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most citedSALMONN: Towards Generic Hearing Abilities for Large Language Models

20 citations · 33 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

eess.AS2026

SALMONN-2: Advancing General-Purpose Hearing Abilities with Self-Supervised Representations

Xiaoyu Yang, Xuenan Xu, Wenyi Yu +10

Recent audio large language models (ALLMs) are typically built upon audio encoders trained with large amounts of supervised data. Since self-supervised learning (SSL) audio encoder…

q-bio.NC2026

One Brain, Omni Modalities: Towards Unified Non-Invasive Brain Decoding with Large Language Models

Changli Tang, Shurui Li, Junliang Wang +8

Deciphering brain function through non-invasive recordings requires synthesizing complementary high-frequency electromagnetic (EEG/MEG) and low-frequency metabolic (fMRI) signals.…

cs.CV2026★ 1 cited

D-ORCA: Dialogue-Centric Optimization for Robust Audio-Visual Captioning

Changli Tang, Tianyi Wang, Fengyun Rao +2

Spoken dialogue is a primary source of information in videos; therefore, accurately identifying who spoke what and when is essential for deep video understanding. We introduce D-OR…

cs.CV2026

JAEGER: Joint 3D Audio-Visual Grounding and Reasoning in Simulated Physical Environments

Zhan Liu, Changli Tang, Yuxin Wang +7

Current audio-visual large language models (AV-LLMs) are predominantly restricted to 2D perception, relying on RGB video and monaural audio. This design choice introduces a fundame…

cs.SD2026

OCR-Enhanced Multimodal ASR Can Read While Listening

Junli Chen, Changli Tang, Yixuan Li +2

Visual information, such as subtitles in a movie, often helps automatic speech recognition. In this paper, we propose Donut-Whisper, an audio-visual ASR model with dual encoder to…

eess.AS2025

Towards General Auditory Intelligence: Large Multimodal Models for Machine Listening and Speaking

Siyin Wang, Zengrui Jin, Changli Tang +26

In the era of large language models (LLMs) and artificial general intelligence (AGI), computer audition must evolve beyond traditional paradigms to fully leverage the capabilities…

cs.CV2025★ 2 cited

WAVE: Learning Unified & Versatile Audio-Visual Embeddings with Multimodal LLM

Changli Tang, Qinfan Xiao, Ke Mei +3

While embeddings from multimodal large language models (LLMs) excel as general-purpose representations, their application to dynamic modalities like audio and video remains underex…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

video-SALMONN 2: Caption-Enhanced Audio-Visual Large Language Models

Changli Tang, Yixuan Li, Yudong Yang +5

We present video-SALMONN 2, a family of audio-visual large language models that set new state-of-the-art (SOTA) results in video description and question answering (QA). Our core c…

cs.CV2025

Audio-centric Video Understanding Benchmark without Text Shortcut

Yudong Yang, Jimin Zhuang, Guangzhi Sun +7

Audio often serves as an auxiliary modality in video understanding tasks of audio-visual large language models (LLMs), merely assisting in the comprehension of visual information.…

cs.CV2025

Improving LLM Video Understanding with 16 Frames Per Second

Yixuan Li, Changli Tang, Jimin Zhuang +5

Human vision is dynamic and continuous. However, in video understanding with multimodal large language models (LLMs), existing methods primarily rely on static features extracted f…

cs.CV2025★ 2 cited

video-SALMONN-o1: Reasoning-enhanced Audio-visual Large Language Model

Guangzhi Sun, Yudong Yang, Jimin Zhuang +5

While recent advancements in reasoning optimization have significantly enhanced the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), existing efforts to improve reasoning have been li…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Enhancing Multimodal LLM for Detailed and Accurate Video Captioning using Multi-Round Preference Optimization

Changli Tang, Yixuan Li, Yudong Yang +5

Videos contain a wealth of information, and generating detailed and accurate descriptions in natural language is a key aspect of video understanding. In this paper, we present vide…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

Enabling Auditory Large Language Models for Automatic Speech Quality Evaluation

Siyin Wang, Wenyi Yu, Yudong Yang +10

Speech quality assessment typically requires evaluating audio from multiple aspects, such as mean opinion score (MOS) and speaker similarity (SIM) \etc., which can be challenging t…

cs.CV2024

video-SALMONN: Speech-Enhanced Audio-Visual Large Language Models

Guangzhi Sun, Wenyi Yu, Changli Tang +7

Speech understanding as an element of the more generic video understanding using audio-visual large language models (av-LLMs) is a crucial yet understudied aspect. This paper propo…

cs.SD2024

Can Large Language Models Understand Spatial Audio?

Changli Tang, Wenyi Yu, Guangzhi Sun +8

This paper explores enabling large language models (LLMs) to understand spatial information from multichannel audio, a skill currently lacking in auditory LLMs. By leveraging LLMs'…

eess.AS2023★ 5 cited

Fine-grained Audio-Visual Joint Representations for Multimodal Large Language Models

Guangzhi Sun, Wenyi Yu, Changli Tang +6

Audio-visual large language models (LLM) have drawn significant attention, yet the fine-grained combination of both input streams is rather under-explored, which is challenging but…

cs.SD2023★ 20 cited

SALMONN: Towards Generic Hearing Abilities for Large Language Models

Changli Tang, Wenyi Yu, Guangzhi Sun +6

Hearing is arguably an essential ability of artificial intelligence (AI) agents in the physical world, which refers to the perception and understanding of general auditory informat…

eess.AS2023

Connecting Speech Encoder and Large Language Model for ASR

Wenyi Yu, Changli Tang, Guangzhi Sun +6

The impressive capability and versatility of large language models (LLMs) have aroused increasing attention in automatic speech recognition (ASR), with several pioneering studies a…