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Non-intrusive speech quality assessment (SQA) systems suffer from limited training data and costly human annotations, hindering their generalization to real-time conferencing calls. In this work, we propose leveraging large language models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Fredrik Cumlin , Xinyu Liang , Anubhab Ghosh , Saikat Chatterjee

We present our Generative Enhanced Model (GEM) that we used to create samples awarded the first prize on the FEVER 2.0 Breakers Task. GEM is the extended language model developed upon GPT-2 architecture. The addition of novel target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Piotr Niewinski , Maria Pszona , Maria Janicka

This paper introduces Zimtohrli, a novel, full-reference audio similarity metric designed for efficient and perceptually accurate quality assessment. In an era dominated by computationally intensive deep learning models and proprietary…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Jyrki Alakuijala , Martin Bruse , Sami Boukortt , Jozef Marus Coldenhoff , Milos Cernak

The objective speech quality assessment is usually conducted by comparing received speech signal with its clean reference, while human beings are capable of evaluating the speech quality without any reference, such as in the mean opinion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Meng Yu , Chunlei Zhang , Yong Xu , Shixiong Zhang , Dong Yu

This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for the evaluation and validation of generative language models (GLMs), with a focus on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems deployed in high-stakes domains such as banking. GLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Agus Sudjianto , Aijun Zhang , Srinivas Neppalli , Tarun Joshi , Michal Malohlava

Objective evaluation of audio processed with Time-Scale Modification (TSM) remains an open problem. Recently, a dataset of time-scaled audio with subjective quality labels was published and used to create an initial objective measure of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Timothy Roberts , Kuldip K. Paliwal

Besides the well-known classification task, these days neural networks are frequently being applied to generate or transform data, such as images and audio signals. In such tasks, the conventional loss functions like the mean squared error…

Traditional low bit-rate speech coding approach only handles narrowband speech at 8kHz, which limits further improvements in speech quality. Motivated by recent successful exploration of deep learning methods for image and speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Gang Min , Xiongwei Zhang , Xia Zou , Xiangyang Liu

Pretrained masked language models (MLMs) require finetuning for most NLP tasks. Instead, we evaluate MLMs out of the box via their pseudo-log-likelihood scores (PLLs), which are computed by masking tokens one by one. We show that PLLs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Julian Salazar , Davis Liang , Toan Q. Nguyen , Katrin Kirchhoff

Automatic evaluation of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems relies on fine-grained dimensions like faithfulness and relevance, as judged by expert human annotators. Meta-evaluation benchmarks support the development of automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 María Andrea Cruz Blandón , Jayasimha Talur , Bruno Charron , Dong Liu , Saab Mansour , Marcello Federico

Simple quality metrics such as PSNR are known to not correlate well with subjective quality when tested across a wide spectrum of video content or quality regime. Recently, efforts have been made in designing objective quality metrics…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Zhi Li , Christos G. Bampis

Retrieving molecular structures from tandem mass spectra is a crucial step in rapid compound identification. Existing retrieval methods, such as traditional mass spectral library matching, suffer from limited spectral library coverage,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yiwen Zhang , Keyan Ding , Yihang Wu , Xiang Zhuang , Yi Yang , Qiang Zhang , Huajun Chen

Multimodal Audio-Language Models (ALMs) can understand and reason over both audio and text. Typically, reasoning performance correlates with model size, with the best results achieved by models exceeding 8 billion parameters. However, no…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Soham Deshmukh , Satvik Dixit , Rita Singh , Bhiksha Raj

Due to the growing complexity of modern Integrated Circuits (ICs), there is a need for automated circuit design methods. Recent years have seen rising research in hardware design language generation to facilitate the design process. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Zehua Pei , Hui-Ling Zhen , Mingxuan Yuan , Yu Huang , Bei Yu

To reduce the need for skilled clinicians in heart sound interpretation, recent studies on automating cardiac auscultation have explored deep learning approaches. However, despite the demands for large data for deep learning, the size of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada , Kunio Kashino

The current landscape of research leveraging large language models (LLMs) is experiencing a surge. Many works harness the powerful reasoning capabilities of these models to comprehend various modalities, such as text, speech, images,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shansong Liu , Atin Sakkeer Hussain , Qilong Wu , Chenshuo Sun , Ying Shan

This paper proposes a single-channel speech enhancement method to reduce the noise and enhance speech at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) levels and non-stationary noise conditions. Specifically, we focus on modeling the noise using a…

Recent improvements in Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (GANs) have shown their ability to generate higher quality samples as well as to learn good representations for transfer learning. Most of the representation learning methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Kazi Nazmul Haque , Rajib Rana , John H. L. Hansen , Björn Schuller

Unstructured text in medical notes and dialogues contains rich information. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated superior performance in question answering and summarization tasks on unstructured text data,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yuhao Chen , Zhimu Wang , Bo Wen , Farhana Zulkernine

Data augmentation is a valuable tool for the design of deep learning systems to overcome data limitations and stabilize the training process. Especially in the medical domain, where the collection of large-scale data sets is challenging and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mane Margaryan , Matthias Seibold , Indu Joshi , Mazda Farshad , Philipp Fürnstahl , Nassir Navab