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May 2026
Minimizing Modality Gap from the Input Side: Your Speech LLM Can Be a Prosody-Aware Text LLM
Experiments show that TextPro-SLM achieves the lowest modality gap among leading SLMs at both 3B and 7B scales, while also delivering strong overall performance on paralinguistic understanding tasks, suggesting that reducing the modality gap from the input side is both effective and data-efficient.
Wen-Qian Cui, Xiao-Hui Li, Da-Xin Tan et al.
· arXiv.org · 3 citations