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Xubo Liu

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#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Spoken Language Models that Think Aloud

While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has improved the capability of language models, directly applying it to Spoken Language Models (SLMs) may introduce long silent intervals under the serial"think-then-speak"paradigm, disrupting real-time spoken interaction. To address this issue, we propose an asynchronous think-al...

Junyi Ao, Kainan Peng, Mingbo Ma et al. · 0 citations

Preprint Aug 2026

Listening Forward: Next Patch Embedding Prediction Enables Scalable Audio Learners

NAPE (Next-Audio-Patch-Embedding prediction), a self-supervised framework in which a causal Transformer predicts each next patch embedding of a log-mel spectrogram from the previous ones, using causal masking and stop-gradient as its sole training signal is introduced.

Umberto Cappellazzo, Xu-Bo Liu, Stavros Petridis et al. · 0 citations