Papers by Sanyuan Chen
WavLLM: Towards Robust and Adaptive Speech Large Language Model (2024.findings-emnlp)
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Shujie Hu, Long Zhou, Shujie Liu, Sanyuan Chen, Lingwei Meng, Hongkun Hao, Jing Pan, Xunying Liu, Jinyu Li, Sunit Sivasankaran, Linquan Liu, Furu Wei
| Challenge: | Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have expanded their scope to encompass multimodal functions. |
| Approach: | They propose a robust and adaptive speech large language model with dual encoders . they validate the model on universal speech benchmarks and apply it to specialized speech-question-answer datasets based on a CoT approach . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance across a range of speech tasks on the same model size. |
Autoregressive Speech Synthesis without Vector Quantization (2025.acl-long)
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Lingwei Meng, Long Zhou, Shujie Liu, Sanyuan Chen, Bing Han, Shujie Hu, Yanqing Liu, Jinyu Li, Sheng Zhao, Xixin Wu, Helen M. Meng, Furu Wei
| Challenge: | MELLE is a novel language modeling approach for text-to-speech synthesis that generates continuous tokens from text . authors demonstrate that it reduces the need for vector quantization and improves model robustness . |
| Approach: | They propose to autoregressively generate continuous mel-spectrogram frames directly from text condition, bypassing vector quantization. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves superior performance across multiple metrics and is more streamlined. |
MPII: Multi-Level Mutual Promotion for Inference and Interpretation (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for providing interpretations provide human-unfriendly interpretations, resulting in sub-optimal performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-level Mutual Promotion mechanism for self-evolved inference and sentence-level interpretation that integrates inference with interpretation in an autoregressive manner. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms baseline models on NLI and CQA tasks for both inference performance and interpretation quality. |
Recall and Learn: Fine-tuning Deep Pretrained Language Models with Less Forgetting (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to fine-tune deep pretrained language models face catastrophic forgetting problems. |
| Approach: | They propose a recall and learn mechanism which integrates pretraining and downstream tasks into a single mechanism. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance on the GLUE benchmark and better average performance than directly fine-tuning of BERT-large. |