7 papers
Compress the Cache, Not the Speech Embedding: KV Compression for Efficient Speech LLMs
Ke-Han Lu, Keqi Deng, Ruchao Fan +2
Speech large language models (Speech LLMs) typically encode speech into sequences far longer than text, creating a major efficiency bottleneck during autoregressive decoding. A com…
Rethinking Speech-LLM Integration for ASR: Effective Joint Speech-Text Training by Interleaving
Ruchao Fan, Yiming Wang, Rui Zhao +10
Speech-LLM integration has shown promising results by leveraging extensive textual pretraining, yet its specific benefits for automatic speech recognition (ASR) remain unclear. We…
Reasoning Matters: Mitigate Hallucination in Multimodal Large Reasoning Models via Reasoning-Conditioned Preference Optimization
Jiawei Kong, Hao Fang, Shunxiang Liao +5
Multimodal Large Reasoning Models introduce the reasoning paradigm, demonstrating strong capabilities on complex vision-language tasks. However, they still suffer from severe hallu…
UNIQUE: Universal Top-k Sparse Attention for Training-free Inference and Sparsity-aware Training
Keqi Deng, Shaoshi Ling, Ruchao Fan +1
Long-context inference in large language models (LLMs) is bottlenecked by the linear growth of the self-attention key-value (KV) cache. Top-k sparse attention alleviates this by lo…
Speech LLMs are Contextual Reasoning Transcribers
Keqi Deng, Ruchao Fan, Bo Ren +2
Despite extensions to speech inputs, effectively leveraging the rich knowledge and contextual understanding of large language models (LLMs) in automatic speech recognition (ASR) re…
Train Short, Infer Long: Speech-LLM Enables Zero-Shot Streamable Joint ASR and Diarization on Long Audio
Mohan Shi, Xiong Xiao, Ruchao Fan +2
Joint automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speaker diarization aim to answer the question "who spoke what" in multi-speaker scenarios. In this paper, we present an end-to-end spe…