2 papers
cs.CL2026
Locality Matters for Training-Free Audio Token Compression in Audio-Language Models
Jiale Luo, Xiaoyu Liang, Haoji Hu
Audio-language models (ALMs) are increasingly used for audio captioning, question answering, and open-ended audio understanding, but their inference cost remains high when audio in…
cs.IR2026
Learn Before Represent: Bridging Generative and Contrastive Learning for Domain-Specific LLM Embeddings
Xiaoyu Liang, Yuchen Peng, Jiale Luo +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) adapted via contrastive learning excel in general representation learning but struggle in vertical domains like chemistry and law, primarily due to a l…