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CT: Counterfactual Causal Reasoning for Sentiment Shifts in Social-Media Conversation Trees
S M Rafiuddin, Atriya Sen
Sentiment in social-media threads does not only vary across posts; it shifts as users react to claims, corrections, evidence, and hostility within a branching reply tree. We study…
MELD: Mel-Spectrogram-Based Speech Language Modeling with Discrete Latent Variables
Sung-Lin Yeh, Wei Zhou, Gil Keren +6
Recent speech language models rely on encoders that are optimized separately from autoregressive models. Since these encoders are unaware of the downstream objectives, the extracte…
Gender Bias in MT for a Genderless Language: New Benchmarks for Basque
Amaia Murillo, Olatz-Perez-de-Viñaspre, Naiara Perez
Large language models (LLMs) and machine translation (MT) systems are increasingly used in our daily lives, but their outputs can reproduce gender bias present in the training data…
The Llama 4 Herd: Architecture, Training, Evaluation, and Deployment Notes
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This document consolidates publicly reported technical details about Metas Llama 4 model family. It summarizes (i) released variants (Scout and Maverick) and the broader herd conte…
Can Speech LLMs Think while Listening?
Yi-Jen Shih, Desh Raj, Chunyang Wu +6
Recent advances in speech large language models (speech LLMs) have enabled seamless spoken interactions, but these systems still struggle with complex reasoning tasks. Previously,…
From KMMLU-Redux to KMMLU-Pro: A Professional Korean Benchmark Suite for LLM Evaluation
Seokhee Hong, Sunkyoung Kim, Guijin Son +3
The development of Large Language Models (LLMs) requires robust benchmarks that encompass not only academic domains but also industrial fields to effectively evaluate their applica…
Balancing Knowledge Delivery and Emotional Comfort in Healthcare Conversational Systems
Shang-Chi Tsai, Yun-Nung Chen
With the advancement of large language models, many dialogue systems are now capable of providing reasonable and informative responses to patients' medical conditions. However, whe…
Dialect Normalization using Large Language Models and Morphological Rules
Antonios Dimakis, John Pavlopoulos, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Natural language understanding systems struggle with low-resource languages, including many dialects of high-resource ones. Dialect-to-standard normalization attempts to tackle thi…
Jailbreak Distillation: Renewable Safety Benchmarking
Jingyu Zhang, Ahmed Elgohary, Xiawei Wang +5
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly deployed in critical applications, raising urgent needs for robust safety benchmarking. We propose Jailbreak Distillation (JBDistill), a no…
ZeroSumEval: An Extensible Framework For Scaling LLM Evaluation with Inter-Model Competition
Hisham A. Alyahya, Haidar Khan, Yazeed Alnumay +2
We introduce ZeroSumEval, a dynamic, competition-based, and evolving evaluation framework for Large Language Models (LLMs) that leverages competitive games. ZeroSumEval encompasses…
SEA-LION: Southeast Asian Languages in One Network
Raymond Ng, Thanh Ngan Nguyen, Yuli Huang +28
Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have dominated much of the artificial intelligence scene with their ability to process and generate natural languages. However, the majority…
Multilingual Machine Translation with Open Large Language Models at Practical Scale: An Empirical Study
Menglong Cui, Pengzhi Gao, Wei Liu +2
Large language models (LLMs) have shown continuously improving multilingual capabilities, and even small-scale open-source models have demonstrated rapid performance enhancement. I…
CJST: CTC Compressor based Joint Speech and Text Training for Decoder-Only ASR
Wei Zhou, Junteng Jia, Leda Sari +2
CTC compressor can be an effective approach to integrate audio encoders to decoder-only models, which has gained growing interest for different speech applications. In this work, w…
LLäMmlein: Transparent, Compact and Competitive German-Only Language Models from Scratch
Jan Pfister, Julia Wunderle, Andreas Hotho
We create two German-only decoder models, LLäMmlein 120M and 1B, transparently from scratch and publish them, along with the training data, for the German NLP research community to…
Efficient Streaming LLM for Speech Recognition
Junteng Jia, Gil Keren, Wei Zhou +6
Recent works have shown that prompting large language models with audio encodings can unlock speech recognition capabilities. However, existing techniques do not scale efficiently,…
Frozen Large Language Models Can Perceive Paralinguistic Aspects of Speech
Wonjune Kang, Junteng Jia, Chunyang Wu +8
This work studies the capabilities of a large language model (LLM) to understand paralinguistic aspects of speech without fine-tuning its weights. We utilize an end-to-end system w…
M-BEST-RQ: A Multi-Channel Speech Foundation Model for Smart Glasses
Yufeng Yang, Desh Raj, Ju Lin +8
The growing popularity of multi-channel wearable devices, such as smart glasses, has led to a surge of applications such as targeted speech recognition and enhanced hearing. Howeve…
Faster Speech-LLaMA Inference with Multi-token Prediction
Desh Raj, Gil Keren, Junteng Jia +2
Large language models (LLMs) have become proficient at solving a wide variety of tasks, including those involving multi-modal inputs. In particular, instantiating an LLM (such as L…
Towards scalable efficient on-device ASR with transfer learning
Laxmi Pandey, Ke Li, Jinxi Guo +4
Multilingual pretraining for transfer learning significantly boosts the robustness of low-resource monolingual ASR models. This study systematically investigates three main aspects…
The Llama 3 Herd of Models
Aaron Grattafiori, Abhimanyu Dubey, Abhinav Jauhri +556
Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems are powered by foundation models. This paper presents a new set of foundation models, called Llama 3. It is a herd of language models th…
Effective internal language model training and fusion for factorized transducer model
Jinxi Guo, Niko Moritz, Yingyi Ma +6
The internal language model (ILM) of the neural transducer has been widely studied. In most prior work, it is mainly used for estimating the ILM score and is subsequently subtracte…
AudioChatLlama: Towards General-Purpose Speech Abilities for LLMs
Yassir Fathullah, Chunyang Wu, Egor Lakomkin +7
In this work, we extend the instruction-tuned Llama-2 model with end-to-end general-purpose speech processing and reasoning abilities while maintaining the wide range of original L…
Dynamic ASR Pathways: An Adaptive Masking Approach Towards Efficient Pruning of A Multilingual ASR Model
Jiamin Xie, Ke Li, Jinxi Guo +7
Neural network pruning offers an effective method for compressing a multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) model with minimal performance loss. However, it entails several…
TODM: Train Once Deploy Many Efficient Supernet-Based RNN-T Compression For On-device ASR Models
Yuan Shangguan, Haichuan Yang, Danni Li +11
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models need to be optimized for specific hardware before they can be deployed on devices. This can be done by tuning the model's hyperparameters…