Research
Papers and articles I'm reading...
My Publications
Also submitted to EMNLP and AIES — stay on the lookout!
Currently Reading
Phone Segmentation and Recognition through Phonological Activation Mapping
note — An exciting paper at the frontier of phonetics research (cites Koel).
Walking Through Uncertainty: An Empirical Study of Uncertainty Estimation for Audio-Aware Large Language Models
note — Verification-based methods beat token-level likelihood baselines for uncertainty, which is neat. But it only tests Qwen Omni 2.5 and Flamingo — two fairly weak models — so I can't tell real generalization from overfitting to their reasoning quirks.
Accent Leakage in a Security Context
Towards Language-Agnostic STIPA: Universal Phonetic Transcription to Support Language Documentation at Scale
note — Whisper→IPA for endangered languages, and the confusion matrix stratified by place of articulation (nasals getting misread as diacritics!) is the gem. But why only Arabic? A 4-hour corpus is small enough to hand-annotate rather than curate by dictionary lookup, and they could have pretrained on adjacent languages.
VoiceBBQ: Investigating Effect of Content and Acoustics in Social Bias of Spoken Language Model
note — Well-scoped as a short paper but shallow. I like the instinct that llama's frozen feature encoder blocks acoustic reasoning (making it better for textual bias probing) compared to qwen — but it only tests American and British accents and fairly underdeveloped LALMs.
Hearing the Order: Investigating Position Bias in Large Audio-Language Models
note — Good spread of LALM benchmarks plus permutation fixes for ordering bias. I wish it hypothesized why the bias exists, especially between near-identical models like Qwen vs Qwen-Omni. Still chewing on their Choice KL-Divergence metric.