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FBK's SpeechLLMs achieve strong results in IWSLT 2026 instruction following task

FBK researchers have developed SpeechLLMs for the IWSLT 2026 Instruction Following shared task, focusing on both short-form and long-form speech instruction following. For short-form tasks, their model achieved a SIFS score of 2.0708. In long-form tasks, they explored various segmentation methods and introduced the HIFS score to evaluate performance, finding that a fixed 30-second segmentation yielded the best results with a score of 2.0663. Analysis indicated that hallucinations in long-form generation primarily involved repetitive insertions, though short-form capabilities remained largely intact. AI

IMPACT This research contributes to advancements in speech instruction following models, potentially improving how AI systems understand and execute commands given via speech.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new model submission to a shared task.

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FBK's SpeechLLMs achieve strong results in IWSLT 2026 instruction following task

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhihang Xie, Marco Gaido, Sara Papi, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli ·

    FBK's Long-form SpeechLLMs for IWSLT 2026 Instruction Following

    arXiv:2606.26819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper describes our submission to the IWSLT 2026 Instruction Following shared task. SpeechLLMs are developed for both short-form and long-form speech instruction following under constrained settings. For the short track, strong…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Luisa Bentivogli ·

    FBK's Long-form SpeechLLMs for IWSLT 2026 Instruction Following

    This paper describes our submission to the IWSLT 2026 Instruction Following shared task. SpeechLLMs are developed for both short-form and long-form speech instruction following under constrained settings. For the short track, strong performance is achieved on MCIF, with a SIFS sc…