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most citedListen and Speak Fairly: A Study on Semantic Gender Bias in Speech Integrated Large Language Models

7 citations · 18 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

eess.AS2026

CAAD: Contrastive Audio-Aware Distillation for Efficient Speech Language Models

Chun-Wei Chen, Tzu-Quan Lin, Ke-Han Lu +2

Speech Language Models achieve reasoning capabilities, but are often hindered by massive parameter counts and a tendency to prioritize linguistic priors over acoustic features. Whi…

cs.SD2026

How Contrastive Decoding Enhances Large Audio Language Models

Tzu-Quan Lin, Wei-Ping Huang, Yi-Cheng Lin +1

While Contrastive Decoding (CD) has been proposed to enhance Large Audio Language Models (LALMs), it has not been evaluated at scale, and the underlying mechanisms driving its succ…

eess.AS2026

AdaLTM: Adaptive Layer-wise Task Vector Merging for Categorical Speech Emotion Recognition with ASR Knowledge Integration

Chia-Yu Lee, Huang-Cheng Chou, Tzu-Quan Lin +4

Integrating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) into Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) enhances modeling by providing linguistic context. However, conventional feature fusion faces p…

eess.AS2025

Pseudo2Real: Task Arithmetic for Pseudo-Label Correction in Automatic Speech Recognition

Yi-Cheng Lin, Yu-Hsuan Li Liang, Hsuan Su +4

Robust ASR under domain shift is crucial because real-world systems encounter unseen accents and domains with limited labeled data. Although pseudo-labeling offers a practical work…

eess.AS2025

DeSTA2.5-Audio: Toward General-Purpose Large Audio Language Model with Self-Generated Cross-Modal Alignment

Ke-Han Lu, Zhehuai Chen, Szu-Wei Fu +25

We introduce DeSTA2.5-Audio, a general-purpose Large Audio Language Model (LALM) designed for robust auditory perception and instruction-following. Recent LALMs augment Large Langu…

cs.CL2025

Identifying Speaker Information in Feed-Forward Layers of Self-Supervised Speech Transformers

Tzu-Quan Lin, Hsi-Chun Cheng, Hung-yi Lee +1

In recent years, the impact of self-supervised speech Transformers has extended to speaker-related applications. However, little research has explored how these models encode speak…

cs.CL2025

An Exploration of Mamba for Speech Self-Supervised Models

Tzu-Quan Lin, Heng-Cheng Kuo, Tzu-Chieh Wei +5

While Mamba has demonstrated strong performance in language modeling, its potential as a speech self-supervised learning (SSL) model remains underexplored, with prior studies limit…

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

Speech-FT: Merging Pre-trained And Fine-Tuned Speech Representation Models For Cross-Task Generalization

Tzu-Quan Lin, Wei-Ping Huang, Hao Tang +1

Fine-tuning speech representation models can enhance performance on specific tasks but often compromises their cross-task generalization ability. This degradation is often caused b…

cs.CL2024

Building a Taiwanese Mandarin Spoken Language Model: A First Attempt

Chih-Kai Yang, Yu-Kuan Fu, Chen-An Li +18

This technical report presents our initial attempt to build a spoken large language model (LLM) for Taiwanese Mandarin, specifically tailored to enable real-time, speech-to-speech…

cs.CL2024

Dynamic-SUPERB Phase-2: A Collaboratively Expanding Benchmark for Measuring the Capabilities of Spoken Language Models with 180 Tasks

Chien-yu Huang, Wei-Chih Chen, Shu-wen Yang +77

Multimodal foundation models, such as Gemini and ChatGPT, have revolutionized human-machine interactions by seamlessly integrating various forms of data. Developing a universal spo…

eess.AS2024

Property Neurons in Self-Supervised Speech Transformers

Tzu-Quan Lin, Guan-Ting Lin, Hung-yi Lee +1

There have been many studies on analyzing self-supervised speech Transformers, in particular, with layer-wise analysis. It is, however, desirable to have an approach that can pinpo…

eess.AS2024★ 7 cited

Listen and Speak Fairly: A Study on Semantic Gender Bias in Speech Integrated Large Language Models

Yi-Cheng Lin, Tzu-Quan Lin, Chih-Kai Yang +4

Speech Integrated Large Language Models (SILLMs) combine large language models with speech perception to perform diverse tasks, such as emotion recognition to speaker verification,…

cs.SD2024

DAISY: Data Adaptive Self-Supervised Early Exit for Speech Representation Models

Tzu-Quan Lin, Hung-yi Lee, Hao Tang

Self-supervised speech models have shown to be useful for various tasks, but their large size limits the use in devices with low computing power and memory. In this work, we explor…

eess.AS2024★ 6 cited

On the social bias of speech self-supervised models

Yi-Cheng Lin, Tzu-Quan Lin, Hsi-Che Lin +2

Self-supervised learning (SSL) speech models have achieved remarkable performance in various tasks, yet the biased outcomes, especially affecting marginalized groups, raise signifi…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Is Smaller Always Faster? Tradeoffs in Compressing Self-Supervised Speech Transformers

Tzu-Quan Lin, Tsung-Huan Yang, Chun-Yao Chang +4

Transformer-based self-supervised models have achieved remarkable success in speech processing, but their large size and high inference cost present significant challenges for real…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

MelHuBERT: A simplified HuBERT on Mel spectrograms

Tzu-Quan Lin, Hung-yi Lee, Hao Tang

Self-supervised models have had great success in learning speech representations that can generalize to various downstream tasks. However, most self-supervised models require a lar…

cs.CL2022

SUPERB @ SLT 2022: Challenge on Generalization and Efficiency of Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning

Tzu-hsun Feng, Annie Dong, Ching-Feng Yeh +11

We present the SUPERB challenge at SLT 2022, which aims at learning self-supervised speech representation for better performance, generalization, and efficiency. The challenge buil…