FD-SLMs exhibit state inertia during abrupt interruptions that a training-free perception-vector steering intervention mitigates, lifting correctness from 28% to 45% and IWOR from 40% to 72% on the Zero-Buffer Benchmark.
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PolySpeech-100 is a new benchmark for native-level speech comprehension across 110 linguistic variants that evaluates 22 models and reports E2E advantages on dialects, robustness gaps on low-resource languages, and degradation from Chain-of-Thought prompting.
DuplexSLA introduces a three-channel full-duplex architecture that synchronizes continuous user audio, discrete assistant audio, and rate-limited textual actions inside a single backbone for native turn-taking and in-conversation tool use.
VITA-QinYu is the first expressive end-to-end spoken language model supporting role-playing and singing alongside conversation, trained on 15.8K hours of data and outperforming prior models on expressiveness and conversational benchmarks.
AudioHijack generates imperceptible adversarial audio via gradient estimation, attention supervision, and reverberation blending to hijack 13 LALMs with 79-96% success on unseen contexts and real commercial agents.
Audio Flamingo 3 introduces an open large audio-language model achieving new state-of-the-art results on over 20 audio understanding and reasoning benchmarks using a unified encoder and curriculum training on open data.
VoiceBench is the first benchmark for multi-faceted evaluation of LLM voice assistants using real and synthetic spoken instructions with speaker, environmental, and content variations.
PRIME-Speech adds low-latency speech output to frozen S2T LLMs by synchronizing a causal post-decoder with intermediate hidden states and using mixed conditioning plus turn-level KV-cache packing, preserving original S2T performance across translation, QA, and dialogue tasks.
TRADE augments multimodal Speech LLMs with a transducer branch for streaming ASR, reporting 6.71% WER offline and 8.40% streaming on the Open ASR Leaderboard from one checkpoint.
A wait-think-answer controller for LALMs is trained via SFT followed by six-reward DAPO, raising row-weighted accuracy from 67.6% to 70.3% and cutting post-endpoint thinking length by 14% on synthetic spoken QA while remaining functional on real recorded audio.
MiniMind-O delivers a working 0.1B-scale open omni model with speech-native output, Thinker-Talker split, frozen encoders, and full release of code, checkpoints, and training data.
GRM ranks Mel bands by attack contribution versus utility sensitivity, perturbs a subset, and learns a universal perturbation to reach 88.46% average jailbreak success rate with improved attack-utility trade-off on four audio LLMs.
StableToken introduces a multi-branch architecture with bit-wise voting to create noise-robust semantic speech tokens, achieving lower Unit Edit Distance and better SpeechLLM robustness than prior single-path tokenizers.
Step-Audio 2 integrates a latent audio encoder, reasoning-centric reinforcement learning, and discrete audio token generation into language modeling to deliver state-of-the-art performance on audio understanding and conversational benchmarks.
Step-Audio introduces a 130B-parameter unified speech-text model with open-sourced components for understanding, generation, affordable voice cloning, and dynamic control, claiming SOTA human evaluation results on a new benchmark.
GLM-4-Voice builds an end-to-end spoken chatbot by deriving a 175bps single-codebook tokenizer from ASR, synthesizing interleaved speech-text data, and continuing pre-training of GLM-4-9B on up to 1 trillion tokens before fine-tuning on conversational speech.
ModeratorLM conditions a streaming speech LLM on assigned roles for adaptive turn-taking in multi-party settings, reporting over 40% higher precision and 70% higher recall than non-role baselines on real meetings and a new synthetic dataset.
Empirical sweep finds 4.17 Hz frame rate plus intermediate-layer alignment optimal for speech QA under frozen text LLM backbone.
Sympatheia introduces a continuous affect-conditioned speech dialogue model and the Sympatheia-18k synthetic dataset, showing improved emotional appropriateness over baselines when speech cues are limited.
A survey of Large Audio Language Models that establishes a taxonomy of trustworthiness vulnerabilities and proposes a Defense-in-Depth roadmap for audio intelligence.
TextPro-SLM reduces the speech-text modality gap by feeding an LLM backbone with synchronized text tokens and prosody embeddings from WhisperPro, achieving lowest gap scores at 3B/7B scales with roughly 1,000 hours of audio.
Kimi-Audio is an open-source audio foundation model that achieves state-of-the-art results on speech recognition, audio understanding, question answering, and conversation after pre-training on more than 13 million hours of speech, sound, and music data.
Qwen2.5-Omni presents a multimodal model with block-wise encoders, TMRoPE position embeddings, and a Thinker-Talker architecture that enables simultaneous text and streaming speech generation while matching text performance on reasoning benchmarks.
MOSS-Audio is an audio-language model using a 12.5 Hz encoder, DeepStack cross-layer injection, time markers, and an event-preserving annotation pipeline for unified audio understanding.
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