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Zheqi Dai

4 accepted papers

2026

ISSE: AN INSTRUCTION-GUIDED SPEECH STYLE EDITING DATASET AND BENCHMARK

ICASSP 2026poster

Speech style editing refers to modifying the stylistic properties of speech while preserving its linguistic content and speaker identity. However, most existing approaches depend on explicit labels or reference audio, which limits both flexibility and scalability. More recent attempts to use natural…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Measuring Audio's Impact on Correctness: Audio-Contribution-Aware Post-Training of Large Audio Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) represent an important frontier in multimodal AI, addressing diverse audio tasks. Recently, post-training of LALMs has received increasing attention due to significant performance improvements over foundation models. While single-stage post-training such as reinfo…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Codec Does Matter: Exploring the Semantic Shortcoming of Codec for Audio Language Model

AAAI 2025technical

Recent advancements in audio generation have been significantly propelled by the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). The existing research on audio LLM has primarily focused on enhancing the architecture and scale of audio language models, as well as leveraging larger datasets, and general…

2024

PyramidCodec: Hierarchical Codec for Long-form Music Generation in Audio Domain

EMNLP 2024finding

Generating well-structured long music compositions, spanning several minutes, remains a challenge due to inefficient representation and the lack of structured representation. In this paper, we propose PyramidCodec, a hierarchical discrete representation of audio, for long audio-domain music generati…