Aligning Backchannel and Dialogue Context Representations via Contrastive LLM Fine-Tuning

Build a fine-tuning pipeline for small LLMs that integrates backchannel signals as special tokens to improve human-robot or human-AI dialogue flow. This is essential for building more natural, latency-aware voice agents.

Suggested repo: backchannel-llm

"Give your conversational AI the gift of 'listening' with backchannel tokens."

Estimated effort: 60h