WavReward: Spoken Dialogue Models With Generalist Reward Evaluators

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Autores principales: Ji, Shengpeng, Liang, Tianle, Li, Yangzhuo, Zuo, Jialong, Fang, Minghui, He, Jinzheng, Chen, Yifu, Liu, Zhengqing, Jiang, Ziyue, Cheng, Xize, Zheng, Siqi, Xu, Jin, Lin, Junyang, Zhao, Zhou
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author Ji, Shengpeng
Liang, Tianle
Li, Yangzhuo
Zuo, Jialong
Fang, Minghui
He, Jinzheng
Chen, Yifu
Liu, Zhengqing
Jiang, Ziyue
Cheng, Xize
Zheng, Siqi
Xu, Jin
Lin, Junyang
Zhao, Zhou
author_facet Ji, Shengpeng
Liang, Tianle
Li, Yangzhuo
Zuo, Jialong
Fang, Minghui
He, Jinzheng
Chen, Yifu
Liu, Zhengqing
Jiang, Ziyue
Cheng, Xize
Zheng, Siqi
Xu, Jin
Lin, Junyang
Zhao, Zhou
contents End-to-end spoken dialogue models such as GPT-4o-audio have recently garnered significant attention in the speech domain. However, the evaluation of spoken dialogue models' conversational performance has largely been overlooked. This is primarily due to the intelligent chatbots convey a wealth of non-textual information which cannot be easily measured using text-based language models like ChatGPT. To address this gap, we propose WavReward, a reward feedback model based on audio language models that can evaluate both the IQ and EQ of spoken dialogue systems with speech input. Specifically, 1) based on audio language models, WavReward incorporates the deep reasoning process and the nonlinear reward mechanism for post-training. By utilizing multi-sample feedback via the reinforcement learning algorithm, we construct a specialized evaluator tailored to spoken dialogue models. 2) We introduce ChatReward-30K, a preference dataset used to train WavReward. ChatReward-30K includes both comprehension and generation aspects of spoken dialogue models. These scenarios span various tasks, such as text-based chats, nine acoustic attributes of instruction chats, and implicit chats. WavReward outperforms previous state-of-the-art evaluation models across multiple spoken dialogue scenarios, achieving a substantial improvement about Qwen2.5-Omni in objective accuracy from 53.4$\%$ to 91.5$\%$. In subjective A/B testing, WavReward also leads by a margin of 83$\%$. Comprehensive ablation studies confirm the necessity of each component of WavReward. All data and code will be publicly at https://github.com/jishengpeng/WavReward after the paper is accepted.
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spellingShingle WavReward: Spoken Dialogue Models With Generalist Reward Evaluators
Ji, Shengpeng
Liang, Tianle
Li, Yangzhuo
Zuo, Jialong
Fang, Minghui
He, Jinzheng
Chen, Yifu
Liu, Zhengqing
Jiang, Ziyue
Cheng, Xize
Zheng, Siqi
Xu, Jin
Lin, Junyang
Zhao, Zhou
Audio and Speech Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Multimedia
Sound
End-to-end spoken dialogue models such as GPT-4o-audio have recently garnered significant attention in the speech domain. However, the evaluation of spoken dialogue models' conversational performance has largely been overlooked. This is primarily due to the intelligent chatbots convey a wealth of non-textual information which cannot be easily measured using text-based language models like ChatGPT. To address this gap, we propose WavReward, a reward feedback model based on audio language models that can evaluate both the IQ and EQ of spoken dialogue systems with speech input. Specifically, 1) based on audio language models, WavReward incorporates the deep reasoning process and the nonlinear reward mechanism for post-training. By utilizing multi-sample feedback via the reinforcement learning algorithm, we construct a specialized evaluator tailored to spoken dialogue models. 2) We introduce ChatReward-30K, a preference dataset used to train WavReward. ChatReward-30K includes both comprehension and generation aspects of spoken dialogue models. These scenarios span various tasks, such as text-based chats, nine acoustic attributes of instruction chats, and implicit chats. WavReward outperforms previous state-of-the-art evaluation models across multiple spoken dialogue scenarios, achieving a substantial improvement about Qwen2.5-Omni in objective accuracy from 53.4$\%$ to 91.5$\%$. In subjective A/B testing, WavReward also leads by a margin of 83$\%$. Comprehensive ablation studies confirm the necessity of each component of WavReward. All data and code will be publicly at https://github.com/jishengpeng/WavReward after the paper is accepted.
title WavReward: Spoken Dialogue Models With Generalist Reward Evaluators
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Multimedia
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09558