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cs.SD2026

OmniEcho: Audio-Visual Spatial Understanding for Omni-Modal Embodied Agents

Ruixun Liu, Yuxuan Wang, Jiacheng Xie +10

Humans can effortlessly localize the direction of a sound source and integrate it with visual cues for reasoning, yet this remains challenging for embodied agents. In particular, i…

cs.SE2026

Omni2Web: Benchmarking Audiovisual Website Development

Minghao Han, Zhenghao Xing, Xize Cheng +7

Screen-recorded web editing requests contain weak deictic expressions such as ``this'' and ``there,'' whose referents depend on speech, cursor trajectories, page state, and edit hi…

cs.SD2026

MuLA-Bench: A Multilingual Long-Form Audio Understanding Benchmark via Multi-Tier Auditing

Zeyu Yang, Xinyu Zhang, Zibo Bi +5

Long-form audio performance is often summarized by context length and aggregate accuracy, obscuring how language, evidence, and task jointly shape difficulty. We introduce MuLA-Ben…

cs.CL2026

Vox-Infinity: Benchmarking the Limits of Long-Context Spoken Language Models

Xize Cheng, Wenxu Jia, Chenyuhao Wen +4

Long-context understanding remains a fundamental challenge for large language models, as excessively long inputs often lead models to forget salient information. This issue is even…

eess.AS2026

OmniVChat: Synthesizing, Benchmarking, and Training for Native Audio-Visual Dialogue

Haolin He, Yunfei Chu, Qi Chen +15

We define OmniVChat (Omni Video Chat) as the task of native audio-visual dialogue between a user and an omni model. In OmniVChat, omni models directly and simultaneously receive au…

eess.AS2026

DiaScriber: A Speech LLM for Joint Diarization and Transcription in Multi-Speaker Scenarios

Bingshen Mu, Xian Shi, Xiong Wang +6

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (MSASR) aims to jointly predict content transcriptions, speaker identities, and timestamps, thereby addressing the key question of "who s…

cs.AI2026

VoxZip: Semantic-Anchored Temporal KV Cache Compression for Long-Context Audio Inference

Wenxu Jia, Dongjie Fu, Xize Cheng +6

Recent advancements in Speech Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding complex audio tasks. Despite this progress, their long-context infere…

cs.SD2026

Auto-AEG: Scalable Data Construction for Open-Vocabulary Audio Event Grounding

Zihan Zhang, Xize Cheng, Wenhao Yan +9

Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) reason fluently about sound yet struggle to localize precisely when events occur, while classical Sound Event Detection (SED) attains frame-leve…

cs.SD2026

Qwen-Music Technical Report

Jin Xu, Kangdi Wang, Ruibin Yuan +24

We introduce Qwen-Music, a music generation model that produces high-fidelity songs with complete vocals. It supports text-to-music generation from descriptions, lyrics, and musica…

cs.LG2026

X-OPD: Distilling Reasoning into Large Audio-Language Models via On-Policy Alignment

Dongjie Fu, Di Cao, Xize Cheng +6

While large audio-language models have achieved remarkable progress in auditory perception, they still lag behind text-based large language models in deep logical reasoning, primar…

eess.AS2026

A Survey of Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Systems: Architectural Hierarchy, Interaction Ontology, and Decision State Machine

Jingyu Lu, Yuhan Wang, Jianming Luo +15

More than a dozen spoken dialogue systems have recently claimed to be "full-duplex," yet the term has been used to describe substantially different capabilities. Existing surveys c…

cs.LG2026

Character Beyond Speech: Leveraging Role-Playing Evaluation in Audio Large Language Models via Reinforcement Learning

Dongjie Fu, Fangming Feng, Xize Cheng +3

The rapid evolution of multimodal large models has revolutionized the simulation of diverse characters in speech dialogue systems, enabling a novel interactive paradigm. Character…

eess.AS2026

SDiaReward: Modeling and Benchmarking Spoken Dialogue Rewards with Modality and Colloquialness

