arXiv:2608. 08569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in Speech Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding complex audio tasks.
By Wenxu Jia, Dongjie Fu, Xize Cheng, Fangming Feng, Linjun Li, Wenshi Chen, Yingming Li, Zhou Zhao, Tao Jin
arXiv:2511. 20973v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) deliver strong performance across speech and audio tasks, but their audio encoders generate high-rate token sequences (e.
By Saurabhchand Bhati, Samuel Thomas, Hilde Kuehne, Rogerio Feris, James Glass
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:2607. 02119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Multimodal Models excel in comprehension, high-throughput inference engines lack native support for multimodal generation.
By Haoran Wang, Jinchuan Tian, Siddhant Arora, Shinji Watanabe
arXiv:2606. 09019v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Codec-based autoregressive (AR) speech language models have achieved strong text-to-speech (TTS) quality by modeling speech as sequences of discrete audio tokens with large pretrained backbones.
By Yejin Lee, Junwon Moon, Hyoeun Kim, Hyunjin Choi, Heeseung Kim, Kyuhong Shim
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