Papers by Xunlong Wang
MERaLiON-AudioLLM: Advancing Speech and Language Understanding for Singapore (2025.acl-demo)
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Yingxu He, Zhuohan Liu, Geyu Lin, Shuo Sun, Bin Wang, Wenyu Zhang, Xunlong Zou, Nancy F. Chen, AiTi Aw
| Challenge: | MERaLiON-AudioLLM is the first general-purpose audio-based large language model for multitask learning. |
| Approach: | They introduce MERaLiON-AudioLLM, a general-purpose audio-based large language model for multitask learning with a focus on Singlish understanding. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model exhibits strong generalization across a diverse set of tasks . it is a leading solution for region-specific AI applications. |
AudioBench: A Universal Benchmark for Audio Large Language Models (2025.naacl-long)
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Bin Wang, Xunlong Zou, Geyu Lin, Shuo Sun, Zhuohan Liu, Wenyu Zhang, Zhengyuan Liu, AiTi Aw, Nancy F. Chen
| Challenge: | Existing evaluation regimes for audio large language models do not cover the breadth of their possible use cases. |
| Approach: | They propose to use AudioBench to evaluate audio large language models . they found that no single model excels consistently across all tasks . |
| Outcome: | The proposed evaluation targets speech understanding, audio scene understanding, and voice understanding (paralinguistic) . no single model excels consistently across all tasks, the paper found . |
Influence-based Online Experience Selection for Effective RLHF (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for RL fail to establish an interpretable connection between data and optimization objectives. |
| Approach: | They propose a data selection method that dynamically estimates the influence of individual training samples on policy optimization. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly improves training effectiveness with fewer optimization steps. |