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Autoregressive (AR) frameworks have recently achieved remarkable progress in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) by leveraging discrete speech tokens and large language model techniques. Despite their success, existing AR-based zero-shot TTS…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jingyuan Xing , Mingru Yang , Zhipeng Li , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu

To advance continuous-valued token modeling and temporal-coherence enforcement, we propose FELLE, an autoregressive model that integrates language modeling with token-wise flow matching. By leveraging the autoregressive nature of language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Hui Wang , Shujie Liu , Lingwei Meng , Jinyu Li , Yifan Yang , Shiwan Zhao , Haiyang Sun , Yanqing Liu , Haoqin Sun , Jiaming Zhou , Yan Lu , Yong Qin

Autoregressive (AR) models have been the dominating approach to conditional sequence generation, but are suffering from the issue of high inference latency. Non-autoregressive (NAR) models have been recently proposed to reduce the latency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Zhiqing Sun , Yiming Yang

This paper introduces Parallel Tacotron 2, a non-autoregressive neural text-to-speech model with a fully differentiable duration model which does not require supervised duration signals. The duration model is based on a novel attention…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Isaac Elias , Heiga Zen , Jonathan Shen , Yu Zhang , Ye Jia , RJ Skerry-Ryan , Yonghui Wu

Non-autoregressive text-to-speech (NAR-TTS) models such as FastSpeech 2 and Glow-TTS can synthesize high-quality speech from the given text in parallel. After analyzing two kinds of generative NAR-TTS models (VAE and normalizing flow), we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Zhou Zhao

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims to clone any unseen speaker's voice without adaptation parameters. By quantizing speech waveform into discrete acoustic tokens and modeling these tokens with the language model, recent language…

Text-to-Speech (TTS) is inherently a "one-to-many" mapping characterized by intrinsic uncertainty, yet current paradigms often oversimplify it into a deterministic regression task. While continuous-valued autoregressive (AR) models have…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ziyang Zhang , Yifan Gao , Xuenan Xu , Baoxiang Li , Wen Wu , Chao Zhang

Generative Retrieval introduces a new approach to Information Retrieval by reframing it as a constrained generation task, leveraging recent advancements in Autoregressive (AR) language models. However, AR-based Generative Retrieval methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ravisri Valluri , Akash Kumar Mohankumar , Kushal Dave , Amit Singh , Jian Jiao , Manik Varma , Gaurav Sinha

Speech-to-text errors made by automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems negatively impact downstream models. Error correction models as a post-processing text editing method have been recently developed for refining the ASR outputs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ziji Zhang , Zhehui Wang , Rajesh Kamma , Sharanya Eswaran , Narayanan Sadagopan

With the advancement of deep learning techniques, the performance of Automatic Program Repair(APR) techniques has reached a new level. Previous deep learning-based APR techniques essentially modified program sentences in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhenyu Yang , Zhen Yang , Zhongxing Yu

We study reasoning tasks through a framework that integrates auto-regressive (AR) and non-autoregressive (NAR) language models. AR models, which generate text sequentially, excel at producing coherent outputs but often suffer from slow…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Qihang Ai , Haiyun Jiang

Code completion tools are frequently used by software developers to accelerate software development by suggesting the following code elements. Completing a sequence of code tokens (e.g., a full line of code) has been proved more efficient…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Fang Liu , Zhiyi Fu , Ge Li , Zhi Jin , Hui Liu , Yiyang Hao

Speech-to-text alignment is a critical component of neural textto-speech (TTS) models. Autoregressive TTS models typically use an attention mechanism to learn these alignments on-line. However, these alignments tend to be brittle and often…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Rohan Badlani , Adrian Łancucki , Kevin J. Shih , Rafael Valle , Wei Ping , Bryan Catanzaro

Transformers have recently dominated the ASR field. Although able to yield good performance, they involve an autoregressive (AR) decoder to generate tokens one by one, which is computationally inefficient. To speed up inference,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Zhifu Gao , Shiliang Zhang , Ian McLoughlin , Zhijie Yan

Non-autoregressive generation (NAG) has recently attracted great attention due to its fast inference speed. However, the generation quality of existing NAG models still lags behind their autoregressive counterparts. In this work, we show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Yixuan Su , Deng Cai , Yan Wang , David Vandyke , Simon Baker , Piji Li , Nigel Collier

Self-supervised speech representation learning (speech SSL) has demonstrated the benefit of scale in learning rich representations for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with limited paired data, such as wav2vec 2.0. We investigate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Cheng-I Jeff Lai , Yang Zhang , Alexander H. Liu , Shiyu Chang , Yi-Lun Liao , Yung-Sung Chuang , Kaizhi Qian , Sameer Khurana , David Cox , James Glass

Recently, autoregressive (AR) language models have emerged as a dominant approach in speech synthesis, offering expressive generation and scalable training. However, conventional AR speech synthesis models relying on the next-token…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Bohan Li , Zhihan Li , Haoran Wang , Hanglei Zhang , Yiwei Guo , Hankun Wang , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Current end-to-end autoregressive TTS systems (e.g. Tacotron 2) have outperformed traditional parallel approaches on the quality of synthesized speech. However, they introduce new problems at the same time. Due to the autoregressive nature,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Yahuan Cong , Ran Zhang , Jian Luan

Audio Language Models (ALM) have emerged as the dominant paradigm for speech and music generation by representing audio as sequences of discrete tokens. Yet, unlike text tokens, which are invertible, audio tokens are extracted from lossy…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Simon Rouard , Manu Orsini , Axel Roebel , Neil Zeghidour , Alexandre Défossez

Enlightened by the success of machine learning techniques in various application areas, recent years have witnessed a surge of research efforts on automatic program repair (APR) using machine learning techniques. Previous machine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Zhenyu Yang , Yue Pan , Zhen Yang , Zhongxing Yu