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Sheng-Bo Cai

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Thinking in Depth, Speaking Directly: Recurrent Latent Reasoning for Paralinguistically Grounded Spoken Dialogue

Empathetic spoken dialogue requires models to use both what is said and how it is said to decide how to respond. Explicit CoT can improve paralinguistic perception and make acoustic cues more explicit in replies, yet does not ensure their effective use in response planning. We call this mismatch the perception-reasonin...

Sheng-Bo Cai, Yu-Xiang Wang, Jing-Ran Xie et al. · 0 citations

#natural language process... Jun 2026

ParaBridge: Bridging Paralinguistic Perception and Dialogue Behavior in Speech Language Models

ParaBridge is proposed, an on-policy self-distillation method that turns a brittle inference-time scaffold into stable model behavior and generalizes to unseen paralinguistic cues, transfers from safety-oriented training to empathy-oriented dialogue, and works on a different SLM backbone.

Yuxiang Wang, Qin-Ke Ni, Sheng-Bo Cai et al. · arXiv.org · 2 citations