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most citedScaling Autoregressive Multi-Modal Models: Pretraining and Instruction Tuning

27 citations · 44 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

eess.AS2026

JASTIN: Aligning LLMs for Zero-Shot Audio and Speech Evaluation via Natural Language Instructions

Leying Zhang, Bowen Shi, Haibin Wu +2

The rapid advancement of generative audio models has outpaced the development of robust evaluation methodologies. Existing objective metrics and general multimodal large language m…

eess.AS2026

SAM Audio Judge: A Unified Multimodal Framework for Perceptual Evaluation of Audio Separation

Helin Wang, Bowen Shi, Andros Tjandra +6

The performance evaluation remains a complex challenge in audio separation, and existing evaluation metrics are often misaligned with human perception, course-grained, relying on g…

cs.LG2026

Mosaic: Unlocking Long-Context Inference for Diffusion LLMs via Global Memory Planning and Dynamic Peak Taming

Liang Zheng, Bowen Shi, Yitao Hu +5

Diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm, utilizing simultaneous denoising to enable global planning and iterative refinement. While these…

eess.AS2025

SAM Audio: Segment Anything in Audio

Bowen Shi, Andros Tjandra, John Hoffman +11

General audio source separation is a key capability for multimodal AI systems that can perceive and reason about sound. Despite substantial progress in recent years, existing separ…

cs.SD2025

MR-FlowDPO: Multi-Reward Direct Preference Optimization for Flow-Matching Text-to-Music Generation

Alon Ziv, Sanyuan Chen, Andros Tjandra +3

A key challenge in music generation models is their lack of direct alignment with human preferences, as music evaluation is inherently subjective and varies widely across individua…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

Meta Audiobox Aesthetics: Unified Automatic Quality Assessment for Speech, Music, and Sound

Andros Tjandra, Yi-Chiao Wu, Baishan Guo +10

The quantification of audio aesthetics remains a complex challenge in audio processing, primarily due to its subjective nature, which is influenced by human perception and cultural…

eess.AS2024

Audiobox TTA-RAG: Improving Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Text-To-Audio with Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Mu Yang, Bowen Shi, Matthew Le +2

This work focuses on improving Text-To-Audio (TTA) generation on zero-shot and few-shot settings (i.e. generating unseen or uncommon audio events). Inspired by the success of Retri…

cs.SD2024

MusicFlow: Cascaded Flow Matching for Text Guided Music Generation

K R Prajwal, Bowen Shi, Matthew Lee +8

We introduce MusicFlow, a cascaded text-to-music generation model based on flow matching. Based on self-supervised representations to bridge between text descriptions and music aud…

cs.CL2024

MDCure: A Scalable Pipeline for Multi-Document Instruction-Following

Gabrielle Kaili-May Liu, Bowen Shi, Avi Caciularu +2

Multi-document (MD) processing is crucial for LLMs to handle real-world tasks such as summarization and question-answering across large sets of documents. While LLMs have improved…

cs.CV2024★ 8 cited

Movie Gen: A Cast of Media Foundation Models

Adam Polyak, Amit Zohar, Andrew Brown +85

We present Movie Gen, a cast of foundation models that generates high-quality, 1080p HD videos with different aspect ratios and synchronized audio. We also show additional capabili…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

High Fidelity Text-Guided Music Editing via Single-Stage Flow Matching

Gael Le Lan, Bowen Shi, Zhaoheng Ni +9

We introduce MelodyFlow, an efficient text-controllable high-fidelity music generation and editing model. It operates on continuous latent representations from a low frame rate 48…

eess.AS2024

Learning Fine-Grained Controllability on Speech Generation via Efficient Fine-Tuning

Chung-Ming Chien, Andros Tjandra, Apoorv Vyas +3

As the scale of generative models continues to grow, efficient reuse and adaptation of pre-trained models have become crucial considerations. In this work, we propose Voicebox Adap…

cs.SD2024

XLAVS-R: Cross-Lingual Audio-Visual Speech Representation Learning for Noise-Robust Speech Perception

HyoJung Han, Mohamed Anwar, Juan Pino +4

Speech recognition and translation systems perform poorly on noisy inputs, which are frequent in realistic environments. Augmenting these systems with visual signals has the potent…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Towards Privacy-Aware Sign Language Translation at Scale

Phillip Rust, Bowen Shi, Skyler Wang +2

A major impediment to the advancement of sign language translation (SLT) is data scarcity. Much of the sign language data currently available on the web cannot be used for training…

cs.SD2023★ 5 cited

Audiobox: Unified Audio Generation with Natural Language Prompts

Apoorv Vyas, Bowen Shi, Matthew Le +21

Audio is an essential part of our life, but creating it often requires expertise and is time-consuming. Research communities have made great progress over the past year advancing t…

eess.AS2023

Generative Pre-training for Speech with Flow Matching

Alexander H. Liu, Matt Le, Apoorv Vyas +3

Generative models have gained more and more attention in recent years for their remarkable success in tasks that required estimating and sampling data distribution to generate high…

cs.LG2023★ 27 cited

Scaling Autoregressive Multi-Modal Models: Pretraining and Instruction Tuning

Lili Yu, Bowen Shi, Ramakanth Pasunuru +24

We present CM3Leon (pronounced "Chameleon"), a retrieval-augmented, token-based, decoder-only multi-modal language model capable of generating and infilling both text and images. C…