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most citedSpeechTokenizer: Unified Speech Tokenizer for Speech Large Language Models

12 citations · 34 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.CL2026

SpeechParaling-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Paralinguistic-Aware Speech Generation

Ruohan Liu, Shukang Yin, Tao Wang +6

Paralinguistic cues are essential for natural human-computer interaction, yet their evaluation in Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) remains limited by coarse feature coverage and…

cs.CL2026

WESR: Scaling and Evaluating Word-level Event-Speech Recognition

Chenchen Yang, Kexin Huang, Liwei Fan +8

Speech conveys not only linguistic information but also rich non-verbal vocal events such as laughing and crying. While semantic transcription is well-studied, the precise localiza…

cs.CL2025

Sparser Block-Sparse Attention via Token Permutation

Xinghao Wang, Pengyu Wang, Dong Zhang +7

Scaling the context length of large language models (LLMs) offers significant benefits but is computationally expensive. This expense stems primarily from the self-attention mechan…

cs.SD2025

VStyle: A Benchmark for Voice Style Adaptation with Spoken Instructions

Jun Zhan, Mingyang Han, Yuxuan Xie +11

Spoken language models (SLMs) have emerged as a unified paradigm for speech understanding and generation, enabling natural human machine interaction. However, while most progress h…

cs.CL2025

UnifiedVisual: A Framework for Constructing Unified Vision-Language Datasets

Pengyu Wang, Shaojun Zhou, Chenkun Tan +7

Unified vision large language models (VLLMs) have recently achieved impressive advancements in both multimodal understanding and generation, powering applications such as visual qu…

cs.CL2025

Decoupled Proxy Alignment: Mitigating Language Prior Conflict for Multimodal Alignment in MLLM

Chenkun Tan, Pengyu Wang, Shaojun Zhou +6

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have gained significant attention due to their impressive ability to integrate vision and language modalities. Recent advancements in MLLMs…

cs.SD2025

XY-Tokenizer: Mitigating the Semantic-Acoustic Conflict in Low-Bitrate Speech Codecs

Yitian Gong, Luozhijie Jin, Ruifan Deng +6

Speech codecs serve as bridges between speech signals and large language models. An ideal codec for speech language models should not only preserve acoustic information but also ca…

cs.CL2025

InstructTTSEval: Benchmarking Complex Natural-Language Instruction Following in Text-to-Speech Systems

Kexin Huang, Qian Tu, Liwei Fan +6

In modern speech synthesis, paralinguistic information--such as a speaker's vocal timbre, emotional state, and dynamic prosody--plays a critical role in conveying nuance beyond mer…

cs.CL2024

MetaAlign: Align Large Language Models with Diverse Preferences during Inference Time

Mozhi Zhang, Pengyu Wang, Chenkun Tan +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) acquire extensive knowledge and remarkable abilities from extensive text corpora, making them powerful tools for various applications. To make LLMs mor…

cs.SD2024★ 2 cited

IntrinsicVoice: Empowering LLMs with Intrinsic Real-time Voice Interaction Abilities

Xin Zhang, Xiang Lyu, Zhihao Du +10

Current methods of building LLMs with voice interaction capabilities rely heavily on explicit text autoregressive generation before or during speech response generation to maintain…

cs.CL2024

BitStack: Any-Size Compression of Large Language Models in Variable Memory Environments

Xinghao Wang, Pengyu Wang, Bo Wang +3

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized numerous applications, yet their deployment remains challenged by memory constraints on local devices. While scaling laws have enha…

eess.AS2024

ESPnet-Codec: Comprehensive Training and Evaluation of Neural Codecs for Audio, Music, and Speech

Jiatong Shi, Jinchuan Tian, Yihan Wu +17

Neural codecs have become crucial to recent speech and audio generation research. In addition to signal compression capabilities, discrete codecs have also been found to enhance do…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

UnifiedMLLM: Enabling Unified Representation for Multi-modal Multi-tasks With Large Language Model

Zhaowei Li, Wei Wang, YiQing Cai +7

Significant advancements has recently been achieved in the field of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs), demonstrating their remarkable capabilities in understanding and reas…

cs.CL2024

SpeechAlign: Aligning Speech Generation to Human Preferences

Dong Zhang, Zhaowei Li, Shimin Li +4

Speech language models have significantly advanced in generating realistic speech, with neural codec language models standing out. However, the integration of human feedback to ali…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

AnyGPT: Unified Multimodal LLM with Discrete Sequence Modeling

Jun Zhan, Junqi Dai, Jiasheng Ye +13

We introduce AnyGPT, an any-to-any multimodal language model that utilizes discrete representations for the unified processing of various modalities, including speech, text, images…

cs.CL2024

GenTranslate: Large Language Models are Generative Multilingual Speech and Machine Translators

Yuchen Hu, Chen Chen, Chao-Han Huck Yang +4

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have stepped forward the development of multilingual speech and machine translation by its reduced representation errors and incorpo…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

SpeechGPT-Gen: Scaling Chain-of-Information Speech Generation

Dong Zhang, Xin Zhang, Jun Zhan +3

Benefiting from effective speech modeling, current Speech Large Language Models (SLLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in in-context speech generation and efficient gen…

cs.CL2024

InferAligner: Inference-Time Alignment for Harmlessness through Cross-Model Guidance

Pengyu Wang, Dong Zhang, Linyang Li +5

With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), they are not only used as general-purpose AI assistants but are also customized through further fine-tuning to meet the…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

SpeechAgents: Human-Communication Simulation with Multi-Modal Multi-Agent Systems

Dong Zhang, Zhaowei Li, Pengyu Wang +3

Human communication is a complex and diverse process that not only involves multiple factors such as language, commonsense, and cultural backgrounds but also requires the participa…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

GroundingGPT:Language Enhanced Multi-modal Grounding Model

Zhaowei Li, Qi Xu, Dong Zhang +9

Multi-modal large language models have demonstrated impressive performance across various tasks in different modalities. However, existing multi-modal models primarily emphasize ca…

cs.CL2023★ 6 cited

SeqXGPT: Sentence-Level AI-Generated Text Detection

Pengyu Wang, Linyang Li, Ke Ren +3

Widely applied large language models (LLMs) can generate human-like content, raising concerns about the abuse of LLMs. Therefore, it is important to build strong AI-generated text…

cs.CL2023★ 12 cited

SpeechTokenizer: Unified Speech Tokenizer for Speech Large Language Models

Xin Zhang, Dong Zhang, Shimin Li +2

Current speech large language models build upon discrete speech representations, which can be categorized into semantic tokens and acoustic tokens. However, existing speech tokens…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

DUB: Discrete Unit Back-translation for Speech Translation

Dong Zhang, Rong Ye, Tom Ko +2

How can speech-to-text translation (ST) perform as well as machine translation (MT)? The key point is to bridge the modality gap between speech and text so that useful MT technique…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

SpeechGPT: Empowering Large Language Models with Intrinsic Cross-Modal Conversational Abilities

Dong Zhang, Shimin Li, Xin Zhang +4

Multi-modal large language models are regarded as a crucial step towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and have garnered significant interest with the emergence of ChatGPT.…