7 papers
Best Friends, Not Forever: Evaluating Long-Horizon Persona Collapse and Behavioral Drift in AI Companions
Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Akshara Prabhakar, Yu Li +2
As AI companions increasingly mediate repeated social interaction, users may rely on a stable role and shared history, yet locally acceptable replies do not ensure that either pers…
BehaviorBench: Modeling Real-World User Decisions from Behavioral Traces
Liangwei Yang, Jielin Qiu, Zixiang Chen +9
Many decision-support settings require systems that adapt to individual users, but evaluation data for this problem remain limited. Existing benchmarks for user understanding often…
Whisper-AuT: Domain-Adapted Audio Encoder for Efficient Audio-LLM Training
Jielin Qiu, Ming Zhu, Wenting Zhao +11
Audio-native large language models (audio-LLMs) commonly use Whisper as their audio encoder. However, Whisper was trained exclusively on speech data, producing weak representations…
Enterprise Sales Copilot: Enabling Real-Time AI Support with Automatic Information Retrieval in Live Sales Calls
Jielin Qiu, Liangwei Yang, Ming Zhu +11
During live sales calls, customers frequently ask detailed product questions that require representatives to manually search internal databases and CRM systems. This process typica…
Building Enterprise Realtime Voice Agents from Scratch: A Technical Tutorial
Jielin Qiu, Zixiang Chen, Liangwei Yang +11
We present a technical tutorial for building enterprise-grade realtime voice agents from first principles. While end-to-end speech-to-speech models may ultimately provide the best…
VoiceAgentRAG: Solving the RAG Latency Bottleneck in Real-Time Voice Agents Using Dual-Agent Architectures
Jielin Qiu, Jianguo Zhang, Zixiang Chen +12
We present VoiceAgentRAG, an open-source dual-agent memory router that decouples retrieval from response generation. A background Slow Thinker agent continuously monitors the conve…