' listening and reasoning abilities. SpeechLLMs have demonstrat…