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Lychee-FD framework enhances full-duplex SLMs by separating acoustic and semantic modalities · 2 sources…

Researchers have introduced Lychee-FD, a novel framework designed to improve full-duplex Spoken Language Models (SLMs) by addressing modality interference. The framework employs a hierarchical parameter separation strategy to decouple acoustic and semantic modeling, while a semantic alignment channel maintains cross-modality coherence. Experiments show Lychee-FD significantly enhances speech intelligence and interaction fluidity on benchmarks like Spoken QA and FullDuplexBench 1.5, without sacrificing inference efficiency. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhenyu Liu, Yunxin Li, Xuanyu Zhang, Qixun Teng, Shenyuan Jiang, Haolan Chen, Minjun Zhao, Fanbo Meng, Yu Xu, Yancheng He, Baotian Hu, Haizhou Li, Min Zhang ·

    Hierarchical Acoustic-Semantic Modeling: Modality Separation and Semantic Coherence for Full-Duplex SLMs

    arXiv:2607.06540v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developing seamless, high-performance, native intelligent full-duplex Spoken Language Models (SLMs) remains a critical challenge and long-standing goal for the speech and NLP community. Despite notable progress, recent endeavors are…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Min Zhang ·

    Hierarchical Acoustic-Semantic Modeling: Modality Separation and Semantic Coherence for Full-Duplex SLMs

    Developing seamless, high-performance, native intelligent full-duplex Spoken Language Models (SLMs) remains a critical challenge and long-standing goal for the speech and NLP community. Despite notable progress, recent endeavors are fundamentally constrained by severe modality in…