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5 papers

cs.CL2025

Foundation Model-based Evaluation of Neuropsychiatric Disorders: A Lifespan-Inclusive, Multi-Modal, and Multi-Lingual Study

Zhongren Dong, Haotian Guo, Weixiang Xu +2

Neuropsychiatric disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), depression, and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), are characterized by linguistic and acoustic abnormalities, offering p…

cs.SD2025

SACodec: Asymmetric Quantization with Semantic Anchoring for Low-Bitrate High-Fidelity Neural Speech Codecs

Zhongren Dong, Bin Wang, Jing Han +4

Neural Speech Codecs face a fundamental trade-off at low bitrates: preserving acoustic fidelity often compromises semantic richness. To address this, we introduce SACodec, a novel…

cs.SD2024

ParaLBench: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Computational Paralinguistics over Acoustic Foundation Models

Zixing Zhang, Weixiang Xu, Zhongren Dong +5

Computational paralinguistics (ComParal) aims to develop algorithms and models to automatically detect, analyze, and interpret non-verbal information from speech communication, e.…

cs.SD2024

Re-Parameterization of Lightweight Transformer for On-Device Speech Emotion Recognition

Zixing Zhang, Zhongren Dong, Weixiang Xu +1

With the increasing implementation of machine learning models on edge or Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, deploying advanced models on resource-constrained IoT devices remains cha…

cs.SD2024

HAFFormer: A Hierarchical Attention-Free Framework for Alzheimer's Disease Detection From Spontaneous Speech

Zhongren Dong, Zixing Zhang, Weixiang Xu +3

Automatically detecting Alzheimer's Disease (AD) from spontaneous speech plays an important role in its early diagnosis. Recent approaches highly rely on the Transformer architectu…