6 papers
The Interspeech 2026 Audio Reasoning Challenge: Evaluating Reasoning Process Quality for Audio Reasoning Models and Agents
Ziyang Ma, Ruiyang Xu, Yinghao Ma +9
Recent Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) excel in understanding but often lack transparent reasoning. To address this "black-box" limitation, we organized the Audio Reasoning Cha…
Spoken Conversational Agents with Large Language Models
Chao-Han Huck Yang, Andreas Stolcke, Larry Heck
Spoken conversational agents are converging toward voice-native LLMs. This tutorial distills the path from cascaded ASR/NLU to end-to-end, retrieval-and vision-grounded systems. We…
Extending Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation to Book-Length Documents
Kuang-Da Wang, Shuoyang Ding, Chao-Han Huck Yang +4
Despite Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrating superior translation performance and long-context capabilities, evaluation methodologies remain constrained to sentence-level ass…
WoW-Bench: Evaluating Fine-Grained Acoustic Perception in Audio-Language Models via Marine Mammal Vocalizations
Jaeyeon Kim, Heeseung Yun, Sang Hoon Woo +2
Large audio language models (LALMs) extend language understanding into the auditory domain, yet their ability to perform low-level listening, such as pitch and duration detection,…
Think Twice, Act Once: A Co-Evolution Framework of LLM and RL for Large-Scale Decision Making
Xu Wan, Wenyue Xu, Chao Yang +1
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) have shown significant promise in decision-making tasks. Nevertheless, for large-scale industria…
C-3PO: Compact Plug-and-Play Proxy Optimization to Achieve Human-like Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Guoxin Chen, Minpeng Liao, Peiying Yu +5
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems face a fundamental challenge in aligning independently developed retrievers and large language models (LLMs). Existing approaches typic…