9 papers
SteerDuplex: Steerable Duplex Speech Dialogue Models
Utkarsh Tyagi, Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, Advait Gosai +13
Full-duplex spoken dialogue models support low-latency turn taking, interruption handling, and backchanneling, yet a key capability remains underexplored: steerability, the ability…
Do Audio-Visual Large Language Models Really See and Hear?
Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, Kaousheik Jayakumar, S Sakshi +3
Audio-Visual Large Language Models (AVLLMs) are emerging as unified interfaces to multimodal perception. We present the first mechanistic interpretability study of AVLLMs, analyzin…
Audio Hallucination Attacks: Probing the Reliability of Large Audio Language Models
Ashish Seth, Sonal Kumar, Ramaneswaran Selvakumar +5
Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) achieve strong performance on audio-language tasks; however, their reliability in real-world settings remains underexplored. We introduce Audio…
Peeking Into The Future For Contextual Biasing
Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, Cindy Tseng, Eesung Kim +2
While end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) models excel at general transcription, they struggle to recognize rare or unseen named entities (e.g., contact names, loca…
EGOILLUSION: Benchmarking Hallucinations in Egocentric Video Understanding
Ashish Seth, Utkarsh Tyagi, Ramaneswaran Selvakumar +6
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in complex multimodal tasks. While MLLMs excel at visual perception and reasoning in third-person…
MultiVox: A Benchmark for Evaluating Voice Assistants for Multimodal Interactions
Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, Ashish Seth, Nishit Anand +4
The rapid progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) has empowered omni models to act as voice assistants capable of understanding spoken dialogues. These models can process multimod…
PAT: Parameter-Free Audio-Text Aligner to Boost Zero-Shot Audio Classification
Ashish Seth, Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, Sonal Kumar +2
Audio-Language Models (ALMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in zero-shot audio classification. In this paper, we introduce PAT (Parameter-free Audio-Text aligner), a simp…
EH-MAM: Easy-to-Hard Masked Acoustic Modeling for Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning
Ashish Seth, Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, S Sakshi +3
In this paper, we present EH-MAM (Easy-to-Hard adaptive Masked Acoustic Modeling), a novel self-supervised learning approach for speech representation learning. In contrast to the…
Do Audio-Language Models Understand Linguistic Variations?
Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, Sonal Kumar, Hemant Kumar Giri +4
Open-vocabulary audio language models (ALMs), like Contrastive Language Audio Pretraining (CLAP), represent a promising new paradigm for audio-text retrieval using natural language…