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Richard He Bai

3 accepted papers

2026

Closing the Gap Between Text and Speech Understanding in LLMs

ICLR 2026poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) can be adapted to extend their text capabilities to speech inputs. However, these speech-adapted LLMs consistently underperform their text-based counterparts—and even cascaded pipelines—on language understanding tasks. We term this shortfall the text–speech understanding…

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2025

Training Bilingual LMs with Data Constraints in the Targeted Language

ACL 2025finding

Large language models are trained on massive scrapes of the web, as required by current scaling laws. Most progress is made for English, given its abundance of high-quality pretraining data. For most other languages, however, such high quality pretraining data is unavailable. In this work, we study…

2024

Divide-or-Conquer? Which Part Should You Distill Your LLM?

EMNLP 2024finding

Recent methods have demonstrated that Large Language Models (LLMs) can solve reasoning tasks better when they are encouraged to solve subtasks of the main task first. In this paper we devise a similar strategy that breaks down reasoning tasks into a problem decomposition phase and a problem solving…