2 papers
cs.CV2026
MHA2MLA-VLM: Enabling DeepSeek's Economical Multi-Head Latent Attention across Vision-Language Models
Xiaoran Fan, Zhichao Sun, Tao Ji +2
As vision-language models (VLMs) tackle increasingly complex and multimodal tasks, the rapid growth of Key-Value (KV) cache imposes significant memory and computational bottlenecks…
cs.CL2025
What Makes a Good Speech Tokenizer for LLM-Centric Speech Generation? A Systematic Study
Xiaoran Fan, Zhichao Sun, Yangfan Gao +19
Speech-language models (SLMs) offer a promising path toward unifying speech and text understanding and generation. However, challenges remain in achieving effective cross-modal ali…