arXiv AI

Selective Capability Unlearning in End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding

arXiv:2606. 24063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern spoken language understanding (SLU) systems are increasingly deployed in real-world settings, where specific functionalities may need to be removed due to policy or safety constraints.

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 24

Intent Engine: Natural-Language Intent Translation for Intent-Driven Orchestration in the Compute Continuum

Intent Engine is a natural‑language intent translation architecture that converts user intents into validated Service‑level Objectives (SLOs) for compute‑continuum microservice placement. It combines schema‑constrained extraction, retrieval‑grounded value construction from monitored infrastructure, and validation against supported constraints to produce reliable SLO artifacts. In evaluations on a 716‑record dataset, Intent Engine outperformed prompting baselines and a rule‑based parser, achieving a 0.941 total F1 score with GPT‑4.1 mini and reducing downstream placement failures from 30.8% to 2.1%.

By Koushikur Islam, Rodrigo N. Calheiros
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Do Spoken Language Models Hear Speech as They Read Text? Bridging Structural Gaps Between Speech and Text

The paper investigates how Spoken Language Models (SLMs) process speech compared to text, noting that current SLMs show weak alignment between speech and text representations despite strong downstream performance. The authors propose a framework that separates length mismatch from semantic alignment to better match speech and text representations. Experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that this approach yields competitive results against strong baselines, highlighting the need to explicitly address structural differences between speech and text in SLM training.

By Hyeonyu Kim, Hwayeon Kim, Youngwon Choi, Myeongkyun Cho, Huu-Kim Nguyen