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most citedSLAM-LLM: A Modular, Open-Source Multimodal Large Language Model Framework and Best Practice for Speech, Language, Audio and Music Processing

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eess.AS2026

OmniVChat: Synthesizing, Benchmarking, and Training for Native Audio-Visual Dialogue

Haolin He, Yunfei Chu, Qi Chen +15

We define OmniVChat (Omni Video Chat) as the task of native audio-visual dialogue between a user and an omni model. In OmniVChat, omni models directly and simultaneously receive au…

eess.AS2026

Summary of DCASE 2026 Task 5: Audio-Dependent Question Answering

Haolin He, Renhe Sun, Zheqi Dai +16

DCASE~2026 Task~5 introduces Audio-Dependent Question Answering (ADQA), which tests whether large audio-language models answer from the audio rather than from textual priors. An Au…

cs.SD2026

MMAE: A Massive Multitask Audio Editing Benchmark

Ziyang Ma, Ruiqi Yan, Ruiyang Xu +35

We introduce MMAE, a Massive Multitask Audio Editing benchmark, serving as the first comprehensive evaluation testbed designed for general-purpose instruction-based audio editing.…

eess.AS2026

WavTTS: Towards High-Quality Zero-Shot TTS via Direct Raw Waveform Modeling

Wenxi Chen, Dongya Jia, Yushen Chen +11

Recently, diffusion models operating on VAE latents or mel-spectrograms have become the dominant paradigm for zero-shot TTS. Although these compressed representations improve gener…

cs.SD2026

TinyMU: A Compact Audio-Language Model for Music Understanding

Xiquan Li, Aurian Quelennec, Slim Essid

Music understanding and reasoning are central challenges in the Music Information Research field, with applications ranging from retrieval and recommendation to music agents and vi…

cs.SD2026

FineLAP: Taming Heterogeneous Supervision for Fine-grained Language-Audio Pretraining

Xiquan Li, Xuenan Xu, Ziyang Ma +4

Contrastively pretrained audio-language models (e.g., CLAP) excel at clip-level understanding but struggle with frame-level tasks. Existing extensions fail to exploit the varying g…

cs.SD2026

Resonate: Reinforcing Text-to-Audio Generation via Online Feedback from Large Audio Language Models

Xiquan Li, Junxi Liu, Wenxi Chen +3

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become an effective paradigm for enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs) and visual generative models. However, its application in text-to-audio (TTA…

cs.SD2026

Audio ControlNet for Fine-Grained Audio Generation and Editing

Haina Zhu, Yao Xiao, Xiquan Li +5

We study the fine-grained text-to-audio (T2A) generation task. While recent models can synthesize high-quality audio from text descriptions, they often lack precise control over at…

cs.SD2026★ 3 cited

SLAM-LLM: A Modular, Open-Source Multimodal Large Language Model Framework and Best Practice for Speech, Language, Audio and Music Processing

Ziyang Ma, Guanrou Yang, Wenxi Chen +19

The recent surge in open-source Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) frameworks, such as LLaVA, provides a convenient kickoff for artificial intelligence developers and research…

eess.AS2026

SemanticAudio: Audio Generation and Editing in Semantic Space

Zheqi Dai, Guangyan Zhang, Haolin He +5

In recent years, Text-to-Audio Generation has achieved remarkable progress, offering sound creators powerful tools to transform textual inspirations into vivid audio. However, exis…

eess.AS2025

SAC: Neural Speech Codec with Semantic-Acoustic Dual-Stream Quantization

Wenxi Chen, Xinsheng Wang, Ruiqi Yan +9

Speech codecs that convert continuous speech signals into discrete tokens have become essential for speech language models. However, existing codecs struggle to balance high-qualit…

eess.AS2025

Measuring Audio's Impact on Correctness: Audio-Contribution-Aware Post-Training of Large Audio Language Models

Haolin He, Xingjian Du, Renhe Sun +16

Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) represent an important frontier in multimodal AI, addressing diverse audio tasks. Recently, post-training of LALMs has received increasing atten…

cs.SD2025

MeanAudio: Fast and Faithful Text-to-Audio Generation with Mean Flows

Xiquan Li, Junxi Liu, Yuzhe Liang +3

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in Text-to-Audio Generation (TTA), providing sound creators with powerful tools to transform inspirations into vivid audio. Yet desp…

cs.SD2025

Towards Reliable Large Audio Language Model

Ziyang Ma, Xiquan Li, Yakun Song +8

Recent advancements in large audio language models (LALMs) have demonstrated impressive results and promising prospects in universal understanding and reasoning across speech, musi…

cs.SD2025

MMAR: A Challenging Benchmark for Deep Reasoning in Speech, Audio, Music, and Their Mix

Ziyang Ma, Yinghao Ma, Yanqiao Zhu +31

We introduce MMAR, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the deep reasoning capabilities of Audio-Language Models (ALMs) across massive multi-disciplinary tasks. MMAR comprises 1,00…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

URO-Bench: Towards Comprehensive Evaluation for End-to-End Spoken Dialogue Models

Ruiqi Yan, Xiquan Li, Wenxi Chen +5

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have driven significant progress in end-to-end spoken dialogue models (SDMs). In contrast to text-based LLMs, the evaluation framewo…

eess.AS2024

SLAM-Omni: Timbre-Controllable Voice Interaction System with Single-Stage Training

Wenxi Chen, Ziyang Ma, Ruiqi Yan +13

Recent advancements highlight the potential of end-to-end real-time spoken dialogue systems, showcasing their low latency and high quality. In this paper, we introduce SLAM-Omni, a…

eess.AS2024

SLAM-AAC: Enhancing Audio Captioning with Paraphrasing Augmentation and CLAP-Refine through LLMs

Wenxi Chen, Ziyang Ma, Xiquan Li +5

Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) aims to generate natural textual descriptions for input audio signals. Recent progress in audio pre-trained models and large language models (LLMs)…

cs.SD2024

DRCap: Decoding CLAP Latents with Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Zero-shot Audio Captioning

Xiquan Li, Wenxi Chen, Ziyang Ma +5

While automated audio captioning (AAC) has made notable progress, traditional fully supervised AAC models still face two critical challenges: the need for expensive audio-text pair…

cs.SD2024

EmoBox: Multilingual Multi-corpus Speech Emotion Recognition Toolkit and Benchmark

Ziyang Ma, Mingjie Chen, Hezhao Zhang +6

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is an important part of human-computer interaction, receiving extensive attention from both industry and academia. However, the current research fi…