3 papers
cs.LG2026
ADEPT: RL-Aligned Agentic Decoding of Emotion via Evidence Probing Tools -- From Consensus Learning to Ambiguity-Driven Emotion Reasoning
Esther Sun, Bo-Hao Su, Abinay Reddy Naini +2
Speech Large Language Models (SLLMs) enable high-level emotion reasoning but often produce ungrounded, text-biased judgments without verifiable acoustic evidence. In contrast, self…
eess.AS2026
Recovering Performance in Speech Emotion Recognition from Discrete Tokens via Multi-Layer Fusion and Paralinguistic Feature Integration
Esther Sun, Abinay Reddy Naini, Carlos Busso
Discrete speech tokens offer significant advantages for storage and language model integration, but their application in speech emotion recognition (SER) is limited by paralinguist…
cs.HC2026
Systematizing LLM Persona Design: A Four-Quadrant Technical Taxonomy for AI Companion Applications
Esther Sun, Zichu Wu
The design and application of LLM-based personas in AI companionship is a rapidly expanding but fragmented field, spanning from virtual emotional companions and game NPCs to embodi…