arXiv AI

DuplexAgent-RSI: Recursive Harness Improvement for Full-Duplex Voice Agent Collaboration

DuplexAgent-RSI is a full‑duplex voice‑agent collaboration system that coordinates continuous listening and speaking with asynchronous delegation to reasoning and coding agents. Its harness is modular, consisting of six editable components, and a closed‑loop improvement process (Duplex‑Harness‑RSI) revises these modules based on interaction traces and failure diagnostics. Experiments show that this approach yields stronger spoken‑knowledge and executable‑tool performance than comparable delegated systems while preserving robust interruption response.

arXiv AI
Sep 15

Multimodal Duplex Interaction Agent

arXiv:2609.08977v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this work, we present Gander, a native multimodal duplex interaction model that builds on MiniCPM-o 4.5 and is further adapted for realtim...

By Orantqing, Shengpeng Ji, Junlong Tong, Jialong Zuo, Dongjie Fu, Di Cao, Yangzhuo Li, Shangda Wu, Franz, Evan, Theron Veyra, Changhao Pan, Jingyu Lu, Dongchao Yang, Zhifei Xie, Yang Tan, Xiaoyu Shen, Xiaoda Yang, Wenfu Wang, Teddy Sun, Steve Yves, Zhou Zhao
arXiv AI
Sep 4

DuplexSpeechBench-IFEval: Evaluating Implicit Instruction Following in Full-Duplex Voice Agents

DuplexSpeechBench-IFEval (DSB-IFEval) is a new benchmark that evaluates how full‑duplex voice agents follow implicit instructions during real‑time spoken interaction. It contains 1,038 test cases across eight assistant roles and tests five conditioning protocols, measuring floor management with an Instruction Adherence Score (IAS) and persona consistency with a Persona Adherence Score (PAS). Experiments on six speech systems reveal architecture‑dependent trade‑offs, showing that some models are more sensitive to explicit versus persona‑only instructions and that even when following conflicting directives, they struggle to override them under safety conflict.

By Puneet Mathur, Dinesh Manocha
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 18

A frontend-backend architecture for tool calls in full-duplex speech models

The paper introduces a frontend‑backend architecture for full‑duplex speech‑to‑speech models that enables tool calls while preserving natural conversational flow. The frontend emits a delegation token and streams ASR transcripts to a text‑based backend LLM, which performs tool calls and returns results that are re‑injected into the frontend via a lightweight prefill‑and‑repeat mechanism before streaming TTS synthesis. In single‑turn evaluations the system achieves 92‑97% tool‑call recall, 81.2% accuracy in rejecting irrelevant calls, and competitive performance on Full‑Duplex‑Bench‑V3 and EVA‑Bench when paired with a large backend model.

By Ke Hu, Slyne Deng, Chen Chen, Elena Rastorgueva, Edresson Casanova, Punit Kumar, Dharmendra Choudhary, Nikhil Srihari, Ameya Sunil Mahabaleshwarkar, Viet Anh Trinh, Slim Essid, Oluwatobi Olabiyi, Zhehuai Chen
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 15

Realtime-Venus: A full-duplex interaction system with asynchronous delegation

arXiv:2609.13814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural interaction in digital and physical environments requires continuous perception and timely responses. Spoken dialogue relies on acoustic and li...

By Ruixiang Zhao, Hualei Wang, Renhe Sun, Enzhi Zhou, Jincenzi Wu, Xujie Song, Kexin Shi, Zihang Liu, Pengcheng Zhu, Jiayi Zhou, Baoyue Zhang, Changhao Zhang, Zitong Wang, Jinhong Wang, Tong Niu, Jingjing Liu, Junan Lin, Haolin He, Hengshuo Chu, Yuhui Chen, Jian Liu, Yuge Huang, Junliang Xing, Yuntao Wang, Weiqiang Wang, Chun Yu, Yuanchun Shi
arXiv AI
Sep 21

NemotronLabs VoiceChat: An Open Full-duplex Speech-to-Speech Model with Tool Calling Capabilities

arXiv:2609.21967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce NemotronLabs VoiceChat, an open full-duplex speech-to-speech model with native tool-calling capabilities. NemotronLabs VoiceChat combine...

By Jagadeesh Balam, Travis Bartley, Edresson Casanova, Sanjay Chauhan, Chen Chen, Zhehuai Chen, Zijia Chen, Francesco Ciannella, Slyne Deng, Mikyas Desta, Harishchandra Dubey, Slim Essid, Nourchene Ferchichi, Boris Ginsburg, Mariana Graterol Fuenmayor, Negar Habibi, Kevin Hu, Anand Joseph, Viraj Karandikar, Myungjong Kim, Viacheslav Klimkov, Seelan Lakshmi Narasimhan, Lily Lee, Jason Li, Eileen Long, Ameya Mahabaleshwarkar, Aditya Malte, Adi Margolin, Sasha Meister, Valentin Mendelev, Oluwatobi Olabiyi, Ankita Pasad, Yifan Peng, Elena Rastorgueva, Jayda Ritchie, Jason Roche, Nikhil Srihari, Yuanhang Su, Yoshi Suhara, Viet Anh Trinh, Jinhan Wang, Piotr Zelasko, Hui Wang, Puhui Meng, Chaosen Zhang, Yunsheng Liu, Shawn Wang, Wenjing Li, Zhonglei He
arXiv AI
Jun 3

DeskCraft: Benchmarking Desktop Agents on Professional Workflows and Human-in-the-Loop Collaboration

arXiv:2606. 03103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world professional desktop workflows in specialized creative and engineering software unfold over long horizons and often require human-in-the-loop coordination, where agents proactively seek necessary information and users provide additional instructions, clarifications, feedback, or corrections as the task progresses.

By Wenkai Wang, Tao Xiong, Jingchen Ni, Yunpeng Bao, Xiyun Li, Tianqi Liu, Hongcan Guo, Zilong Huang, Shengyu Zhang