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20202026
most citedAudrey: A Personalized Open-Domain Conversational Bot

6 citations · 15 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CL2026

Why Attend to Everything? Focus is the Key

Hengshuai Yao, Xing Chen, Ahmed Murtadha +8

Standard attention scales quadratically with sequence length. Efficient attention methods reduce this O(n^2) cost, but when retrofitted into pretrained models, they often degrade p…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

OWSM v3.1: Better and Faster Open Whisper-Style Speech Models based on E-Branchformer

Yifan Peng, Jinchuan Tian, William Chen +9

Recent studies have highlighted the importance of fully open foundation models. The Open Whisper-style Speech Model (OWSM) is an initial step towards reproducing OpenAI Whisper usi…

cs.CL2023

Reproducing Whisper-Style Training Using an Open-Source Toolkit and Publicly Available Data

Yifan Peng, Jinchuan Tian, Brian Yan +13

Pre-training speech models on large volumes of data has achieved remarkable success. OpenAI Whisper is a multilingual multitask model trained on 680k hours of supervised speech dat…

cs.CL2023

Joint Prediction and Denoising for Large-scale Multilingual Self-supervised Learning

William Chen, Jiatong Shi, Brian Yan +6

Multilingual self-supervised learning (SSL) has often lagged behind state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods due to the expenses and complexity required to handle many languages. This furth…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Reducing Barriers to Self-Supervised Learning: HuBERT Pre-training with Academic Compute

William Chen, Xuankai Chang, Yifan Peng +3

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has led to great strides in speech processing. However, the resources needed to train these models has become prohibitively large as they continue to…

eess.AS2023

A New Benchmark of Aphasia Speech Recognition and Detection Based on E-Branchformer and Multi-task Learning

Jiyang Tang, William Chen, Xuankai Chang +2

Aphasia is a language disorder that affects the speaking ability of millions of patients. This paper presents a new benchmark for Aphasia speech recognition and detection tasks usi…