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20242026
collaborators

8 papers

cs.CL2026

MERaLiON-GR: Speech Gender Recognition Model for English and SEA Languages

Qiongqiong Wang, Ai Ti Aw, Nancy F. Chen +18

We present MERaLiON-GR, a speech gender recognition system that performs binary classification (female / male) on English and Southeast Asian (SEA) languages. The model finetunes M…

cs.CL2026

Shieldstral

Antonia Calvi, Avinash Sooriyarachchi, Giada Pistilli +273

We introduce Shieldstral, a 3B-parameter policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that matches or outperforms models nearly 7 its size on text safety benchmarks and set…

cs.AI2026

Voxtral TTS

Mistral-AI, :, Alexander H. Liu +186

We introduce Voxtral TTS, an expressive multilingual text-to-speech model that generates natural speech from as little as 3 seconds of reference audio. Voxtral TTS adopts a hybrid…

cs.AI2026

Unlocking Cognitive Capabilities and Analyzing the Perception-Logic Trade-off

Longyin Zhang, Shuo Sun, Yingxu He +15

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) pursue omni-perception capabilities, yet integrating robust sensory grounding with complex reasoning remains a chall…

cs.SD2025

MERaLiON-SER: Robust Speech Emotion Recognition Model for English and SEA Languages

Hardik B. Sailor, Aw Ai Ti, Chen Fang Yih Nancy +26

We present MERaLiON-SER, a robust speech emotion recognition model designed for English and Southeast Asian languages. The model is trained using a hybrid objective combining weigh…

cs.CL2025

MERaLiON-TextLLM: Cross-Lingual Understanding of Large Language Models in Chinese, Indonesian, Malay, and Singlish

Xin Huang, Tarun Kumar Vangani, Minh Duc Pham +4

Multilingual large language models (MLLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across a variety of languages. However, efficacy can differ greatly between different language familie…

cs.CL2025

AdaMCoT: Rethinking Cross-Lingual Factual Reasoning through Adaptive Multilingual Chain-of-Thought

Weihua Zheng, Xin Huang, Zhengyuan Liu +7

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive multilingual capabilities through pretraining on diverse corpora. Although these models show strong reasoning abilities, their pe…

cs.CL2024

MERaLiON-SpeechEncoder: Towards a Speech Foundation Model for Singapore and Beyond

Muhammad Huzaifah, Geyu Lin, Tianchi Liu +8

This technical report describes the MERaLiON-SpeechEncoder, a foundation model designed to support a wide range of downstream speech applications. Developed as part of Singapore's…