The paper investigates how attention dynamics evolve across recurrent depth in language models, finding that attention support stabilizes early while hidden states and outputs take longer. It proposes WISE, a training‑free method that uses full attention in early steps and then reuses the discovered sparse working set for later steps, preserving performance on multi‑hop QA tasks. Experiments show that WISE maintains quality up to 2K context, offers measurable speedups, and highlights the importance of recurrent discovery of attention support.
By Ke Wan, Chen Chen
arXiv:2606. 17417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) achieve strong performance on a variety of audio understanding tasks but continue to struggle with temporal reasoning, a fundamental capability central to human auditory perception.
By Apoorva Kulkarni, Kaousheik Jayakumar, Sreyan Ghosh, Sarah Wiegreffe, Dinesh Manocha, Ramani Duraiswami
The study applies causal tracing to large audio language models (LALMs) to uncover how they fuse acoustic and textual information. Layer‑wise analysis reveals distinct fusion strategies—progressive integration in DeSTA versus abrupt late‑stage fusion in Qwen—while token‑wise analysis identifies the final sequence token as an informational bottleneck that decisively retrieves audio content. Additionally, an attention‑like query mechanism at intermediate tokens is observed, prompting the model to pull task‑relevant audio context.
By Wei-Chih Chen, Chien-yu Huang, Hung-yi Lee
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
Encore is a new framework for generating long, synchronized audio‑video content. It splits the problem into local continuity, handled by iterative chunk‑wise synthesis with cross‑chunk context, and global consistency, enforced through reference audio‑video signals with shifted position embeddings. The Adaptive Signal Routing mechanism learns attention biases and residual scales to modulate the influence of each conditioning signal, enabling end‑to‑end joint audio‑video generation and infinite‑length inference.
By Shaohua Pan, Junbao Chen, Shengyi He, Jingfeng Xue, Wen Tao, Haocheng Feng, Siming Fan, Dongwei Pan, Yi Yang, Wei He, Hang Zhou
arXiv:2608. 13817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human speech production is constrained by physiology, giving rise to characteristic temporal structure on acoustic signals.
By Tom\'as Andrade Weber