@inproceedings{gerogiannis-etal-2026-leaf, title = "{LEAF}: Growing Trees Without Branching for Speech-Aware Large Language Model Post-Training", author = "Gerogiannis, Argyrios and Yegorova, Yekaterina and Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark A. and Veeravalli, Venugopal", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1327/", pages = "28125--28140", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }