RetroThinker: Enabling Retrospective Thinking in Speech LLMs

arXiv:2609.11864 · eess.AS, cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-10 · Read on arXiv

eess.AS, cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-10

Updated: 2026-09-10

Comments: Accepted to IEEE SLT 2026

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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