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most citedFunAudioLLM: Voice Understanding and Generation Foundation Models for Natural Interaction Between Humans and LLMs

9 citations · 25 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

eess.AS2026

Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: Towards Reliable Agentic Voice Interaction

Lujia Bao, Qian Chen, Luyao Cheng +15

Real-time voice assistants must reason over evolving requests, execute actions, and follow conversational rules. Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime brings these requirements together through…

eess.AS2026

Qwen-Audio-Agent Technical Report

Chong Deng, Yunjie Ji, Yuxiang Kong +5

We present Qwen-Audio-Agent, a harness that combines full-duplex voice interaction with asynchronous task execution through a foreground-background architecture. A Frontend Agent m…

cs.CL2026

Enabling Proactive Spoken Turns via a Generalized Style-Aware Full-Duplex Framework

Tianrui Pan, Qinglin Zhang, Chong Deng +6

Compared with half-duplex dialogue systems where the system waits for user turn completion before it responds, natural full-duplex dialogue systems require agents to act proactivel…

cs.CL2026

GenesisFunc: Multi-Agent Data Generation for Accurate and Generalizable Function-Calling

Hao-Xiang Xu, Chong Deng, Jiaqing Liu +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) extend their capabilities through function-calling (FC), which relies on training data with high quality, diversity, and broad coverage of scenario. Ho…

cs.LG2026

FGGM: Fisher-Guided Gradient Masking for Continual Learning

Chao-Hong Tan, Qian Chen, Wen Wang +6

Catastrophic forgetting impairs the continuous learning of large language models. We propose Fisher-Guided Gradient Masking (FGGM), a framework that mitigates this by strategically…

cs.CL2026★ 1 cited

Fun-Audio-Chat Technical Report

Tongyi Fun Team, Qian Chen, Luyao Cheng +10

Recent advancements in joint speech-text models show great potential for seamless voice interactions. However, existing models face critical challenges: temporal resolution mismatc…

eess.AS2025

Say More with Less: Variable-Frame-Rate Speech Tokenization via Adaptive Clustering and Implicit Duration Coding

Rui-Chen Zheng, Wenrui Liu, Hui-Peng Du +6

Existing speech tokenizers typically assign a fixed number of tokens per second, regardless of the varying information density or temporal fluctuations in the speech signal. This u…

cs.CL2025

DrVoice: Parallel Speech-Text Voice Conversation Model via Dual-Resolution Speech Representations

Chao-Hong Tan, Qian Chen, Wen Wang +14

Recent studies on end-to-end (E2E) speech generation with large language models (LLMs) have attracted significant community attention, with multiple works extending text-based LLMs…

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

MinMo: A Multimodal Large Language Model for Seamless Voice Interaction

Qian Chen, Yafeng Chen, Yanni Chen +33

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal speech-text models have laid the groundwork for seamless voice interactions, enabling real-time, natural, and hum…

cs.SD2024★ 4 cited

CosyVoice 2: Scalable Streaming Speech Synthesis with Large Language Models

Zhihao Du, Yuxuan Wang, Qian Chen +16

In our previous work, we introduced CosyVoice, a multilingual speech synthesis model based on supervised discrete speech tokens. By employing progressive semantic decoding with two…

cs.CL2024

OmniFlatten: An End-to-end GPT Model for Seamless Voice Conversation

Qinglin Zhang, Luyao Cheng, Chong Deng +8

Full-duplex spoken dialogue systems significantly surpass traditional turn-based dialogue systems, as they allow simultaneous bidirectional communication, closely mirroring human-h…

cs.CL2024

Recording for Eyes, Not Echoing to Ears: Contextualized Spoken-to-Written Conversion of ASR Transcripts

Jiaqing Liu, Chong Deng, Qinglin Zhang +4

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) transcripts exhibit recognition errors and various spoken language phenomena such as disfluencies, ungrammatical sentences, and incomplete senten…

cs.AI2024

Multimodal Fusion and Coherence Modeling for Video Topic Segmentation

Hai Yu, Chong Deng, Qinglin Zhang +3

The video topic segmentation (VTS) task segments videos into intelligible, non-overlapping topics, facilitating efficient comprehension of video content and quick access to specifi…

cs.SD2024★ 9 cited

FunAudioLLM: Voice Understanding and Generation Foundation Models for Natural Interaction Between Humans and LLMs

Keyu An, Qian Chen, Chong Deng +30

This report introduces FunAudioLLM, a model family designed to enhance natural voice interactions between humans and large language models (LLMs). At its core are two innovative mo…

cs.CL2024

Skip-Layer Attention: Bridging Abstract and Detailed Dependencies in Transformers

Qian Chen, Wen Wang, Qinglin Zhang +7

The Transformer architecture has significantly advanced deep learning, particularly in natural language processing, by effectively managing long-range dependencies. However, as the…

cs.CL2023

Loss Masking Is Not Needed in Decoder-only Transformer for Discrete-token-based ASR

Qian Chen, Wen Wang, Qinglin Zhang +7

Recently, unified speech-text models, such as SpeechGPT, VioLA, and AudioPaLM, have achieved remarkable performance on various speech tasks. These models discretize speech signals…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Improving Long Document Topic Segmentation Models With Enhanced Coherence Modeling

Hai Yu, Chong Deng, Qinglin Zhang +3

Topic segmentation is critical for obtaining structured documents and improving downstream tasks such as information retrieval. Due to its ability of automatically exploring clues…

cs.CL2023

Improving BERT with Hybrid Pooling Network and Drop Mask

Qian Chen, Wen Wang, Qinglin Zhang +3

Transformer-based pre-trained language models, such as BERT, achieve great success in various natural language understanding tasks. Prior research found that BERT captures a rich h…

cs.CL2023

Ditto: A Simple and Efficient Approach to Improve Sentence Embeddings

Qian Chen, Wen Wang, Qinglin Zhang +6

Prior studies diagnose the anisotropy problem in sentence representations from pre-trained language models, e.g., BERT, without fine-tuning. Our analysis reveals that the sentence…

cs.CL2023

Meeting Action Item Detection with Regularized Context Modeling

Jiaqing Liu, Chong Deng, Qinglin Zhang +2

Meetings are increasingly important for collaborations. Action items in meeting transcripts are crucial for managing post-meeting to-do tasks, which usually are summarized laboriou…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

MUG: A General Meeting Understanding and Generation Benchmark

Qinglin Zhang, Chong Deng, Jiaqing Liu +7

Listening to long video/audio recordings from video conferencing and online courses for acquiring information is extremely inefficient. Even after ASR systems transcribe recordings…

cs.CL2023

Overview of the ICASSP 2023 General Meeting Understanding and Generation Challenge (MUG)

Qinglin Zhang, Chong Deng, Jiaqing Liu +7

ICASSP2023 General Meeting Understanding and Generation Challenge (MUG) focuses on prompting a wide range of spoken language processing (SLP) research on meeting transcripts, as SL…

cs.CL2023

Weighted Sampling for Masked Language Modeling

Linhan Zhang, Qian Chen, Wen Wang +5

Masked Language Modeling (MLM) is widely used to pretrain language models. The standard random masking strategy in MLM causes the pre-trained language models (PLMs) to be biased to…

cs.CL2021★ 6 cited

MDERank: A Masked Document Embedding Rank Approach for Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction

Linhan Zhang, Qian Chen, Wen Wang +5

Keyphrase extraction (KPE) automatically extracts phrases in a document that provide a concise summary of the core content, which benefits downstream information retrieval and NLP…