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Publications (18)

cs.AI2026

End-to-end Listen, Look, Speak and Act

Siyin Wang, Wenyi Yu, Xianzhao Chen +4

Human interaction is inherently multimodal and full-duplex: we listen while watching, speak while acting, and fluidly adapt to turn-taking and interruptions. Realizing these capabi…

cs.LG2024

Adaptive Conditional Expert Selection Network for Multi-domain Recommendation

Kuiyao Dong, Xingyu Lou, Feng Liu +4

Mixture-of-Experts (MOE) has recently become the de facto standard in Multi-domain recommendation (MDR) due to its powerful expressive ability. However, such MOE-based method typic…

eess.AS2025

MMAU-Pro: A Challenging and Comprehensive Benchmark for Holistic Evaluation of Audio General Intelligence

Sonal Kumar, Šimon Sedláček, Vaibhavi Lokegaonkar +31

Audio comprehension-including speech, non-speech sounds, and music-is essential for achieving human-level intelligence. Consequently, AI agents must demonstrate holistic audio unde…

eess.AS2025

Enabling Auditory Large Language Models for Automatic Speech Quality Evaluation

Siyin Wang, Wenyi Yu, Yudong Yang +10

Speech quality assessment typically requires evaluating audio from multiple aspects, such as mean opinion score (MOS) and speaker similarity (SIM) \etc., which can be challenging t…

cs.CV2024

video-SALMONN: Speech-Enhanced Audio-Visual Large Language Models

Guangzhi Sun, Wenyi Yu, Changli Tang +7

Speech understanding as an element of the more generic video understanding using audio-visual large language models (av-LLMs) is a crucial yet understudied aspect. This paper propo…

eess.AS2024

SALMONN-omni: A Codec-free LLM for Full-duplex Speech Understanding and Generation

Wenyi Yu, Siyin Wang, Xiaoyu Yang +7

Full-duplex multimodal large language models (LLMs) provide a unified framework for addressing diverse speech understanding and generation tasks, enabling more natural and seamless…

eess.AS2026

SALMONN-2: Advancing General-Purpose Hearing Abilities with Self-Supervised Representations

Xiaoyu Yang, Xuenan Xu, Wenyi Yu +10

Recent audio large language models (ALLMs) are typically built upon audio encoders trained with large amounts of supervised data. Since self-supervised learning (SSL) audio encoder…

cs.SD2024

Can Large Language Models Understand Spatial Audio?

Changli Tang, Wenyi Yu, Guangzhi Sun +8

This paper explores enabling large language models (LLMs) to understand spatial information from multichannel audio, a skill currently lacking in auditory LLMs. By leveraging LLMs'…

eess.AS2023

Connecting Speech Encoder and Large Language Model for ASR

Wenyi Yu, Changli Tang, Guangzhi Sun +6

The impressive capability and versatility of large language models (LLMs) have aroused increasing attention in automatic speech recognition (ASR), with several pioneering studies a…

eess.AS2025

Extract and Diffuse: Latent Integration for Improved Diffusion-based Speech and Vocal Enhancement

Yudong Yang, Zhan Liu, Wenyi Yu +3

Diffusion-based generative models have recently achieved remarkable results in speech and vocal enhancement due to their ability to model complex speech data distributions. While t…

eess.AS2025

QualiSpeech: A Speech Quality Assessment Dataset with Natural Language Reasoning and Descriptions

Siyin Wang, Wenyi Yu, Xianzhao Chen +7

This paper explores a novel perspective to speech quality assessment by leveraging natural language descriptions, offering richer, more nuanced insights than traditional numerical…

eess.AS2023

Fine-grained Audio-Visual Joint Representations for Multimodal Large Language Models

Guangzhi Sun, Wenyi Yu, Changli Tang +6

Audio-visual large language models (LLM) have drawn significant attention, yet the fine-grained combination of both input streams is rather under-explored, which is challenging but…

cs.CL2024

MAV: A Multimodal, Multigenre, and Multipurpose Audio-Visual Academic Lecture Dataset

Zhe Chen, Heyang Liu, Wenyi Yu +6

Publishing open-source academic video recordings is an emergent and prevalent approach to sharing knowledge online. Such videos carry rich multimodal information including speech,…

cs.LG2024

HMDN: Hierarchical Multi-Distribution Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction

Xingyu Lou, Yu Yang, Kuiyao Dong +5

As the recommendation service needs to address increasingly diverse distributions, such as multi-population, multi-scenario, multitarget, and multi-interest, more and more recent w…

cs.LG2024

An Improved Empirical Fisher Approximation for Natural Gradient Descent

Xiaodong Wu, Wenyi Yu, Chao Zhang +1

Approximate Natural Gradient Descent (NGD) methods are an important family of optimisers for deep learning models, which use approximate Fisher information matrices to pre-conditio…

cs.CL2025

SALMONN-omni: A Standalone Speech LLM without Codec Injection for Full-duplex Conversation

Wenyi Yu, Siyin Wang, Xiaoyu Yang +7

In order to enable fluid and natural human-machine speech interaction, existing full-duplex conversational systems often adopt modular architectures with auxiliary components such…

cs.SD2024

SALMONN: Towards Generic Hearing Abilities for Large Language Models

Changli Tang, Wenyi Yu, Guangzhi Sun +6

Hearing is arguably an essential ability of artificial intelligence (AI) agents in the physical world, which refers to the perception and understanding of general auditory informat…

eess.AS2025

Towards General Auditory Intelligence: Large Multimodal Models for Machine Listening and Speaking

Siyin Wang, Zengrui Jin, Changli Tang +26

In the era of large language models (LLMs) and artificial general intelligence (AGI), computer audition must evolve beyond traditional paradigms to fully leverage the capabilities…