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Unit-Based Agent for Semi-Cascaded Full-Duplex Dialogue Systems

Computation and Language 2026-01-30 v2 Human-Computer Interaction

Abstract

Full-duplex voice interaction is crucial for natural human computer interaction. We present a framework that decomposes complex dialogue into minimal conversational units, enabling the system to process each unit independently and predict when to transit to the next. This framework is instantiated as a semi-cascaded full-duplex dialogue system built around a multimodal large language model, supported by auxiliary modules such as voice activity detection (VAD) and text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. The resulting system operates in a train-free, plug-and-play manner. Experiments on the HumDial dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework, which ranks second among all teams on the test set of the Human-like Spoken Dialogue Systems Challenge (Track 2: Full-Duplex Interaction). Code is available at the GitHub repository https://github.com/yu-haoyuan/fd-badcat.

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@article{arxiv.2601.20230,
  title  = {Unit-Based Agent for Semi-Cascaded Full-Duplex Dialogue Systems},
  author = {Haoyuan Yu and Yuxuan Chen and Minjie Cai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.20230},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

ICASSP 2026 (Grant Challenge). https://github.com/yu-haoyuan/fd-badcat

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