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most citedBayLing: Bridging Cross-lingual Alignment and Instruction Following through Interactive Translation for Large Language Models

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19 papers

cs.CL2025

FastLongSpeech: Enhancing Large Speech-Language Models for Efficient Long-Speech Processing

Shoutao Guo, Shaolei Zhang, Qingkai Fang +3

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has spurred significant progress in Large Speech-Language Models (LSLMs), enhancing their capabilities in both speech understa…

cs.CL2025

Efficient Speech Language Modeling via Energy Distance in Continuous Latent Space

Zhengrui Ma, Yang Feng, Chenze Shao +3

We introduce SLED, an alternative approach to speech language modeling by encoding speech waveforms into sequences of continuous latent representations and modeling them autoregres…

cs.CL2025

Large Language Models Are Read/Write Policy-Makers for Simultaneous Generation

Shoutao Guo, Shaolei Zhang, Zhengrui Ma +1

Simultaneous generation models write generation results while reading streaming inputs, necessitating a policy-maker to determine the appropriate output timing. Existing simultaneo…

cs.CL2024

Overcoming Non-monotonicity in Transducer-based Streaming Generation

Zhengrui Ma, Yang Feng, Min Zhang

Streaming generation models are utilized across fields, with the Transducer architecture being popular in industrial applications. However, its input-synchronous decoding mechanism…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

LLaMA-Omni: Seamless Speech Interaction with Large Language Models

Qingkai Fang, Shoutao Guo, Yan Zhou +3

Models like GPT-4o enable real-time interaction with large language models (LLMs) through speech, significantly enhancing user experience compared to traditional text-based interac…

cs.CL2024

Agent-SiMT: Agent-assisted Simultaneous Machine Translation with Large Language Models

Shoutao Guo, Shaolei Zhang, Zhengrui Ma +2

Simultaneous Machine Translation (SiMT) generates target translations while reading the source sentence. It relies on a policy to determine the optimal timing for reading sentences…

cs.CL2024

CTC-based Non-autoregressive Textless Speech-to-Speech Translation

Qingkai Fang, Zhengrui Ma, Yan Zhou +2

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has achieved impressive translation quality, but it often faces the challenge of slow decoding due to the considerable length of speech s…

cs.CL2024

Can We Achieve High-quality Direct Speech-to-Speech Translation without Parallel Speech Data?

Qingkai Fang, Shaolei Zhang, Zhengrui Ma +2

Recently proposed two-pass direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) models decompose the task into speech-to-text translation (S2TT) and text-to-speech (TTS) within an end-to-end…

cs.CL2024

StreamSpeech: Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation with Multi-task Learning

Shaolei Zhang, Qingkai Fang, Shoutao Guo +3

Simultaneous speech-to-speech translation (Simul-S2ST, a.k.a streaming speech translation) outputs target speech while receiving streaming speech inputs, which is critical for real…

cs.CL2024★ 6 cited

A Non-autoregressive Generation Framework for End-to-End Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation

Zhengrui Ma, Qingkai Fang, Shaolei Zhang +3

Simultaneous translation models play a crucial role in facilitating communication. However, existing research primarily focuses on text-to-text or speech-to-text models, necessitat…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

SiLLM: Large Language Models for Simultaneous Machine Translation

Shoutao Guo, Shaolei Zhang, Zhengrui Ma +2

Simultaneous Machine Translation (SiMT) generates translations while reading the source sentence, necessitating a policy to determine the optimal timing for reading and generating…

cs.CL2023★ 8 cited

Non-autoregressive Machine Translation with Probabilistic Context-free Grammar

Shangtong Gui, Chenze Shao, Zhengrui Ma +3

Non-autoregressive Transformer(NAT) significantly accelerates the inference of neural machine translation. However, conventional NAT models suffer from limited expression power and…

cs.CL2023

Beyond MLE: Convex Learning for Text Generation

Chenze Shao, Zhengrui Ma, Min Zhang +1

Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is a statistical method used to estimate the parameters of a probability distribution that best explain the observed data. In the context of tex…

cs.CL2023

Non-autoregressive Streaming Transformer for Simultaneous Translation

Zhengrui Ma, Shaolei Zhang, Shoutao Guo +3

Simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) models are trained to strike a balance between latency and translation quality. However, training these models to achieve high quality while…

cs.CL2023★ 13 cited

BayLing: Bridging Cross-lingual Alignment and Instruction Following through Interactive Translation for Large Language Models

Shaolei Zhang, Qingkai Fang, Zhuocheng Zhang +8

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable prowess in language understanding and generation. Advancing from foundation LLMs to instructionfollowing LLMs, instruction…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

Fuzzy Alignments in Directed Acyclic Graph for Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation

Zhengrui Ma, Chenze Shao, Shangtong Gui +2

Non-autoregressive translation (NAT) reduces the decoding latency but suffers from performance degradation due to the multi-modality problem. Recently, the structure of directed ac…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Viterbi Decoding of Directed Acyclic Transformer for Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation

Chenze Shao, Zhengrui Ma, Yang Feng

Non-autoregressive models achieve significant decoding speedup in neural machine translation but lack the ability to capture sequential dependency. Directed Acyclic Transformer (DA…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Smoothed Multi-View Subspace Clustering

Peng Chen, Liang Liu, Zhengrui Ma +1

In recent years, multi-view subspace clustering has achieved impressive performance due to the exploitation of complementary imformation across multiple views. However, multi-view…

cs.CV2021★ 7 cited

Towards Clustering-friendly Representations: Subspace Clustering via Graph Filtering

Zhengrui Ma, Zhao Kang, Guangchun Luo +1

Finding a suitable data representation for a specific task has been shown to be crucial in many applications. The success of subspace clustering depends on the assumption that the…