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Despite extensions to speech inputs, effectively leveraging the rich knowledge and contextual understanding of large language models (LLMs) in automatic speech recognition (ASR) remains non-trivial, as the task primarily involves direct…

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Transformer-based models show their effectiveness across multiple domains and tasks. The self-attention allows to combine information from all sequence elements into context-aware representations. However, global and local information has…

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Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have expanded context windows to million-token scales, yet benchmarks for evaluating memory remain limited to short-session synthetic dialogues. We introduce \textsc{MemoryCD}, the first…

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Identifying patient cohorts is fundamental to numerous healthcare tasks, including clinical trial recruitment and retrospective studies. Current cohort retrieval methods in healthcare organizations rely on automated queries of structured…

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