2 papers
cs.SD2026
SCENEBench: An Audio Understanding Benchmark Grounded in Assistive and Industrial Use Cases
Laya Iyer, Angelina Wang, Sanmi Koyejo
Advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled significant capabilities in audio processing, resulting in state-of-the-art models now known as Large Audio Language Models (L…
cs.CL2026
Beyond Tokens: Concept-Level Training Objectives for LLMs
Laya Iyer, Pranav Somani, Alice Guo +2
The next-token prediction (NTP) objective has been foundational in the development of modern large language models (LLMs), driving advances in fluency and generalization. However,…