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The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has improved the prospects for robotic tasks. However, existing benchmarks are still limited to single tasks with limited generalization capabilities. In this work, we introduce a comprehensive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jingyao Li , Pengguang Chen , Sitong Wu , Chuanyang Zheng , Hong Xu , Jiaya Jia

Automated audio captioning (AAC) has developed rapidly in recent years, involving acoustic signal processing and natural language processing to generate human-readable sentences for audio clips. The current models are generally based on the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Zhongjie Ye , Helin Wang , Dongchao Yang , Yuexian Zou

Encoder-decoder models have achieved remarkable success in speech and text tasks, yet efficiently adapting these models to diverse uni/multi-modal scenarios remains an open challenge. In this paper, we propose Whisper-UT, a unified and…

The rise of deepfake technologies has posed significant challenges to privacy, security, and information integrity, particularly in audio and multimedia content. This paper introduces a Quantum-Trained Convolutional Neural Network (QT-CNN)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Chu-Hsuan Abraham Lin , Chen-Yu Liu , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Kuan-Cheng Chen

Neural audio codecs are initially introduced to compress audio data into compact codes to reduce transmission latency. Researchers recently discovered the potential of codecs as suitable tokenizers for converting continuous audio into…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Haibin Wu , Xuanjun Chen , Yi-Cheng Lin , Kai-wei Chang , Ho-Lam Chung , Alexander H. Liu , Hung-yi Lee

Autoregressive (AR) models excel at generating temporally coherent audio by producing tokens sequentially, yet they often falter in faithfully following complex textual prompts, especially those describing complex sound events. We uncover a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Juncheng Wang , Zhe Hu , Chao Xu , Siyue Ren , Yuxiang Feng , Yang Liu , Baigui Sun , Shujun Wang

Unifying multimodal understanding, generation and reconstruction representation in a single tokenizer remains a key challenge in building unified models. Previous research predominantly attempts to address this in a dual encoder paradigm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Sinan Du , Jiahao Guo , Bo Li , Shuhao Cui , Zhengzhuo Xu , Yifu Luo , Yongxian Wei , Kun Gai , Xinggang Wang , Kai Wu , Chun Yuan

In this paper, we propose a single multi-task learning framework to perform End-to-End (E2E) speech recognition (ASR) and accent recognition (AR) simultaneously. The proposed framework is not only more compact but can also yield comparable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Jicheng Zhang , Yizhou Peng , Pham Van Tung , Haihua Xu , Hao Huang , Eng Siong Chng

To optimize the reasoning and problem-solving capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), we propose a novel cloud-edge collaborative architecture that enables a structured multi-agent prompting framework. This framework comprises three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Shadikur Rahman , Aroosa Hameed , Gautam Srivastava , Syed Muhammad Danish

Recent advancements in Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) have propelled them to the forefront of various generative tasks. However, their iterative sampling process poses a significant computational burden, resulting in slow generation speeds…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Huadai Liu , Rongjie Huang , Yang Liu , Hengyuan Cao , Jialei Wang , Xize Cheng , Siqi Zheng , Zhou Zhao

In this paper, we present a vocoder-free framework for audio super-resolution that employs a flow matching generative model to capture the conditional distribution of complex-valued spectral coefficients. Unlike conventional two-stage…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Woongjib Choi , Sangmin Lee , Hyungseob Lim , Hong-Goo Kang

We present an agentic AI framework for autonomous multimodal query processing that coordinates specialized tools across text, image, audio, video, and document modalities. A central Supervisor dynamically decomposes user queries, delegates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Mayank Saini , Arit Kumar Bishwas

Quantum annealing offers a promising paradigm for solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems, but its practical application is severely hindered by two challenges: the complex, manual process of translating problem descriptions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Huixiang Zhang , Mahzabeen Emu , Salimur Choudhury

Despite the rapid progress in automatic speech recognition (ASR) research, recognizing multilingual speech using a unified ASR system remains highly challenging. Previous works on multilingual speech recognition mainly focus on two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jinchuan Tian , Jianwei Yu , Chunlei Zhang , Chao Weng , Yuexian Zou , Dong Yu

High-quality, large-scale audio captioning is crucial for advancing audio understanding, yet current automated methods often generate captions that lack fine-grained detail and contextual accuracy, primarily due to their reliance on limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shunian Chen , Xinyuan Xie , Zheshu Chen , Liyan Zhao , Owen Lee , Zhan Su , Qilin Sun , Benyou Wang

Audio-driven talking head generation aims to create vivid and realistic videos from a static portrait and speech. Existing AR-based methods rely on intermediate facial representations, which limit their expressiveness and realism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yuzhe Weng , Haotian Wang , Yuanhong Yu , Jun Du , Shan He , Xiaoyan Wu , Haoran Xu

Audio codecs are typically transform-domain based and efficiently code stationary audio signals, but they struggle with speech and signals containing dense transient events such as applause. Specifically, with these two classes of signals…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Arijit Biswas , Dai Jia

Effective speech representations for spoken language models must balance semantic relevance with acoustic fidelity for high-quality reconstruction. However, existing approaches struggle to achieve both simultaneously. To address this, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Amir Hussein , Sameer Khurana , Gordon Wichern , Francois G. Germain , Jonathan Le Roux

Precisely controlling Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate efficient and concise code is a central challenge in software engineering. We introduce a framework based on Test-Driven Development (TDD) that transforms code specification…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Huixiang Zhang , Mahzabeen Emu

Despite advances in text and visual generation, creating coherent long-form audio narratives remains challenging. Existing frameworks often exhibit limitations such as mismatched character settings with voice performance, insufficient…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yiming Ren , Xuenan Xu , Ziyang Zhang , Wen Wu , Baoxiang Li , Chao Zhang