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Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar

5 accepted papers

2026

Incentivizing Consistent, Effective and Scalable Reasoning Capability in Audio LLMs via Reasoning Process Rewards

ICLR 2026poster

The role of reasoning in Audio Large Language Models remains widely underexplored, as introducing a reasoning process often degrades rather than improves performance during inference, a phenomenon we term test-time inverse scaling, where longer reasoning chains yield progressively worse results. We…

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2025

Align-SLM: Textless Spoken Language Models with Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback

ACL 2025long

While textless Spoken Language Models (SLMs) have shown potential in end-to-end speech-to-speech modeling, they still lag behind text-based Large Language Models (LLMs) in terms of semantic coherence and relevance. This work introduces the Align-SLM framework, which leverages preference optimization…

2025

Speech Recognition Rescoring with Large Speech-Text Foundation Models

ICASSP 2025accepted

Large language models (LLM) have demonstrated the ability to understand human language by leveraging large amount of text data. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are often limited by available transcribed speech data and benefit from a second pass rescoring using LLM. Recently multi-modal l…

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2024

Paralinguistics-Enhanced Large Language Modeling of Spoken Dialogue

ICASSP 2024accepted

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated superior abilities in tasks such as chatting, reasoning, and question-answering. However, standard LLMs may ignore crucial paralinguistic information, such as sentiment, emotion, and speaking style, which are essential for achieving natural, human-like…

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2024

Towards ASR Robust Spoken Language Understanding Through in-Context Learning with Word Confusion Networks

ICASSP 2024accepted

In the realm of spoken language understanding (SLU). numerous natural language understanding (NLU) methodologies have been adapted by supplying large language models (LLMs) with transcribed speech instead of conventional written text. In real-world scenarios, prior to input into an LLM. an automated…

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