@inproceedings{chen-etal-2026-wavalign,
    title = "{W}av{A}lign: Enhancing Intelligence and Expressiveness in Spoken Dialogue Models via Adaptive Hybrid Post-Training",
    author = "Chen, Yifu  and
      Ji, Shengpeng  and
      Chen, Qian  and
      Liang, Tianle  and
      Li, Yangzhuo  and
      Wang, Ziqing  and
      Wang, Wen  and
      Lu, Jingyu  and
      Wang, Haoxiao  and
      Pu, Xueyi  and
      Zhuo, Fan  and
      Zhao, Zhou",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.114/",
    pages = "2421--2444",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}