ALAS: Measuring Latent Speech-Text Alignment For Spoken Language Understanding In Multimodal LLMs

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Hauptverfasser: Mousavi, Pooneh, Wang, Yingzhi, Ravanelli, Mirco, Subakan, Cem
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author Mousavi, Pooneh
Wang, Yingzhi
Ravanelli, Mirco
Subakan, Cem
author_facet Mousavi, Pooneh
Wang, Yingzhi
Ravanelli, Mirco
Subakan, Cem
contents Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in Spoken Language Understanding (SLU), where effective multimodal learning depends on the alignment between audio and text. Despite various fusion methods, no standard metric exists to assess this alignment. This work introduces ALAS (Automatic Latent Alignment Score), a metric that evaluates alignment by measuring correlations between audio and text representations across transformer layers. Experiments on Spoken Question Answering and Emotion Recognition show that ALAS captures meaningful patterns across tasks and layers.
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spellingShingle ALAS: Measuring Latent Speech-Text Alignment For Spoken Language Understanding In Multimodal LLMs
Mousavi, Pooneh
Wang, Yingzhi
Ravanelli, Mirco
Subakan, Cem
Computation and Language
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in Spoken Language Understanding (SLU), where effective multimodal learning depends on the alignment between audio and text. Despite various fusion methods, no standard metric exists to assess this alignment. This work introduces ALAS (Automatic Latent Alignment Score), a metric that evaluates alignment by measuring correlations between audio and text representations across transformer layers. Experiments on Spoken Question Answering and Emotion Recognition show that ALAS captures meaningful patterns across tasks and layers.
title ALAS: Measuring Latent Speech-Text Alignment For Spoken Language Understanding In Multimodal LLMs
topic Computation and Language
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19937