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most citedSALMONN: Towards Generic Hearing Abilities for Large Language Models

20 citations · 29 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CV2026

Unifying Language-Action Understanding and Generation for Autonomous Driving

Xinyang Wang, Qian Liu, Wenjie Ding +7

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are emerging as a promising paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving, valued for their potential to leverage world knowledge and reason about…

cs.SD2026

Whisper-MLA: Reducing GPU Memory Consumption of ASR Models based on MHA2MLA Conversion

Sen Zhang, Jianguo Wei, Wenhuan Lu +6

The Transformer-based Whisper model has achieved state-of-the-art performance in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). However, its Multi-Head Attention (MHA) mechanism results in si…

cs.CV2025

video-SALMONN S: Memory-Enhanced Streaming Audio-Visual LLM

Guangzhi Sun, Yixuan Li, Xiaodong Wu +4

Long-duration streaming video understanding is fundamental for future AI agents, yet remains limited by ineffective long-term memory. We introduce video-SALMONN S, a memory-enhance…

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

LiveCC: Learning Video LLM with Streaming Speech Transcription at Scale

Joya Chen, Ziyun Zeng, Yiqi Lin +3

Recent video large language models (Video LLMs) often depend on costly human annotations or proprietary model APIs (e.g., GPT-4o) to produce training data, which limits their train…

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…

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.AS2024

Dual-Pipeline with Low-Rank Adaptation for New Language Integration in Multilingual ASR

Yerbolat Khassanov, Zhipeng Chen, Tianfeng Chen +5

This paper addresses challenges in integrating new languages into a pre-trained multilingual automatic speech recognition (mASR) system, particularly in scenarios where training da…

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…