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…