Chenxu Guo
Publications
EgoPro-Bench: Benchmarking Personalized Proactive Interaction in Egocentric Video Streams
Existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remain primarily reactive, failing to continuously perceive environments or proactively assist users. While emerging benchmarks address proactivity, they are largely confined to alert scenarios, neglect personalized context, and fail to evaluate the precise timing of human-machine interactions (HMI).In this paper, we introduce EgoPro-Bench, a novel benchmark for training and evaluating proactive interaction capabilities based on streaming egocentric videos; it comprises 2,400 videos in the evaluation set and over 12,000 videos in the training set.Unlike previous works, EgoPro-Bench leverages simulated user profiles to generate diverse user intentions and to construct high-fidelity HMI data across 12 distinct domains.Subsequently, we propose a specialized evaluation protocol and metrics, train proactive interaction models designed for efficient reasoning and low-latency interaction on streaming video data, and conduct comprehensive evaluations.Furthermore, we introduce an interaction principle termed "short thinking, better interaction", which allocates a limited token budget prior to intent recognition, thereby enhancing interaction performance.The experiments demonstrate that EgoPro-Bench substantially enhances the intention understanding capabilities of MLLMs and enables accurate identification of appropriate timings for HMI, thereby laying a solid foundation for next-generation user-centric proactive interactive agents.
HASS: Hierarchical Simulation of Logopenic Aphasic Speech for Scalable PPA Detection
Building a diagnosis model for primary progressive aphasia (PPA) has been challenging due to the data scarcity. Collecting clinical data at scale is limited by the high vulnerability of clinical population and the high cost of expert labeling. To circumvent this, previous studies simulate dysfluent speech to generate training data. However, those approaches are not comprehensive enough to simulate PPA as holistic, multi-level phenotypes, instead relying on isolated dysfluencies. To address this, we propose a novel, clinically grounded simulation framework, Hierarchical Aphasic Speech Simulation (HASS). HASS aims to simulate behaviors of logopenic variant of PPA (lvPPA) with varying degrees of severity. To this end, semantic, phonological, and temporal deficits of lvPPA are systematically identified by clinical experts, and simulated. We demonstrate that our framework enables more accurate and generalizable detection models.
HuPER: A Human-Inspired Framework for Phonetic Perception
We propose HuPER, a human-inspired framework that models phonetic perception as adaptive inference over acoustic-phonetics evidence and linguistic knowledge. With only 100 hours of training data, HuPER achieves state-of-the-art phonetic error rates on five English benchmarks and strong zero-shot transfer to 95 unseen languages. HuPER is also the first framework to enable adaptive, multi-path phonetic perception under diverse acoustic conditions. All training data, models, and code are open-sourced. Code and demo avaliable at https://github.com/HuPER29/HuPER.