5 papers
CLARA: Clip-Level Multimodal Alignment with VLM-Derived Rationales for Hateful Video Detection
Yuchen Zhang, Shuang Dai, Zeyu Fu +3
Hateful video detection has become increasingly important with the rapid growth of video-centric social media platforms, given the serious risks that hate speech poses to both indi…
CARD: Cross-component Audio Representation Distillation for Encoder-Free Audio Captioning
Ganesh Pavan Kartikeya Bharadwaj Kolluri, Yuchen Zhang, Michael Kampouridis +1
Modern automated audio captioning systems pair a frozen audio encoder with a large language model (LLM) via a trainable projector, incurring the encoder's inference cost and bottle…
On the Role of Encoder Depth: Pruning Whisper and LoRA Fine-Tuning in SLAM-ASR
Ganesh Pavan Kartikeya Bharadwaj Kolluri, Michael Kampouridis, Ravi Shekhar
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has advanced rapidly in recent years, driven by large-scale pretrained models and end-to-end architectures such as SLAM-ASR. A key component of S…
OasisSimp: An Open-source Asian-English Sentence Simplification Dataset
Hannah Liu, Muxin Tian, Iqra Ali +8
Sentence simplification aims to make complex text more accessible by reducing linguistic complexity while preserving the original meaning. However, progress in this area remains li…
SiTSE: Sinhala Text Simplification Dataset and Evaluation
Surangika Ranathunga, Rumesh Sirithunga, Himashi Rathnayake +4
Text Simplification is a task that has been minimally explored for low-resource languages. Consequently, there are only a few manually curated datasets. In this paper, we present a…