3 papers
cs.CL2026
Linguistically Informed Evaluation of Multilingual ASR for African Languages
Fei-Yueh Chen, Lateef Adeleke, C. M. Downey
Word Error Rate (WER) mischaracterizes ASR models' performance for African languages by combining phonological, tone, and other linguistic errors into a single lexical error. By co…
cs.CL2025
DM-Codec: Distilling Multimodal Representations for Speech Tokenization
Md Mubtasim Ahasan, Md Fahim, Tasnim Mohiuddin +6
Recent advancements in speech-language models have yielded significant improvements in speech tokenization and synthesis. However, effectively mapping the complex, multidimensional…
cs.RO2025
EdgeVLA: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models
PaweÅ Budzianowski, Wesley Maa, Matthew Freed +6
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as a promising approach to address the data scarcity challenge in robotics, enabling the development of generalizable visuomotor control…