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Esther Sun

2 accepted papers

2026

ADEPT: RL-Aligned Agentic Decoding of Emotion via Evidence Probing Tools — From Consensus Learning to Ambiguity-Driven Emotion Reasoning

ICML 2026spotlight

Speech Large Language Models (SLLMs) enable high-level emotion reasoning, but often produce ungrounded, text-biased judgments without verifiable acoustic evidence. In contrast, SSL encoders such as WavLM yield strong acoustic representations yet remain opaque discriminative models that offer limited…

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2026

RECOVERING PERFORMANCE IN SPEECH EMOTION RECOGNITION FROM DISCRETE TOKENS VIA MULTI-LAYER FUSION AND PARALINGUISTIC FEATURE INTEGRATION

ICASSP 2026oral

Discrete speech tokens offer significant advantages for storage and language model integration, but their application in speech emotion recognition (SER) is limited by paralinguistic information loss during quantization. This paper presents a comprehensive investigation of discrete tokens for SER. U…

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