The paper introduces ContraTalk, a benchmark that tests whether dialogue models truly use acoustic cues or rely on transcript shortcuts. It formalizes cross‑modal disagreement, creates conflict and consistent QA examples, and proposes an Audio Twin representation to expose acoustic evidence to models. Experiments show that while text‑only LLMs perform well on consistent cases, they falter on conflict cases, and AudioLLMs only partially mitigate this issue.
By Yen-Ju Lu, Yuzhe Wang, Yaohan Guan, Xiluo He, Jiarui Hai, Mingrui Liang, Kaavya Chaparala, Thomas Thebaud, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Najim Dehak, Jesus Villalba
The paper introduces a decoupled data approach for the Neural Finite State Machine (NFSM) framework to improve full‑duplex dialogue. It serializes real human‑human spoken dialogues into FSM tapes using a rule‑based event‑guided transformation, while shaping semantics through human‑agent text dialogues. A Source‑Aware Calibrated (SAC) loss is proposed to balance state‑transition token distribution and align each data source with its strongest supervisory signal, leading to better turn‑taking performance without sacrificing semantic quality.
By Yihang Li, Chenhui Chu
arXiv:2606. 03066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid rise of generative AI has made multimodal fake news increasingly realistic and pervasive, posing severe threats to public trust and social stability.
By Jinjie Shen, Yaxiong Wang, Yujiao Wu, Lechao Cheng, Tianrui Hui, Nan Pu, Zhihui Li, Zhun Zhong
arXiv:2609.22607v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We argue here that the current dominant practice in LLM human simulation: prompting instruction-tuned assistant language models to role-play personas,...
By Minwoo Kang, T\'ea Wright, Seun Eisape, Ayush Raj, Suhong Moon, Joseph Suh, Alane Suhr, David M. Chan, John Canny
The paper introduces CoCoEval, a framework for evaluating large language model (LLM)–simulated conversations by detecting 10 types of inconsistent and uncollaborative behaviors at the turn level. Using CoCoEval, the authors compare human conversations with those generated by GPT‑4.1, GPT‑5.1, and Claude Opus 4, finding that LLMs produce far fewer such behaviors under vanilla prompting and that prompt engineering or fine‑tuning often over‑produces specific behaviors. The study highlights gaps between human and LLM‑simulated interactions that conventional Likert‑scale evaluations miss, raising concerns about using LLMs as proxies for human social interaction.
By Ryo Kamoi, Ameya Godbole, Binglin Zhou, Xiaoxin Lu, Longqi Yang, Rui Zhang, Mengting Wan, Pei Zhou
arXiv:2608. 08067v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current end-to-end speech dialogue models are primarily optimized for mainstream languages and remain limited in low-resource dialect scenarios due to the scarcity of dialect speech data.
By Yi Shu, Tianyu Peng, Yingzhuo Deng, Wen Yang, Jun Lin, Changming Xie, Xinyu Yu, Jiajun Zhang