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FastSLM: Hierarchical Temporal Abstraction for Efficient Long-Form Speech Adaptation

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arXiv:2601. 06199v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to long-form speech is bottlenecked by the explosive growth of input tokens.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

Encode Once, Decode Never: Reusing Audio LM Internals for Efficient Temporal Localization

arXiv:2602. 10230v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Audio language models process input audio into rich frame-level representations, but the standard approach to temporal localization generates timestamps as sequences of text tokens, which discards the frame-level representations in favor of autoregressive decoding.

By Joseph An, Phillip Keung, Jiaqi Wang, Orevaoghene Ahia, Noah A. Smith
arXiv Computation and Language
6d ago

Symbiotic Architecture for Post-Hoc Audio Extension of Frozen Language Models

The paper introduces a symbiotic architecture that equips large language models with audio‑understanding abilities without fine‑tuning their weights. It uses an injector module to write audio‑conditioned vectors into the LLM’s key‑value cache, allowing the model to act as an audio language model while keeping the backbone unchanged. The approach improves scalability—since injection cost depends on the injector width—and preserves the LLM’s original text performance, outperforming conventional frozen‑LLM methods and approaching fine‑tuned ALM results on audio tasks.

By Yotaro Kubo, Qi Sun, Yujin Tang