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257 citations · 415 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM2026

Optimal Design of Shaped Pupil Lyot Coronagraph for China's Large Segmented Telescope

Kaining Yang, He Sun, Bin B. Ren +7

China's next-generation large telescopes, such as the Expandable Aperture Segmented Telescope (EAST) and the Large Optical/Infrared Telescope (LOT), are being planned as flagship f…

cs.CL2026

Large Language Continuous Diffusion Models

Zhihan Yang, Wei Guo, Jean-Marie Lemercier +14

Despite the success of discrete diffusion language models (dLMs) for fast parallel decoding, their non-smooth, high-dimensional space hinders trajectory steering for reasoning and…

cs.LG2026

DiLaDiff: Distilled Latent-Augmented Diffusion for Language Modeling

Jean-Marie Lemercier, Tomas Geffner, Karsten Kreis +3

Diffusion language models intrinsically fail to capture correlations between decoded tokens, which leads to a harsh trade-off between sampling quality and throughput. To solve this…

cs.LG2026

Scaling Beyond Masked Diffusion Language Models

Subham Sekhar Sahoo, Jean-Marie Lemercier, Zhihan Yang +4

Diffusion language models are a promising alternative to autoregressive models due to their potential for faster generation. Among discrete diffusion approaches, Masked diffusion c…

eess.AS2025

Discrete Diffusion for Generative Modeling of Text-Aligned Speech Tokens

Pin-Jui Ku, He Huang, Jean-Marie Lemercier +3

This paper introduces a discrete diffusion model (DDM) framework for text-aligned speech tokenization and reconstruction. By replacing the auto-regressive speech decoder with a dis…

eess.AS2024

HRTF Estimation using a Score-based Prior

Etienne Thuillier, Jean-Marie Lemercier, Eloi Moliner +2

We present a head-related transfer function (HRTF) estimation method which relies on a data-driven prior given by a score-based diffusion model. The HRTF is estimated in reverberan…

eess.AS2024

Non-intrusive Speech Quality Assessment with Diffusion Models Trained on Clean Speech

Danilo de Oliveira, Julius Richter, Jean-Marie Lemercier +2

Diffusion models have found great success in generating high quality, natural samples of speech, but their potential for density estimation for speech has so far remained largely u…

eess.AS2024

Unsupervised Blind Joint Dereverberation and Room Acoustics Estimation with Diffusion Models

Jean-Marie Lemercier, Eloi Moliner, Simon Welker +2

This paper presents an unsupervised method for single-channel blind dereverberation and room impulse response (RIR) estimation, called BUDDy. The algorithm is rooted in Bayesian po…

cs.SD2024

An Independence-promoting Loss for Music Generation with Language Models

Jean-Marie Lemercier, Simon Rouard, Jade Copet +2

Music generation schemes using language modeling rely on a vocabulary of audio tokens, generally provided as codes in a discrete latent space learnt by an auto-encoder. Multi-stage…

eess.AS2024

BUDDy: Single-Channel Blind Unsupervised Dereverberation with Diffusion Models

Eloi Moliner, Jean-Marie Lemercier, Simon Welker +2

In this paper, we present an unsupervised single-channel method for joint blind dereverberation and room impulse response estimation, based on posterior sampling with diffusion mod…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

Diffusion Models for Audio Restoration

Jean-Marie Lemercier, Julius Richter, Simon Welker +3

With the development of audio playback devices and fast data transmission, the demand for high sound quality is rising for both entertainment and communications. In this quest for…

eess.AS2023

Single and Few-step Diffusion for Generative Speech Enhancement

Bunlong Lay, Jean-Marie Lemercier, Julius Richter +1

Diffusion models have shown promising results in speech enhancement, using a task-adapted diffusion process for the conditional generation of clean speech given a noisy mixture. Ho…

eess.AS2023

Diffusion Posterior Sampling for Informed Single-Channel Dereverberation

Jean-Marie Lemercier, Simon Welker, Timo Gerkmann

We present in this paper an informed single-channel dereverberation method based on conditional generation with diffusion models. With knowledge of the room impulse response, the a…

eess.AS2023

On the Behavior of Intrusive and Non-intrusive Speech Enhancement Metrics in Predictive and Generative Settings

Danilo de Oliveira, Julius Richter, Jean-Marie Lemercier +2

Since its inception, the field of deep speech enhancement has been dominated by predictive (discriminative) approaches, such as spectral mapping or masking. Recently, however, nove…

eess.AS2023

Wind Noise Reduction with a Diffusion-based Stochastic Regeneration Model

Jean-Marie Lemercier, Joachim Thiemann, Raphael Koning +1

In this paper we present a method for single-channel wind noise reduction using our previously proposed diffusion-based stochastic regeneration model combining predictive and gener…

eess.AS2023

Speech Signal Improvement Using Causal Generative Diffusion Models

Julius Richter, Simon Welker, Jean-Marie Lemercier +3

In this paper, we present a causal speech signal improvement system that is designed to handle different types of distortions. The method is based on a generative diffusion model w…

eess.AS2023

Extending DNN-based Multiplicative Masking to Deep Subband Filtering for Improved Dereverberation

Jean-Marie Lemercier, Julian Tobergte, Timo Gerkmann

In this paper, we present a scheme for extending deep neural network-based multiplicative maskers to deep subband filters for speech restoration in the time-frequency domain. The r…

eess.AS2022★ 125 cited

StoRM: A Diffusion-based Stochastic Regeneration Model for Speech Enhancement and Dereverberation

Jean-Marie Lemercier, Julius Richter, Simon Welker +1

Diffusion models have shown a great ability at bridging the performance gap between predictive and generative approaches for speech enhancement. We have shown that they may even ou…

eess.AS2022★ 3 cited

Analysing Diffusion-based Generative Approaches versus Discriminative Approaches for Speech Restoration

Jean-Marie Lemercier, Julius Richter, Simon Welker +1

Diffusion-based generative models have had a high impact on the computer vision and speech processing communities these past years. Besides data generation tasks, they have also be…

eess.AS2022★ 257 cited

Speech Enhancement and Dereverberation with Diffusion-based Generative Models

Julius Richter, Simon Welker, Jean-Marie Lemercier +2

In this work, we build upon our previous publication and use diffusion-based generative models for speech enhancement. We present a detailed overview of the diffusion process that…

eess.AS2022

Customizable End-to-end Optimization of Online Neural Network-supported Dereverberation for Hearing Devices

Jean-Marie Lemercier, Joachim Thiemann, Raphael Koning +1

This work focuses on online dereverberation for hearing devices using the weighted prediction error (WPE) algorithm. WPE filtering requires an estimate of the target speech power s…

eess.AS2022★ 7 cited

A neural network-supported two-stage algorithm for lightweight dereverberation on hearing devices

Jean-Marie Lemercier, Joachim Thiemann, Raphael Koning +1

A two-stage lightweight online dereverberation algorithm for hearing devices is presented in this paper. The approach combines a multi-channel multi-frame linear filter with a sing…

eess.AS2022

Neural Network-augmented Kalman Filtering for Robust Online Speech Dereverberation in Noisy Reverberant Environments

Jean-Marie Lemercier, Joachim Thiemann, Raphael Koning +1

In this paper, a neural network-augmented algorithm for noise-robust online dereverberation with a Kalman filtering variant of the weighted prediction error (WPE) method is propose…

cs.SD2021★ 22 cited

Speech Separation Using an Asynchronous Fully Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network

Xiaolin Hu, Kai Li, Weiyi Zhang +3

Recent advances in the design of neural network architectures, in particular those specialized in modeling sequences, have provided significant improvements in speech separation pe…