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

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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.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…

cs.SD2024

Bridging Language Gaps in Audio-Text Retrieval

Zhiyong Yan, Heinrich Dinkel, Yongqing Wang +4

Audio-text retrieval is a challenging task, requiring the search for an audio clip or a text caption within a database. The predominant focus of existing research on English descri…