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Towards Audio Token Compression in Large Audio Language Models
Saurabhchand Bhati, Samuel Thomas, Hilde Kuehne +2
Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) deliver strong performance across speech and audio tasks, but their audio encoders generate high-rate token sequences (e.g., 25 tokens/s), makin…
Omni-R1: Do You Really Need Audio to Fine-Tune Your Audio LLM?
Andrew Rouditchenko, Saurabhchand Bhati, Edson Araujo +4
We propose Omni-R1 which fine-tunes a recent multi-modal LLM, Qwen2.5-Omni, on an audio question answering dataset with the reinforcement learning method GRPO. This leads to new St…
mWhisper-Flamingo for Multilingual Audio-Visual Noise-Robust Speech Recognition
Andrew Rouditchenko, Samuel Thomas, Hilde Kuehne +2
Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) combines lip-based video with audio and can improve performance in noise, but most methods are trained only on English data. One limitation i…
DASS: Distilled Audio State Space Models Are Stronger and More Duration-Scalable Learners
Saurabhchand Bhati, Yuan Gong, Leonid Karlinsky +3
State-space models (SSMs) have emerged as an alternative to Transformers for audio modeling due to their high computational efficiency with long inputs. While recent efforts on Aud…
State-Space Large Audio Language Models
Saurabhchand Bhati, Yuan Gong, Leonid Karlinsky +3
Large Audio Language Models (LALM) combine the audio perception models and the Large Language Models (LLM) and show a remarkable ability to reason about the input audio, infer the…
Whisper-Flamingo: Integrating Visual Features into Whisper for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition and Translation
Andrew Rouditchenko, Yuan Gong, Samuel Thomas +4
Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) uses lip-based video to improve performance in noise. Since videos are harder to obtain than audio, the video training data of AVSR models is…