Topic
dialogue systems
Artificial Intelligence #voice activity projection#turn-taking prediction
MuVAP: New AI Model Predicts Turn-Taking in Multiparty Conversations Using Audio and Video
Researchers introduce MuVAP, a causal multimodal framework that predicts turn-taking in multiparty conversations using monaural audio and a single camera. The model extends Voice Activity Projection by grounding acoustic predictions in face tracks, and a new 31-hour corpus of unedited conversations supports training.
Jun 17, 2026 1 source
Artificial Intelligence #on-policy distillation#curriculum learning
New Algorithm for Multi-Turn AI Agents Reduces Compounding Errors in Knowledge Distillation
A new algorithm called Guided On-Policy Distillation (Guided-OPD) addresses the failure mode where small student models compound errors in multi-turn tasks. By mixing teacher and student turns and using a curriculum that decays teacher intervention, the method improves average score by 21.1% and success rate by 25.5% over vanilla OPD.
Jun 16, 2026 1 source