Conversation Is a Two-Body Problem: Dyadic Evaluation of Full-Duplex Dialogue Models

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arXiv:2610.08125v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Full-duplex spoken dialogue models listen and speak at the same time, enabling voice agents to have natural, low-latency interactions that turn-based systems cannot offer. However, they are commonly evaluated against single-sided interlocutors: pre-recorded audio that cannot react, or an automated examiner that reacts in real time but only administers a fixed sequence of tests and is never graded. These single-sided frameworks evaluate only half