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20182026
most citedTransformers are RNNs: Fast Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention

310 citations · 498 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

eess.AS2026

SAM Audio Judge: A Unified Multimodal Framework for Perceptual Evaluation of Audio Separation

Helin Wang, Bowen Shi, Andros Tjandra +6

The performance evaluation remains a complex challenge in audio separation, and existing evaluation metrics are often misaligned with human perception, course-grained, relying on g…

cs.SD2025

Pushing the Frontier of Audiovisual Perception with Large-Scale Multimodal Correspondence Learning

Apoorv Vyas, Heng-Jui Chang, Cheng-Fu Yang +9

We introduce Perception Encoder Audiovisual, PE-AV, a new family of encoders for audio and video understanding trained with scaled contrastive learning. Built on PE, PE-AV makes se…

eess.AS2025

SAM Audio: Segment Anything in Audio

Bowen Shi, Andros Tjandra, John Hoffman +11

General audio source separation is a key capability for multimodal AI systems that can perceive and reason about sound. Despite substantial progress in recent years, existing separ…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

Meta Audiobox Aesthetics: Unified Automatic Quality Assessment for Speech, Music, and Sound

Andros Tjandra, Yi-Chiao Wu, Baishan Guo +10

The quantification of audio aesthetics remains a complex challenge in audio processing, primarily due to its subjective nature, which is influenced by human perception and cultural…

cs.SD2024

MusicFlow: Cascaded Flow Matching for Text Guided Music Generation

K R Prajwal, Bowen Shi, Matthew Lee +8

We introduce MusicFlow, a cascaded text-to-music generation model based on flow matching. Based on self-supervised representations to bridge between text descriptions and music aud…

cs.CV2024★ 8 cited

Movie Gen: A Cast of Media Foundation Models

Adam Polyak, Amit Zohar, Andrew Brown +85

We present Movie Gen, a cast of foundation models that generates high-quality, 1080p HD videos with different aspect ratios and synchronized audio. We also show additional capabili…

eess.AS2024

Learning Fine-Grained Controllability on Speech Generation via Efficient Fine-Tuning

Chung-Ming Chien, Andros Tjandra, Apoorv Vyas +3

As the scale of generative models continues to grow, efficient reuse and adaptation of pre-trained models have become crucial considerations. In this work, we propose Voicebox Adap…

cs.SD2023★ 5 cited

Audiobox: Unified Audio Generation with Natural Language Prompts

Apoorv Vyas, Bowen Shi, Matthew Le +21

Audio is an essential part of our life, but creating it often requires expertise and is time-consuming. Research communities have made great progress over the past year advancing t…

eess.AS2023

Generative Pre-training for Speech with Flow Matching

Alexander H. Liu, Matt Le, Apoorv Vyas +3

Generative models have gained more and more attention in recent years for their remarkable success in tasks that required estimating and sampling data distribution to generate high…

eess.AS2023★ 45 cited

Voicebox: Text-Guided Multilingual Universal Speech Generation at Scale

Matthew Le, Apoorv Vyas, Bowen Shi +8

Large-scale generative models such as GPT and DALL-E have revolutionized the research community. These models not only generate high fidelity outputs, but are also generalists whic…

cs.CL2023★ 116 cited

Scaling Speech Technology to 1,000+ Languages

Vineel Pratap, Andros Tjandra, Bowen Shi +13

Expanding the language coverage of speech technology has the potential to improve access to information for many more people. However, current speech technology is restricted to ab…

cs.LG2022

On-demand compute reduction with stochastic wav2vec 2.0

Apoorv Vyas, Wei-Ning Hsu, Michael Auli +1

Squeeze and Efficient Wav2vec (SEW) is a recently proposed architecture that squeezes the input to the transformer encoder for compute efficient pre-training and inference with wav…

cs.SD2021

Comparing CTC and LFMMI for out-of-domain adaptation of wav2vec 2.0 acoustic model

Apoorv Vyas, Srikanth Madikeri, Hervé Bourlard

In this work, we investigate if the wav2vec 2.0 self-supervised pretraining helps mitigate the overfitting issues with connectionist temporal classification (CTC) training to reduc…

cs.LG2020

Lattice-Free MMI Adaptation Of Self-Supervised Pretrained Acoustic Models

Apoorv Vyas, Srikanth Madikeri, Hervé Bourlard

In this work, we propose lattice-free MMI (LFMMI) for supervised adaptation of self-supervised pretrained acoustic model. We pretrain a Transformer model on thousand hours of untra…

eess.AS2020★ 5 cited

Pkwrap: a PyTorch Package for LF-MMI Training of Acoustic Models

Srikanth Madikeri, Sibo Tong, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez +3

We present a simple wrapper that is useful to train acoustic models in PyTorch using Kaldi's LF-MMI training framework. The wrapper, called pkwrap (short form of PyTorch kaldi wrap…

cs.LG2020★ 7 cited

Fast Transformers with Clustered Attention

Apoorv Vyas, Angelos Katharopoulos, François Fleuret

Transformers have been proven a successful model for a variety of tasks in sequence modeling. However, computing the attention matrix, which is their key component, has quadratic c…

cs.LG2020★ 310 cited

Transformers are RNNs: Fast Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention

Angelos Katharopoulos, Apoorv Vyas, Nikolaos Pappas +1

Transformers achieve remarkable performance in several tasks but due to their quadratic complexity, with respect to the input's length, they are prohibitively slow for very long se…

cs.LG2018★ 1 cited

Out-of-Distribution Detection Using an Ensemble of Self Supervised Leave-out Classifiers

Apoorv Vyas, Nataraj Jammalamadaka, Xia Zhu +3

As deep learning methods form a critical part in commercially important applications such as autonomous driving and medical diagnostics, it is important to reliably detect out-of-d…