Generating responsive listener facial motion is an important task for embodied conversational AI. Two modeling challenges are central: accounting for the timing of speaker cues while maintaining continuity with the listener's ongoing motion, and capturing locally variable facial events alongside the overall motion traj...
Pei-Zhen Li, Long-Bing Cao, Yang Zhang· 1 citation
Decoupled Credit Self-Distillation is introduced, which theoretically decouples credit direction and magnitude into two reliable signals and uses them to calibrate privileged teacher supervision, enabling step-to-token credit assignment for policy optimization.
Yu-Gu Li, Ze-Hong Cao, Pei-Zhen Li et al.· 0 citations
PACE (Persona Adaptation through Conversational Elicitation), a novel framework for the interactive generation and deployment of structured personas on the Ameca humanoid robot, introduces an Interactive Persona Elicitation Pipeline, enabling the robot to dynamically synthesize a tailored, psychologically grounded iden...