Radu Tudor Ionescu — Papers on Cortexa

arxivcs.CLcs.AIcs.LGcs.SD2026-07-07

Audio Sentiment Analysis via Distillation and Cross-Modal Integration of Generated Multilingual Transcripts

Andrei-George Durdun, Victor Constantinescu, Radu Tudor Ionescu

Automatically recognizing the sentiment, positive or negative, from speech is a challenging task, requiring both the analysis of vocal inflections and the interpretation of uttered words. Recent solutions rely on audio foundation models to solve the task, but it remains unclear i…

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arxivcs.CVcs.AIcs.LG2026-07-07

Few-Medoids: An Embarrassingly Simple Coreset Selection Method for Few-Shot Knowledge Distillation

Cemil-Andrei Dilmac, Florinel-Alin Croitoru, Radu Tudor Ionescu

Coreset selection aims to identify a small and highly representative subset of a massive dataset for efficient model training. The problem remains challenging even in the few-shot knowledge distillation (KD) setup, where a full-scale pre-trained teacher informs the student networ…

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