most citedReinforcement Learning Outperforms Supervised Fine-Tuning: A Case Study on Audio Question Answering

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cs.SD2026

Graph Attention Design Choices Matter: A Controlled Study of LoRA-Adapted Audio Anti-Spoofing

Haoyu Wang, Jing Yang, Chenyu Liu +7

Audio anti-spoofing systems increasingly combine self-supervised learning, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, and graph-attention-based backends. However, performance gains in such s…

eess.AS2026

MiDashengLM-Gen: Unified Audio Scene Generation via LLM-Driven Autoregressive Flow Matching

Xingwei Sun, Heinrich Dinkel, Gang Li +7

Generating coherent audio scenes that simultaneously blend speech, music, and sound effects remains a significant challenge. Current approaches typically rely on a disjointed pipel…

cs.SD2026

Harness TTS: Towards Context-Aware Expressive Speech Synthesis with Harness Layer

Shengfan Shen, Di Wu, Xingchen Song +5

Expressive speech synthesis for voice assistants requires flexible style control that adapts to explicit requests and broader interaction context. We propose Harness TTS, a lightwe…

cs.SD2026

Dasheng AudioGen: A Unified Model for Generating Coherent Audio Scenes from Text

Jiahao Mei, Heinrich Dinkel, Yadong Niu +7

Audio generation has long been fragmented, with speech, music, and sound effects produced by domain-specific models that fail to jointly generate coherent audio scenes from a singl…

cs.SD2026

Iterate to Differentiate: Enhancing Discriminability and Reliability in Zero-Shot TTS Evaluation

Shengfan Shen, Di Wu, Xingchen Song +5

Reliable evaluation of modern zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) models remains challenging. Subjective tests are costly and hard to reproduce, while objective metrics often saturate,…

eess.AS2026

ACAVCaps: Enabling large-scale training for fine-grained and diverse audio understanding

Yadong Niu, Tianzi Wang, Heinrich Dinkel +6

General audio understanding is a fundamental goal for large audio-language models, with audio captioning serving as a cornerstone task for their development. However, progress in t…

cs.SD2026

The Interspeech 2026 Audio Encoder Capability Challenge for Large Audio Language Models

Heinrich Dinkel, Jiahao Zhou, Guanbo Wang +8

This paper presents the Interspeech 2026 Audio Encoder Capability Challenge, a benchmark specifically designed to evaluate and advance the performance of pre-trained audio encoders…

cs.MM2025

AV-Edit: Multimodal Generative Sound Effect Editing via Audio-Visual Semantic Joint Control

Xinyue Guo, Xiaoran Yang, Lipan Zhang +3

Sound effect editing-modifying audio by adding, removing, or replacing elements-remains constrained by existing approaches that rely solely on low-level signal processing or coarse…

cs.SD2025

MiDashengLM: Efficient Audio Understanding with General Audio Captions

Heinrich Dinkel, Gang Li, Jizhong Liu +7

Current approaches for large audio language models (LALMs) often rely on closed data sources or proprietary models, limiting their generalization and accessibility. This paper intr…

eess.AS2025

MECAT: A Multi-Experts Constructed Benchmark for Fine-Grained Audio Understanding Tasks

Yadong Niu, Tianzi Wang, Heinrich Dinkel +7

While large audio-language models have advanced open-ended audio understanding, they still fall short of nuanced human-level comprehension. This gap persists largely because curren…

eess.AS2025

Efficient Speech Enhancement via Embeddings from Pre-trained Generative Audioencoders

Xingwei Sun, Heinrich Dinkel, Yadong Niu +3

Recent research has delved into speech enhancement (SE) approaches that leverage audio embeddings from pre-trained models, diverging from time-frequency masking or signal predictio…

cs.MM2025

StarVC: A Unified Auto-Regressive Framework for Joint Text and Speech Generation in Voice Conversion

Fengjin Li, Jie Wang, Yadong Niu +4

Voice Conversion (VC) modifies speech to match a target speaker while preserving linguistic content. Traditional methods usually extract speaker information directly from speech wh…

cs.SD2025

GLAP: General contrastive audio-text pretraining across domains and languages

Heinrich Dinkel, Zhiyong Yan, Tianzi Wang +7

Contrastive Language Audio Pretraining (CLAP) is a widely-used method to bridge the gap between audio and text domains. Current CLAP methods enable sound and music retrieval in Eng…

cs.SD2025

X-ARES: A Comprehensive Framework for Assessing Audio Encoder Performance

Junbo Zhang, Heinrich Dinkel, Yadong Niu +4

We introduces X-ARES (eXtensive Audio Representation and Evaluation Suite), a novel open-source benchmark designed to systematically assess audio encoder performance across diverse…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

Reinforcement Learning Outperforms Supervised Fine-Tuning: A Case Study on Audio Question Answering

Gang Li, Jizhong Liu, Heinrich Dinkel +3

Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) has been shown to greatly enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), and RL-based approaches have been progressively…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

The ICME 2025 Audio Encoder Capability Challenge

Junbo Zhang, Heinrich Dinkel, Qiong Song +8

This challenge aims to evaluate the capabilities of audio encoders, especially in the context of multi-task learning and real-world applications. Participants are invited to submit…