3 papers
cs.CL2026
Steering Speech-Language Models: Training-Free Task Specialization via Contrastive Activation Addition
Séverin Baroudi, Yanis Labrak, Pierfrancesco Melucci +5
Activation steering has proven effective for controlling the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs) at inference time, but its application to SpeechLLMs remains new, and training…
cs.SD2026
Towards Realistic Synthetic Data for Automatic Drum Transcription
Pierfrancesco Melucci, Paolo Merialdo, Taketo Akama
Deep learning models define the state-of-the-art in Automatic Drum Transcription (ADT), yet their performance is contingent upon large-scale, paired audio-MIDI datasets, which are…
cs.CL2024
How to Connect Speech Foundation Models and Large Language Models? What Matters and What Does Not
Francesco Verdini, Pierfrancesco Melucci, Stefano Perna +9
The remarkable performance achieved by Large Language Models (LLM) has driven research efforts to leverage them for a wide range of tasks and input modalities. In speech-to-text (S…