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Activation steering has proven effective for controlling the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs) at inference time, but its application to SpeechLLMs remains new, and training-free steering approaches for such models are still largely unexplored. We propose a training-free Contrastive Activation Addition (CAA) pro …
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Self-supervised learning (SSL) is standard for speech representation learning, but mainstream models are designed around single-speaker audio, limiting their usefulness in multi-speakers scenarios. We present SepRQ, an open-source SSL framework that replaces masked prediction with a pseudo-source-separation objective o …
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Speech self-supervised learning aims to learn general-purpose representations for downstream speech tasks. However, current approaches rely on complex, carefully designed prediction targets. We challenge this necessity with GLaS-JEPA, a framework that directly predicts the current encoder's continuous representations a …