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most citedReinforcement Learning Outperforms Supervised Fine-Tuning: A Case Study on Audio Question Answering

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eess.AS2026

MiDashengLM-Gen: Unified Audio Scene Generation via LLM-Driven Autoregressive Flow Matching

Xingwei Sun, Heinrich Dinkel, Gang Li +7

Generating coherent audio scenes that simultaneously blend speech, music, and sound effects remains a significant challenge. Current approaches typically rely on a disjointed pipel…

cs.CV2026

MemoryCard: Topic-Aware Multi-Modal Clue Compression for Long-Video Question Answering

Qing Yang, Pengcheng Huang, Xinze Li +6

Long-video question answering remains challenging for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), as answer-relevant evidence is often sparse, transient, and temporally dispersed across lengthy…

cs.SD2026

Dasheng AudioGen: A Unified Model for Generating Coherent Audio Scenes from Text

Jiahao Mei, Heinrich Dinkel, Yadong Niu +7

Audio generation has long been fragmented, with speech, music, and sound effects produced by domain-specific models that fail to jointly generate coherent audio scenes from a singl…

cs.SD2026

DashengTokenizer: One layer is enough for unified audio understanding and generation

Heinrich Dinkel, Xingwei Sun, Gang Li +8

This paper introduces DashengTokenizer, a continuous audio tokenizer engineered for joint use in both understanding and generation tasks. Unlike conventional approaches, which trai…

eess.AS2026

ACAVCaps: Enabling large-scale training for fine-grained and diverse audio understanding

Yadong Niu, Tianzi Wang, Heinrich Dinkel +6

General audio understanding is a fundamental goal for large audio-language models, with audio captioning serving as a cornerstone task for their development. However, progress in t…

cs.MM2025

Multi Agents Semantic Emotion Aligned Music to Image Generation with Music Derived Captions

Junchang Shi, Gang Li

When people listen to music, they often experience rich visual imagery. We aim to externalize this inner imagery by generating images conditioned on music. We propose MESA MIG, a m…

cs.SD2025

MiDashengLM: Efficient Audio Understanding with General Audio Captions

Heinrich Dinkel, Gang Li, Jizhong Liu +7

Current approaches for large audio language models (LALMs) often rely on closed data sources or proprietary models, limiting their generalization and accessibility. This paper intr…

eess.AS2025

MECAT: A Multi-Experts Constructed Benchmark for Fine-Grained Audio Understanding Tasks

Yadong Niu, Tianzi Wang, Heinrich Dinkel +7

While large audio-language models have advanced open-ended audio understanding, they still fall short of nuanced human-level comprehension. This gap persists largely because curren…

cs.SD2025

GLAP: General contrastive audio-text pretraining across domains and languages

Heinrich Dinkel, Zhiyong Yan, Tianzi Wang +7

Contrastive Language Audio Pretraining (CLAP) is a widely-used method to bridge the gap between audio and text domains. Current CLAP methods enable sound and music retrieval in Eng…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

Reinforcement Learning Outperforms Supervised Fine-Tuning: A Case Study on Audio Question Answering

Gang Li, Jizhong Liu, Heinrich Dinkel +3

Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) has been shown to greatly enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), and RL-based approaches have been progressively…

cs.SD2024

Enhancing Automated Audio Captioning via Large Language Models with Optimized Audio Encoding

Jizhong Liu, Gang Li, Junbo Zhang +5

Automated audio captioning (AAC) is an audio-to-text task to describe audio contents in natural language. Recently, the advancements in large language models (LLMs), with improveme…