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RetroThinker: Enabling Retrospective Thinking in Speech LLMs
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- RetroThinker enables speech LLMs to revise their reasoning steps during inference, improving accuracy by 11% on math problems while maintaining low latency.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building real-time voice assistants that need strong reasoning without sacrificing response speed or paralinguistic information.
- Watch out
- Evaluation limited to GSM8K math benchmark; unclear how well retrospective thinking generalizes to other reasoning tasks or real-world conversational scenarios.
- llm
- language model
- reasoning
- latency
- speech
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