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Weiqiao Shan

4 accepted papers

2025

Enhancing Speech Large Language Models with Prompt-Aware Mixture of Audio Encoders

EMNLP 2025

Connecting audio encoders with large language models (LLMs) allows the LLM to perform various audio understanding tasks, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and audio captioning (AC). Most research focuses on training an adapter layer to generate a unified audio feature for the LLM. However,

2025

Leveraging Unit Language Guidance to Advance Speech Modeling in Textless Speech-to-Speech Translation

ACL 2025finding

The success of building textless speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) models has attracted much attention. However, S2ST still faces two main challenges: 1) extracting linguistic features for various speech signals, called cross-modal (CM), and 2) learning alignment of difference languages in long se…

2025

Optimizing Speech Multi-View Feature Fusion through Conditional Computation

ICASSP 2025accepted

Recent advancements have highlighted the efficacy of self-supervised learning (SSL) features in various speech-related tasks, providing lightweight and versatile multi-view speech representations. However, our study reveals that while SSL features expedite model convergence, they conflict with tradi…

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2024

PartialFormer: Modeling Part Instead of Whole for Machine Translation

ACL 2024findings

The design choices in Transformer feed-forward neural networks have resulted in significant computational and parameter overhead. In this work, we emphasize the importance of hidden dimensions in designing lightweight FFNs, a factor often overlooked in previous architectures. Guided by this principl…