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LLMs taught to understand laughter with new dataset and MoLE framework

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Researchers have developed SMILE-Next, a new dataset and framework designed to improve how large language models understand and reason about laughter in real-world contexts. The system includes laughter-specific Self-Instruct for generating diverse training instructions and a Mixture-of-Laugh-Experts (MoLE) framework that uses adaptive routing to select specialized experts for different laughter-related tasks. Experiments demonstrate that this approach significantly outperforms existing multimodal LLM baselines in detecting, classifying, and reasoning about laughter. AI

IMPACT Enhances LLM capabilities in understanding nuanced human social signals, potentially improving human-AI interaction.

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LLMs taught to understand laughter with new dataset and MoLE framework

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Lee Jung-Mok, Kim Sung-Bin, Joohyun Chang, Lee Hyun, Tae-Hyun Oh ·

    SMILE-Next: Teaching Large Language Models to Detect, Classify, and Reason about Laughter

    arXiv:2605.28084v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Laughter is a complex social signal that conveys communicative intent beyond amusement. While prior work has focused on isolated laughter analysis tasks, a comprehensive understanding of laughter in real-world scenarios remains un…

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