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10 papers

cs.CL2026

MERaLiON-GR: Speech Gender Recognition Model for English and SEA Languages

Qiongqiong Wang, Ai Ti Aw, Nancy F. Chen +18

We present MERaLiON-GR, a speech gender recognition system that performs binary classification (female / male) on English and Southeast Asian (SEA) languages. The model finetunes M…

cs.CV2026

Compositional Text-to-Image Generation Via Region-aware Bimodal Direct Preference Optimization

Zhuohan Liu, Wujian Peng, Yitong Chen +1

Despite the rapid progress of text-to-image (T2I) models, generating images that accurately reflect complex compositional prompts (covering attribute bindings, object relationships…

cs.AI2026

Unlocking Cognitive Capabilities and Analyzing the Perception-Logic Trade-off

Longyin Zhang, Shuo Sun, Yingxu He +15

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) pursue omni-perception capabilities, yet integrating robust sensory grounding with complex reasoning remains a chall…

cs.SD2025

MERaLiON-SER: Robust Speech Emotion Recognition Model for English and SEA Languages

Hardik B. Sailor, Aw Ai Ti, Chen Fang Yih Nancy +26

We present MERaLiON-SER, a robust speech emotion recognition model designed for English and Southeast Asian languages. The model is trained using a hybrid objective combining weigh…

cs.LG2025

SmoothGuard: Defending Multimodal Large Language Models with Noise Perturbation and Clustering Aggregation

Guangzhi Su, Shuchang Huang, Yutong Ke +3

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive performance across diverse tasks by jointly reasoning over textual and visual inputs. Despite their success, these…

cs.CL2025

Beyond Classification: Towards Speech Emotion Reasoning with Multitask AudioLLMs

Wenyu Zhang, Yingxu He, Geyu Lin +9

Audio Large Language Models (AudioLLMs) have achieved strong results in semantic tasks like speech recognition and translation, but remain limited in modeling paralinguistic cues s…