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AudioTQ: A Data-Oblivious 6-Bit CPU Audio Codec via Randomized Hadamard Rotation and Lloyd-Max Quantization

arXiv:2608. 15369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lossy audio compression algorithms traditionally rely on psychoacoustic modeling and frequency-domain representations (e.

arXiv AI
Jun 8

Benchmarking Language Modeling for Lossless Compression of Full-Fidelity Audio

arXiv:2603. 08683v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive "language" models (LMs) trained on raw waveforms can be repurposed for lossless audio compression, but prior work is limited to 8-bit audio, leaving open whether such approaches work for practical settings (16/24-bit) and can compete with existing codecs.

By Phillip Long, Zachary Novack, Chris Donahue
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

ZipCodec: Ultra-Low-Frame-Rate Streaming Speech Coding

ZipCodec is a streaming neural speech codec that operates at an ultra‑low frame rate of 6.25 Hz and a bitrate of 0.80 kbps, achieving a theoretical latency of 160 ms. It leverages large‑scale WavLM distillation, a redesigned transformer architecture, a scalar spherical quantizer, and a latency‑aware streaming decoder to preserve reconstruction quality while reducing frame rate. Experiments demonstrate that ZipCodec outperforms existing streaming codecs at comparable bitrates in both reconstruction and downstream tasks, and it can run real‑time single‑stream inference on a consumer‑grade CPU despite having 842 M parameters.

By Luca Della Libera, Cem Subakan, Mirco Ravanelli
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 10

ZipCodec: Ultra-Low-Frame-Rate Streaming Speech Coding

ZipCodec is a streaming neural speech codec that operates at an ultra‑low frame rate of 6.25 Hz and a bitrate of 0.80 kbps, achieving a theoretical latency of 160 ms. It leverages large‑scale WavLM distillation, a redesigned transformer architecture, a scalar spherical quantizer, and a latency‑aware streaming decoder. Experiments demonstrate that ZipCodec outperforms existing streaming codecs at comparable bitrates in both reconstruction quality and downstream tasks, while remaining real‑time on a consumer‑grade CPU despite its 842 M parameters.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Statistically-Lossless Quantization of Large Language Models

arXiv:2605. 02404v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Model quantization has become essential for efficient large language model deployment, yet existing approaches present clear trade-offs: methods such as GPTQ and AWQ achieve practical compression but are lossy, while lossless techniques preserve fidelity but lack inference acceleration.

By Michael Helcig, Eldar Kurtic, Dan Alistarh