Jingyu Lu, Yuhan Wang, Fan Zhuo +7

The rapid evolution of end-to-end spoken dialogue systems demands transcending mere textual semantics to incorporate paralinguistic nuances and the spontaneous nature of human conv…

cs.SD2025

MARS-Sep: Multimodal-Aligned Reinforced Sound Separation

Zihan Zhang, Xize Cheng, Zhennan Jiang +4

Universal sound separation faces a fundamental misalignment: models optimized for low-level signal metrics often produce semantically contaminated outputs, failing to suppress perc…

eess.AS2025

Rhythm Controllable and Efficient Zero-Shot Voice Conversion via Shortcut Flow Matching

Jialong Zuo, Shengpeng Ji, Minghui Fang +7

Zero-Shot Voice Conversion (VC) aims to transform the source speaker's timbre into an arbitrary unseen one while retaining speech content. Most prior work focuses on preserving the…

cs.SD2025

T2A-Feedback: Improving Basic Capabilities of Text-to-Audio Generation via Fine-grained AI Feedback

Zehan Wang, Ke Lei, Chen Zhu +8

Text-to-audio (T2A) generation has achieved remarkable progress in generating a variety of audio outputs from language prompts. However, current state-of-the-art T2A models still s…

eess.AS2025

WavReward: Spoken Dialogue Models With Generalist Reward Evaluators

Shengpeng Ji, Tianle Liang, Yangzhuo Li +11

End-to-end spoken dialogue models such as GPT-4o-audio have recently garnered significant attention in the speech domain. However, the evaluation of spoken dialogue models' convers…

cs.SD2025

Unleashing the Power of Natural Audio Featuring Multiple Sound Sources

Xize Cheng, Slytherin Wang, Zehan Wang +3

Universal sound separation aims to extract clean audio tracks corresponding to distinct events from mixed audio, which is critical for artificial auditory perception. However, curr…

cs.SD2025

Enhancing Expressive Voice Conversion with Discrete Pitch-Conditioned Flow Matching Model

Jialong Zuo, Shengpeng Ji, Minghui Fang +8

This paper introduces PFlow-VC, a conditional flow matching voice conversion model that leverages fine-grained discrete pitch tokens and target speaker prompt information for expre…

cs.CL2025

OmniChat: Enhancing Spoken Dialogue Systems with Scalable Synthetic Data for Diverse Scenarios

Xize Cheng, Dongjie Fu, Xiaoda Yang +11

With the rapid development of large language models, researchers have created increasingly advanced spoken dialogue systems that can naturally converse with humans. However, these…

cs.LG2024

A Wander Through the Multimodal Landscape: Efficient Transfer Learning via Low-rank Sequence Multimodal Adapter

Zirun Guo, Xize Cheng, Yangyang Wu +1

Efficient transfer learning methods such as adapter-based methods have shown great success in unimodal models and vision-language models. However, existing methods have two main ch…

eess.AS2024★ 2 cited

WavChat: A Survey of Spoken Dialogue Models

Shengpeng Ji, Yifu Chen, Minghui Fang +16

Recent advancements in spoken dialogue models, exemplified by systems like GPT-4o, have captured significant attention in the speech domain. Compared to traditional three-tier casc…

cs.SD2024

OmniSep: Unified Omni-Modality Sound Separation with Query-Mixup

Xize Cheng, Siqi Zheng, Zehan Wang +8

The scaling up has brought tremendous success in the fields of vision and language in recent years. When it comes to audio, however, researchers encounter a major challenge in scal…

cs.SD2024

MuVi: Video-to-Music Generation with Semantic Alignment and Rhythmic Synchronization

Ruiqi Li, Siqi Zheng, Xize Cheng +3

Generating music that aligns with the visual content of a video has been a challenging task, as it requires a deep understanding of visual semantics and involves generating music w…