3 papers
cs.AI2026
Oilbird: Training-Free Speculative Decoding with Keys the Verifier Already Computes
Tao Jin, Phuong Minh Nguyen, Zhenzhu Yan +2
Training-free speculative decoding drafts by matching an exact suffix of the context against a pool of earlier context. That lookup misses correct drafts already in the pool, most…
cs.IR2025
Vela: Scalable Embeddings with Voice Large Language Models for Multimodal Retrieval
Ruofan Hu, Yan Xia, Minjie Hong +5
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have seen substantial progress in recent years. However, their ability to represent multimodal information in the acoustic domain remains u…
eess.AS2025
Speech Token Prediction via Compressed-to-fine Language Modeling for Speech Generation
Wenrui Liu, Qian Chen, Wen Wang +11
Neural audio codecs, used as speech tokenizers, have demonstrated remarkable potential in the field of speech generation. However, to ensure high-fidelity audio reconstruction, neu…