William A. Held

Distilling an End-to-End Voice Assistant Without Instruction Training Data

2024 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Voice assistants, such as Siri and Google Assistant, typically model audio and text separately, resulting in lost speech information and increased complexity. Recent efforts to address this with end-to-end Speech Large Language Models (LLMs) trained …

Can Large Language Models Transform Computational Social Science?

2023 · Computational Linguistics

Abstract Large language models (LLMs) are capable of successfully performing many language processing tasks zero-shot (without training data). If zero-shot LLMs can also reliably classify and explain social phenomena like persuasiveness and political ideology, then …