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Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to handle long input sequences due to high memory and runtime costs. Memory-augmented models have emerged as a promising solution to this problem, but current methods are hindered by limited memory…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Zexue He , Leonid Karlinsky , Donghyun Kim , Julian McAuley , Dmitry Krotov , Rogerio Feris

Recently, large-scale pre-trained speech encoders and Large Language Models (LLMs) have been released, which show state-of-the-art performance on a range of spoken language processing tasks including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Rao Ma , Tongzhou Chen , Kartik Audhkhasi , Bhuvana Ramabhadran

In the era of large models, the autoregressive nature of decoding often results in latency serving as a significant bottleneck. We propose a non-autoregressive LM-fused ASR system that effectively leverages the parallelization capabilities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-24 W. Ronny Huang , Cyril Allauzen , Tongzhou Chen , Kilol Gupta , Ke Hu , James Qin , Yu Zhang , Yongqiang Wang , Shuo-Yiin Chang , Tara N. Sainath

Most end-to-end (E2E) speech recognition models are composed of encoder and decoder blocks that perform acoustic and language modeling functions. Pretrained large language models (LLMs) have the potential to improve the performance of E2E…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 Shaoshi Ling , Yuxuan Hu , Shuangbei Qian , Guoli Ye , Yao Qian , Yifan Gong , Ed Lin , Michael Zeng

Conversational systems relying on text-based large language models (LLMs) often overlook paralinguistic cues, essential for understanding emotions and intentions. Speech-language models (SLMs), which use speech as input, are emerging as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chun Wang , Chenyang Liu , Wenze Xu , Weihong Deng

Using Large Language Models (LLMs) in real-world applications presents significant challenges, particularly in balancing computational efficiency with model performance. Optimizing acceleration after fine-tuning and during inference is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Sajjad Kachuee , Mohammad Sharifkhani

Large language models (LLMs) offer a powerful opportunity to simulate the results of social science experiments. In this work, we demonstrate that finetuning LLMs directly on individual-level responses from past experiments meaningfully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Akaash Kolluri , Shengguang Wu , Joon Sung Park , Michael S. Bernstein

Recent studies have successfully shown that large language models (LLMs) can be successfully used for generative error correction (GER) on top of the automatic speech recognition (ASR) output. Specifically, an LLM is utilized to carry out a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Chen Chen , Ruizhe Li , Yuchen Hu , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Pin-Yu Chen , Ensiong Chng , Chao-Han Huck Yang

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal speech-text models have laid the groundwork for seamless voice interactions, enabling real-time, natural, and human-like conversations. Previous models for voice…

Integrating large language models (LLMs) into automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become a mainstream paradigm in recent years. Although existing LLM-based ASR models demonstrate impressive performance on public benchmarks, their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Yuan Xie , Jiaqi Song , Guang Qiu , Xianliang Wang , Kai Qiao , Junfeng Yuan , Shengqing Liu , Yi Zhang , Bowen Chen , Ming Lei , Jie Gao , Jie Wu

We introduce DeSTA2.5-Audio, a general-purpose Large Audio Language Model (LALM) designed for robust auditory perception and instruction-following. Recent LALMs augment Large Language Models (LLMs) with auditory capabilities by training on…

This work explores better adaptation methods to low-resource languages using an external language model (LM) under the framework of transfer learning. We first build a language-independent ASR system in a unified sequence-to-sequence (S2S)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Hirofumi Inaguma , Jaejin Cho , Murali Karthick Baskar , Tatsuya Kawahara , Shinji Watanabe

Large Language Models (LLMs) are currently under exploration for various tasks, including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Machine Translation (MT), and even End-to-End Speech Translation (ST). In this paper, we present KIT's offline…

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Conventional end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems rely on paired speech-text data for domain adaptation. Recent LLM-based ASR architectures connect a speech encoder to a large language model via a projection module,…

Training tool-augmented LLMs has emerged as a promising approach to enhancing language models' capabilities for complex tasks. The current supervised fine-tuning paradigm relies on constructing extensive domain-specific datasets to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yirong Zeng , Xiao Ding , Yutai Hou , Yuxian Wang , Li Du , Juyi Dai , Qiuyang Ding , Duyu Tang , Dandan Tu , Weiwen Liu , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Pretrained large language models (LLMs) are currently state-of-the-art for solving the vast majority of natural language processing tasks. While many real-world applications still require fine-tuning to reach satisfactory levels of…

All-neural end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems that use a single neural network to transduce audio to word sequences have been shown to achieve state-of-the-art results on several tasks. In this work, we examine the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Arun Narayanan , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Chung-Cheng Chiu , David Rybach , Tara N. Sainath , Trevor Strohman

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities on various tasks, while the further evolvement is limited to the lack of high-quality training data. In addition, traditional training approaches rely too much on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Peidong Wang , Ming Wang , Zhiming Ma , Xiaocui Yang , Shi Feng , Daling Wang , Yifei Zhang , Kaisong Song

Large models such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) have transformed artificial intelligence, powering applications in natural language processing, computer vision, and multimodal learning. However, fully…

Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with external tools has emerged as a promising approach to extend their utility, enabling them to solve practical tasks. Previous methods manually parse tool documentation and create in-context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zhengliang Shi , Shen Gao , Lingyong Yan , Yue Feng , Xiuyi Chen , Zhumin Chen , Dawei Yin , Suzan Verberne , Zhaochun Ren