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6 papers

cs.CL2026

Putting HUMANS first: Efficient LAM Evaluation with Human Preference Alignment

Woody Haosheng Gan, William Held, Diyi Yang

The rapid proliferation of large audio models (LAMs) demands efficient approaches for model comparison, yet comprehensive benchmarks are costly. To fill this gap, we investigate wh…

cs.SD2026

Scaling Open Discrete Audio Foundation Models with Interleaved Semantic, Acoustic, and Text Tokens

Potsawee Manakul, Woody Haosheng Gan, Martijn Bartelds +3

Current audio language models are predominantly text-first, either extending pre-trained text LLM backbones or relying on semantic-only audio tokens, limiting general audio modelin…

cs.CL2025

AudioJudge: Understanding What Works in Large Audio Model Based Speech Evaluation

Potsawee Manakul, Woody Haosheng Gan, Michael J. Ryan +5

Current speech evaluation suffers from two critical limitations: the need and difficulty of designing specialized systems targeting individual audio characteristics, and poor corre…

cs.CV2025

ConceptMix++: Leveling the Playing Field in Text-to-Image Benchmarking via Iterative Prompt Optimization

Haosheng Gan, Berk Tinaz, Mohammad Shahab Sepehri +2

Current text-to-image (T2I) benchmarks evaluate models on rigid prompts, potentially underestimating true generative capabilities due to prompt sensitivity and creating biases that…

cs.LG2025

Textual Steering Vectors Can Improve Visual Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Models

Woody Haosheng Gan, Deqing Fu, Julian Asilis +5

Steering methods have emerged as effective and targeted tools for guiding large language models' (LLMs) behavior without modifying their parameters. Multimodal large language model…

cs.LG2025

Differentially Private In-context Learning via Sampling Few-shot Mixed with Zero-shot Outputs

James Flemings, Haosheng Gan, Hongyi Li +2

In-context learning (ICL) has shown promising improvement in downstream task adaptation of LLMs by augmenting prompts with relevant input-output examples (demonstrations). However,…