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most citedLearning Audio-Visual Speech Representation by Masked Multimodal Cluster Prediction

113 citations · 237 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2026

Linguistically Informed Evaluation of Multilingual ASR for African Languages

Fei-Yueh Chen, Lateef Adeleke, C. M. Downey

Word Error Rate (WER) mischaracterizes ASR models' performance for African languages by combining phonological, tone, and other linguistic errors into a single lexical error. By co…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2024

DM-Codec: Distilling Multimodal Representations for Speech Tokenization

Md Mubtasim Ahasan, Md Fahim, Tasnim Mohiuddin +6

Recent advancements in speech-language models have yielded significant improvements in speech tokenization and synthesis. However, effectively mapping the complex, multidimensional…

cs.AI2024

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…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

A Large-Scale Evaluation of Speech Foundation Models

Shu-wen Yang, Heng-Jui Chang, Zili Huang +18

The foundation model paradigm leverages a shared foundation model to achieve state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance for various tasks, requiring minimal downstream-specific modeling a…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

SUPERB-SG: Enhanced Speech processing Universal PERformance Benchmark for Semantic and Generative Capabilities

Hsiang-Sheng Tsai, Heng-Jui Chang, Wen-Chin Huang +14

Transfer learning has proven to be crucial in advancing the state of speech and natural language processing research in recent years. In speech, a model pre-trained by self-supervi…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

textless-lib: a Library for Textless Spoken Language Processing

Eugene Kharitonov, Jade Copet, Kushal Lakhotia +8

Textless spoken language processing research aims to extend the applicability of standard NLP toolset onto spoken language and languages with few or no textual resources. In this p…

eess.AS2022★ 113 cited

Learning Audio-Visual Speech Representation by Masked Multimodal Cluster Prediction

Bowen Shi, Wei-Ning Hsu, Kushal Lakhotia +1

Video recordings of speech contain correlated audio and visual information, providing a strong signal for speech representation learning from the speaker's lip movements and the pr…

cs.CL2021

XLS-R: Self-supervised Cross-lingual Speech Representation Learning at Scale

Arun Babu, Changhan Wang, Andros Tjandra +10

This paper presents XLS-R, a large-scale model for cross-lingual speech representation learning based on wav2vec 2.0. We train models with up to 2B parameters on nearly half a mill…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Salient Phrase Aware Dense Retrieval: Can a Dense Retriever Imitate a Sparse One?

Xilun Chen, Kushal Lakhotia, Barlas Oğuz +6

Despite their recent popularity and well-known advantages, dense retrievers still lag behind sparse methods such as BM25 in their ability to reliably match salient phrases and rare…

cs.CL2021★ 16 cited

Text-Free Prosody-Aware Generative Spoken Language Modeling

Eugene Kharitonov, Ann Lee, Adam Polyak +8

Speech pre-training has primarily demonstrated efficacy on classification tasks, while its capability of generating novel speech, similar to how GPT-2 can generate coherent paragra…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Domain-matched Pre-training Tasks for Dense Retrieval

Barlas Oğuz, Kushal Lakhotia, Anchit Gupta +8

Pre-training on larger datasets with ever increasing model size is now a proven recipe for increased performance across almost all NLP tasks. A notable exception is information ret…

cs.CL2021★ 27 cited

HuBERT: Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning by Masked Prediction of Hidden Units

Wei-Ning Hsu, Benjamin Bolte, Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai +3

Self-supervised approaches for speech representation learning are challenged by three unique problems: (1) there are multiple sound units in each input utterance, (2) there is no l…

cs.CL2021★ 53 cited

SUPERB: Speech processing Universal PERformance Benchmark

Shu-wen Yang, Po-Han Chi, Yung-Sung Chuang +17

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has proven vital for advancing research in natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). The paradigm pretrains a shared model on large…

cs.SD2021★ 1 cited

Speech Resynthesis from Discrete Disentangled Self-Supervised Representations

Adam Polyak, Yossi Adi, Jade Copet +5

We propose using self-supervised discrete representations for the task of speech resynthesis. To generate disentangled representation, we separately extract low-bitrate representat…

cs.CL2021

Generative Spoken Language Modeling from Raw Audio

Kushal Lakhotia, Evgeny Kharitonov, Wei-Ning Hsu +8

We introduce Generative Spoken Language Modeling, the task of learning the acoustic and linguistic characteristics of a language from raw audio (no text, no labels), and a set of m…

cs.CL2020

FiD-Ex: Improving Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Extractive Rationale Generation

Kushal Lakhotia, Bhargavi Paranjape, Asish Ghoshal +3

Natural language (NL) explanations of model predictions are gaining popularity as a means to understand and verify decisions made by large black-box pre-trained models, for NLP tas…

cs.CL2018★ 16 cited

PyText: A Seamless Path from NLP research to production

Ahmed Aly, Kushal Lakhotia, Shicong Zhao +7

We introduce PyText - a deep learning based NLP modeling framework built on PyTorch. PyText addresses the often-conflicting requirements of enabling rapid experimentation and of se…