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

13 citations · 33 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.CL2026

BayLing-Duplex: Native Full-Duplex Speech Dialogue with a Single Autoregressive LLM

Qingkai Fang, Shoutao Guo, Yang Feng

Real-time, full-duplex speech interaction is a key feature of next-generation spoken chatbots, allowing the model to listen and speak at the same time and to handle natural phenome…

cs.CL2026

Efficient Training for Cross-lingual Speech Language Models

Yan Zhou, Qingkai Fang, Yun Hong +1

Currently, large language models (LLMs) predominantly focus on the text modality. To enable more natural human-AI interaction, speech LLMs are emerging, but building effective end-…

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.AI2025★ 1 cited

Stream-Omni: Simultaneous Multimodal Interactions with Large Language-Vision-Speech Model

Shaolei Zhang, Shoutao Guo, Qingkai Fang +2

The emergence of GPT-4o-like large multimodal models (LMMs) has raised the exploration of integrating text, vision, and speech modalities to support more flexible multimodal intera…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

LLaMA-Omni2: LLM-based Real-time Spoken Chatbot with Autoregressive Streaming Speech Synthesis

Qingkai Fang, Yan Zhou, Shoutao Guo +2

Real-time, intelligent, and natural speech interaction is an essential part of the next-generation human-computer interaction. Recent advancements have showcased the potential of b…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

LLaVA-Mini: Efficient Image and Video Large Multimodal Models with One Vision Token

Shaolei Zhang, Qingkai Fang, Zhe Yang +1

The advent of real-time large multimodal models (LMMs) like GPT-4o has sparked considerable interest in efficient LMMs. LMM frameworks typically encode visual inputs into vision to…

cs.CL2024

BayLing 2: A Multilingual Large Language Model with Efficient Language Alignment

Shaolei Zhang, Kehao Zhang, Qingkai Fang +4

Large language models (LLMs), with their powerful generative capabilities and vast knowledge, empower various tasks in everyday life. However, these abilities are primarily concent…

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

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.CV2023

Bridging the Gap between Synthetic and Authentic Images for Multimodal Machine Translation

Wenyu Guo, Qingkai Fang, Dong Yu +1

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) simultaneously takes the source sentence and a relevant image as input for translation. Since there is no paired image available for the input…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

DASpeech: Directed Acyclic Transformer for Fast and High-quality Speech-to-Speech Translation

Qingkai Fang, Yan Zhou, Yang Feng

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) translates speech from one language into another using a single model. However, due to the presence of linguistic and acoustic diversity,…

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★ 1 cited

CMOT: Cross-modal Mixup via Optimal Transport for Speech Translation

Yan Zhou, Qingkai Fang, Yang Feng

End-to-end speech translation (ST) is the task of translating speech signals in the source language into text in the target language. As a cross-modal task, end-to-end ST is diffic…

cs.CL2023

Back Translation for Speech-to-text Translation Without Transcripts

Qingkai Fang, Yang Feng

The success of end-to-end speech-to-text translation (ST) is often achieved by utilizing source transcripts, e.g., by pre-training with automatic speech recognition (ASR) and machi…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Understanding and Bridging the Modality Gap for Speech Translation

Qingkai Fang, Yang Feng

How to achieve better end-to-end speech translation (ST) by leveraging (text) machine translation (MT) data? Among various existing techniques, multi-task learning is one of the ef…

cs.CL2022

Low-resource Neural Machine Translation with Cross-modal Alignment

Zhe Yang, Qingkai Fang, Yang Feng

How to achieve neural machine translation with limited parallel data? Existing techniques often rely on large-scale monolingual corpora, which is impractical for some low-resource…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

STEMM: Self-learning with Speech-text Manifold Mixup for Speech Translation

Qingkai Fang, Rong Ye, Lei Li +2

How to learn a better speech representation for end-to-end speech-to-text translation (ST) with limited labeled data? Existing techniques often attempt to transfer powerful machine…

cs.CL2022

Neural Machine Translation with Phrase-Level Universal Visual Representations

Qingkai Fang, Yang Feng

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) aims to improve neural machine translation (NMT) with additional visual information, but most existing MMT methods require paired input of sour…