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SILA: Signal-to-Language Augmentation for Enhanced Control in Text-to-Audio Generation
Sonal Kumar, Prem Seetharaman, Justin Salamon +2
The field of text-to-audio generation has seen significant advancements, and yet the ability to finely control the acoustic characteristics of generated audio remains under-explore…
Towards a Systematic Evaluation of Hallucinations in Large-Vision Language Models
Ashish Seth, Dinesh Manocha, Chirag Agarwal
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in complex multimodal tasks. However, these models still suffer from hallucinations, particularly when…
Immune: Improving Safety Against Jailbreaks in Multi-modal LLMs via Inference-Time Alignment
Soumya Suvra Ghosal, Souradip Chakraborty, Vaibhav Singh +7
With the widespread deployment of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for visual-reasoning tasks, improving their safety has become crucial. Recent research indicates that des…
MMAU: A Massive Multi-Task Audio Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark
S Sakshi, Utkarsh Tyagi, Sonal Kumar +6
The ability to comprehend audio--which includes speech, non-speech sounds, and music--is crucial for AI agents to interact effectively with the world. We present MMAU, a novel benc…
PAT: Parameter-Free Audio-Text Aligner to Boost Zero-Shot Audio Classification
Ashish Seth, Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, Sonal Kumar +2
Audio-Language Models (ALMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in zero-shot audio classification. In this paper, we introduce PAT (Parameter-free Audio-Text aligner), a simp…
Failing Forward: Improving Generative Error Correction for ASR with Synthetic Data and Retrieval Augmentation
Sreyan Ghosh, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Michael Levit +4
Generative Error Correction (GEC) has emerged as a powerful post-processing method to enhance the performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. However, we show that G…
EH-MAM: Easy-to-Hard Masked Acoustic Modeling for Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning
Ashish Seth, Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, S Sakshi +3
In this paper, we present EH-MAM (Easy-to-Hard adaptive Masked Acoustic Modeling), a novel self-supervised learning approach for speech representation learning. In contrast to the…
Do Audio-Language Models Understand Linguistic Variations?
Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, Sonal Kumar, Hemant Kumar Giri +4
Open-vocabulary audio language models (ALMs), like Contrastive Language Audio Pretraining (CLAP), represent a promising new paradigm for audio-text retrieval using natural language…
Code Comprehension then Auditing for Unsupervised LLM Evaluation
Bhrij Patel, Souradip Chakraborty, Mengdi Wang +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) for unsupervised code correctness evaluation have recently gained attention because they can judge if code runs as intended without requiring reference…
Synthio: Augmenting Small-Scale Audio Classification Datasets with Synthetic Data
Sreyan Ghosh, Sonal Kumar, Zhifeng Kong +3
We present Synthio, a novel approach for augmenting small-scale audio classification datasets with synthetic data. Our goal is to improve audio classification accuracy with limited…
ReCLAP: Improving Zero Shot Audio Classification by Describing Sounds
Sreyan Ghosh, Sonal Kumar, Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru +3
Open-vocabulary audio-language models, like CLAP, offer a promising approach for zero-shot audio classification (ZSAC) by enabling classification with any arbitrary set of categori…
GAMA: A Large Audio-Language Model with Advanced Audio Understanding and Complex Reasoning Abilities
Sreyan Ghosh, Sonal Kumar, Ashish Seth +6
Perceiving and understanding non-speech sounds and non-verbal speech is essential to making decisions that help us interact with our surroundings. In this paper, we propose GAMA, a…
LipGER: Visually-Conditioned Generative Error Correction for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition
Sreyan Ghosh, Sonal Kumar, Ashish Seth +4
Visual cues, like lip motion, have been shown to improve the performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems in noisy environments. We propose LipGER (Lip Motion aided Ge…
ABEX: Data Augmentation for Low-Resource NLU via Expanding Abstract Descriptions
Sreyan Ghosh, Utkarsh Tyagi, Sonal Kumar +4
We present ABEX, a novel and effective generative data augmentation methodology for low-resource Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks. ABEX is based on ABstract-and-EXpand, a…
Transfer Q Star: Principled Decoding for LLM Alignment
Souradip Chakraborty, Soumya Suvra Ghosal, Ming Yin +4
Aligning foundation models is essential for their safe and trustworthy deployment. However, traditional fine-tuning methods are computationally intensive and require updating billi…
Visual Description Grounding Reduces Hallucinations and Boosts Reasoning in LVLMs
Sreyan Ghosh, Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru, Sonal Kumar +4
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) often produce responses that misalign with factual information, a phenomenon known as hallucinations. While hallucinations are well-studied, th…
Do Vision-Language Models Understand Compound Nouns?
Sonal Kumar, Sreyan Ghosh, S Sakshi +2
Open-vocabulary vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP, trained using contrastive loss, have emerged as a promising new paradigm for text-to-image retrieval. However, do VLMs unde…
CoDa: Constrained Generation based Data Augmentation for Low-Resource NLP
Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru, Sreyan Ghosh, Sonal Kumar +3
We present CoDa (Constrained Generation based Data Augmentation), a controllable, effective, and training-free data augmentation technique for low-resource (data-scarce) NLP. Our a…
Towards Global Optimality for Practical Average Reward Reinforcement Learning without Mixing Time Oracles
Bhrij Patel, Wesley A. Suttle, Alec Koppel +4
In the context of average-reward reinforcement learning, the requirement for oracle knowledge of the mixing time, a measure of the duration a Markov chain under a fixed policy need…
Personalized Embodied Navigation for Portable Object Finding
Vishnu Sashank Dorbala, Bhrij Patel, Amrit Singh Bedi +1
Embodied navigation methods commonly operate in static environments with stationary objects. In this work, we present approaches for tackling navigation in dynamic scenarios with n…
Beyond Joint Demonstrations: Personalized Expert Guidance for Efficient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Peihong Yu, Manav Mishra, Alec Koppel +5
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms face the challenge of efficient exploration due to the exponential increase in the size of the joint state-action space. While…
MaxMin-RLHF: Alignment with Diverse Human Preferences
Souradip Chakraborty, Jiahao Qiu, Hui Yuan +5
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) aligns language models to human preferences by employing a singular reward model derived from preference data. However, such an ap…
A Closer Look at the Limitations of Instruction Tuning
Sreyan Ghosh, Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru, Sonal Kumar +5
Instruction Tuning (IT), the process of training large language models (LLMs) using instruction-response pairs, has emerged as the predominant method for transforming base pre-trai…