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Wav2vec 2.0 is a state-of-the-art speech recognition model which maps speech audio waveforms into latent representations. The largest version of wav2vec 2.0 contains 317 million parameters. Hence, the inference latency of wav2vec 2.0 will…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Zilun Peng , Akshay Budhkar , Ilana Tuil , Jason Levy , Parinaz Sobhani , Raphael Cohen , Jumana Nassour

Recent advancements in discrete token-based speech generation have highlighted the importance of token-to-waveform generation for audio quality, particularly in real-time interactions. Traditional frameworks integrating semantic tokens with…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Dake Guo , Jixun Yao , Linhan Ma , He Wang , Lei Xie

Video and audio are closely correlated modalities that humans naturally perceive together. While recent advancements have enabled the generation of audio or video from text, producing both modalities simultaneously still typically relies on…

Current discriminative depth estimation methods often produce blurry artifacts, while generative approaches suffer from slow sampling due to curvatures in the noise-to-depth transport. Our method addresses these challenges by framing depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Ming Gui , Johannes Schusterbauer , Ulrich Prestel , Pingchuan Ma , Dmytro Kotovenko , Olga Grebenkova , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Flow-based generation in high-dimensional spaces is difficult because velocity prediction requires modeling high-dimensional noise, even when data has strong low-rank structure. We present Asymmetric Flow Modeling (AsymFlow), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hansheng Chen , Jan Ackermann , Minseo Kim , Gordon Wetzstein , Leonidas Guibas

Generating high-quality time-series data is challenging because real-world signals often exhibit multimodal patterns and multiscale dynamics, including oscillations and high-frequency variations. Flow Matching (FM) offers an efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junru Zhang , Lang Feng , Jinbo Wang , Xu Guo , Yucheng Wang , Han Yu , Min Wu , Yabo Dong , Duanqing Xu

Deep neural networks can learn complex and abstract representations, that are progressively obtained by combining simpler ones. A recent trend in speech and speaker recognition consists in discovering these representations starting from raw…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-26 Mirco Ravanelli , Yoshua Bengio

The diffusion models including Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and score-based generative models have demonstrated excellent performance in speech synthesis tasks. However, its effectiveness comes at the cost of numerous…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Wenhao Guan , Qi Su , Haodong Zhou , Shiyu Miao , Xingjia Xie , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

We introduce InspireMusic, a framework integrated super resolution and large language model for high-fidelity long-form music generation. A unified framework generates high-fidelity music, songs, and audio, which incorporates an…

The recently-developed WaveNet architecture is the current state of the art in realistic speech synthesis, consistently rated as more natural sounding for many different languages than any previous system. However, because WaveNet relies on…

Recent diffusion and flow matching models have demonstrated strong capabilities in image generation and editing by progressively removing noise through iterative sampling. While this enables flexible inversion for semantic-preserving edits,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yasong Dai , Zeeshan Hayder , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Hongdong Li

For articulatory-to-acoustic mapping using deep neural networks, typically spectral and excitation parameters of vocoders have been used as the training targets. However, vocoding often results in buzzy and muffled final speech quality.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Tamás Gábor Csapó , Csaba Zainkó , László Tóth , Gábor Gosztolya , Alexandra Markó

The evaluation of audio fingerprinting at a realistic scale is limited by the scarcity of large public music databases. We present an audio-free approach that synthesises latent fingerprints which approximate the distribution of real…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Aditya Bhattacharjee , Marco Pasini , Emmanouil Benetos

We present SoundStorm, a model for efficient, non-autoregressive audio generation. SoundStorm receives as input the semantic tokens of AudioLM, and relies on bidirectional attention and confidence-based parallel decoding to generate the…

The multi-step denoising process in diffusion and Flow Matching models causes major efficiency issues, which motivates research on few-step generation. We present Solution Flow Models (SoFlow), a framework for one-step generation from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tianze Luo , Haotian Yuan , Zhuang Liu

Current auto-regressive (AR) LLMs, diffusion-based text/image generative models, and recent flow matching (FM) algorithms are capable of generating premium quality text/image samples. However, the inference or sample generation in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Minyoung Kim

Music generation in the audio domain using artificial intelligence (AI) has witnessed steady progress in recent years. However for some instruments, particularly the guitar, controllable instrument synthesis remains limited in expressivity.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jackson Loth , Pedro Sarmento , Mark Sandler , Mathieu Barthet

Coarse-to-fine autoregressive modeling has recently shown strong promise for visuomotor policy learning, combining the inference efficiency of autoregressive methods with the global trajectory coherence of diffusion-based policies. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Daichi Yashima , Koki Seno , Shuhei Kurita , Yusuke Oda , Komei Sugiura

Recent advances in large multi-modal generative models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in multi-modal generation, including image and video generation. These models are typically built upon multi-step frameworks like diffusion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhenglin Cheng , Peng Sun , Jianguo Li , Tao Lin

Today's generative neural networks allow the creation of high-quality synthetic speech at scale. While we welcome the creative use of this new technology, we must also recognize the risks. As synthetic speech is abused for monetary and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Konstantin Gasenzer , Moritz Wolter