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Beyond Mode Collapse: Generating Diverse Synthetic Expert Conversations via Generative Flow Networks

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arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 28

Learning Natural Conversational Behavior in Tandem Speech-to-Speech Models with Randomized Guidance

The paper introduces a method called randomized intermediate guidance for training tandem speech-to-speech models, where a large language model (LLM) acts as a backend providing candidate responses while the user is speaking. Instead of simulating the backend’s guidance, the approach derives guidance directly from the conversation corpus, using target responses for informative guidance and randomly sampled responses to simulate irrelevant updates. Experiments on synthetic dialogues and 3.8k hours of real conversations show that this technique yields response quality comparable to LLM-generated baselines while improving natural turn‑taking and audio‑judge naturalness.

By Manato Yaguchi, Yotaro Kubo, Hikaru Asano, So Kuroki