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most citedSALMONN: Towards Generic Hearing Abilities for Large Language Models

20 citations · 31 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

stat.ML2026

Acceleration of Diffusion Language Model through Discrete Average Generator

Yidong Ouyang, Zhengyan Wan, Themis Haris +8

Discrete diffusion models and flow matching have emerged as powerful frameworks for generative modeling over discrete state spaces, yet efficient few-step generation remains a fund…

cs.SD2026

AuK Technical Report: An Open-Source Foundational Model for Speech Generation and Editing

Ziyang Ma, Zhikang Niu, Wenming Tu +30

We introduce AuK, an open-source foundational model that unifies speech generation and editing through a common interface of natural-language instructions and audio context. To sup…

eess.AS2026

GROW: Group-Relative Advantage-Weighted On-Policy Reinforcement Learning of Autoregressive-Diffusion Text-to-Speech model

Guanrou Yang, Tian Tan, Qian Chen +8

Reinforcement learning for flow-matching text-to-speech is complicated by deterministic ODE sampling: trajectory-level policy-gradient methods typically convert the ODE into an SDE…

cs.SD2026

MMAE: A Massive Multitask Audio Editing Benchmark

Ziyang Ma, Ruiqi Yan, Ruiyang Xu +35

We introduce MMAE, a Massive Multitask Audio Editing benchmark, serving as the first comprehensive evaluation testbed designed for general-purpose instruction-based audio editing.…

eess.AS2026

AnyAudio-Judge: A Dynamic Rubric-Based Benchmark and Evaluator for Audio Instruction Following

Haitao Li, Tian Tan, Yuguang Yang +2

The rapid advancement of instruction-guided audio generation has highlighted the critical need for robust alignment evaluation. Current automated evaluation methods heavily rely on…

eess.AS2026

WavCube: Unifying Speech Representation for Understanding and Generation via Semantic-Acoustic Joint Modeling

Guanrou Yang, Tian Tan, Qian Chen +12

Integrating speech understanding and generation is a pivotal step toward building unified speech models. However, the different representations required for these two tasks current…

eess.AS2024★ 6 cited

Seed-ASR: Understanding Diverse Speech and Contexts with LLM-based Speech Recognition

Ye Bai, Jingping Chen, Jitong Chen +52

Modern automatic speech recognition (ASR) model is required to accurately transcribe diverse speech signals (from different domains, languages, accents, etc) given the specific con…

cs.CV2024

video-SALMONN: Speech-Enhanced Audio-Visual Large Language Models

Guangzhi Sun, Wenyi Yu, Changli Tang +7

Speech understanding as an element of the more generic video understanding using audio-visual large language models (av-LLMs) is a crucial yet understudied aspect. This paper propo…

cs.SD2024

Can Large Language Models Understand Spatial Audio?

Changli Tang, Wenyi Yu, Guangzhi Sun +8

This paper explores enabling large language models (LLMs) to understand spatial information from multichannel audio, a skill currently lacking in auditory LLMs. By leveraging LLMs'…

eess.AS2023★ 5 cited

Fine-grained Audio-Visual Joint Representations for Multimodal Large Language Models

Guangzhi Sun, Wenyi Yu, Changli Tang +6

Audio-visual large language models (LLM) have drawn significant attention, yet the fine-grained combination of both input streams is rather under-explored, which is challenging but…

cs.SD2023★ 20 cited

SALMONN: Towards Generic Hearing Abilities for Large Language Models

Changli Tang, Wenyi Yu, Guangzhi Sun +6

Hearing is arguably an essential ability of artificial intelligence (AI) agents in the physical world, which refers to the perception and understanding of general auditory informat…