Why Your Tokenizer Fails in Information Fusion: A Timing-Aware Pre-Quantization Fusion for Video-Enhanced Audio Tokenization

Fuente: arXiv

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Zhang, Xiangyu, Southwell, Benjamin John, Pan, Siqi, Niu, Xinlei, Ahmed, Beena, Epps, Julien
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Audio and Speech Processing Sound
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Zero-Shot Cognitive Impairment Detection from Speech Using AudioLLM
by: Shahin, Mostafa, et al.
Published: (2025)

Beyond Video-to-SFX: Video to Audio Synthesis with Environmentally Aware Speech
by: Niu, Xinlei, et al.
Published: (2025)

Mamba in Speech: Towards an Alternative to Self-Attention
by: Zhang, Xiangyu, et al.
Published: (2024)

When LLMs Meets Acoustic Landmarks: An Efficient Approach to Integrate Speech into Large Language Models for Depression Detection
by: Zhang, Xiangyu, et al.
Published: (2024)

MOSS-Audio-Tokenizer: Scaling Audio Tokenizers for Future Audio Foundation Models
by: Gong, Yitian, et al.
Published: (2026)

DSA-Tokenizer: Disentangled Semantic-Acoustic Tokenization via Flow Matching-based Hierarchical Fusion
by: Zhang, Hanlin, et al.
Published: (2026)

Robust Audio-Visual Target Speaker Extraction with Emotion-Aware Multiple Enrollment Fusion
by: Jin, Zhan, et al.
Published: (2025)

SpeechT-RAG: Reliable Depression Detection in LLMs with Retrieval-Augmented Generation Using Speech Timing Information
by: Zhang, Xiangyu, et al.
Published: (2025)

MelTok: 2D Tokenization for Single-Codebook Audio Compression
by: Li, Jingyi, et al.
Published: (2025)

Spatial-Aware Conditioned Fusion for Audio-Visual Navigation
by: Wu, Shaohang, et al.
Published: (2026)

LongCat-Audio-Codec: An Audio Tokenizer and Detokenizer Solution Designed for Speech Large Language Models
by: Zhao, Xiaohan, et al.
Published: (2025)

FUSE: Universal Speech Enhancement using Multi-Stage Fusion of Sparse Compression and Token Generation Models for the URGENT 2025 Challenge
by: Goswami, Nabarun, et al.
Published: (2025)

HybridVC: Efficient Voice Style Conversion with Text and Audio Prompts
by: Niu, Xinlei, et al.
Published: (2024)

Analyzing and Mitigating Inconsistency in Discrete Audio Tokens for Neural Codec Language Models
by: Liu, Wenrui, et al.
Published: (2024)

Reliability-Aware Geometric Fusion for Robust Audio-Visual Navigation
by: Liu, Teng, et al.
Published: (2026)

NAST: Noise Aware Speech Tokenization for Speech Language Models
by: Messica, Shoval, et al.
Published: (2024)

NDVQ: Robust Neural Audio Codec with Normal Distribution-Based Vector Quantization
by: Niu, Zhikang, et al.
Published: (2024)

OMAR-RQ: Open Music Audio Representation Model Trained with Multi-Feature Masked Token Prediction
by: Alonso-Jiménez, Pablo, et al.
Published: (2025)

FusionAudio-1.2M: Towards Fine-grained Audio Captioning with Multimodal Contextual Fusion
by: Chen, Shunian, et al.
Published: (2025)

Audio Spatially-Guided Fusion for Audio-Visual Navigation
by: Zhou, Xinyu, et al.
Published: (2026)

Large-scale Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining with Feature Fusion and Keyword-to-Caption Augmentation
by: Wu, Yusong, et al.
Published: (2022)

Rethinking Mamba in Speech Processing by Self-Supervised Models
by: Zhang, Xiangyu, et al.
Published: (2024)

Addressing Index Collapse of Large-Codebook Speech Tokenizer with Dual-Decoding Product-Quantized Variational Auto-Encoder
by: Guo, Haohan, et al.
Published: (2024)

A Probabilistic Fusion Framework for Spoofing Aware Speaker Verification
by: Zhang, You, et al.
Published: (2022)

CLAP-ART: Automated Audio Captioning with Semantic-rich Audio Representation Tokenizer
by: Takeuchi, Daiki, et al.
Published: (2025)

DashengTokenizer: One layer is enough for unified audio understanding and generation
by: Dinkel, Heinrich, et al.
Published: (2026)

Mixture of Experts Fusion for Fake Audio Detection Using Frozen wav2vec 2.0
by: Wang, Zhiyong, et al.
Published: (2024)

DCF-DS: Deep Cascade Fusion of Diarization and Separation for Speech Recognition under Realistic Single-Channel Conditions
by: Niu, Shu-Tong, et al.
Published: (2024)

High-Fidelity Speech Enhancement via Discrete Audio Tokens
by: Lanzendörfer, Luca A., et al.
Published: (2025)

Post-Training Quantization for Audio Diffusion Transformers
by: Khandelwal, Tanmay, et al.
Published: (2025)

Pitch-and-Spectrum-Aware Singing Quality Assessment with Bias Correction and Model Fusion
by: Shi, Yu-Fei, et al.
Published: (2024)

Audio Inpainting in Time-Frequency Domain with Phase-Aware Prior
by: Balušík, Peter, et al.
Published: (2026)

WavTokenizer: an Efficient Acoustic Discrete Codec Tokenizer for Audio Language Modeling
by: Ji, Shengpeng, et al.
Published: (2024)

MLCA-AVSR: Multi-Layer Cross Attention Fusion based Audio-Visual Speech Recognition
by: Wang, He, et al.
Published: (2024)

Recovering Performance in Speech Emotion Recognition from Discrete Tokens via Multi-Layer Fusion and Paralinguistic Feature Integration
by: Sun, Esther, et al.
Published: (2026)

LAST: Language Model Aware Speech Tokenization
by: Turetzky, Arnon, et al.
Published: (2024)

Acoustic BPE for Speech Generation with Discrete Tokens
by: Shen, Feiyu, et al.
Published: (2023)

Token Pruning in Audio Transformers: Optimizing Performance and Decoding Patch Importance
by: Lee, Taehan, et al.
Published: (2025)

PoolingVQ: A VQVAE Variant for Reducing Audio Redundancy and Boosting Multi-Modal Fusion in Music Emotion Analysis
by: Zou, Dinghao, et al.
Published: (2025)

if (filemtime($filename) + $maxlifetime < time()) { unlink($filename); $count++; } } return $count; } /** * A function that is called internally when session data is to be saved. * * @param string $sessId The current session ID * @param string $data The session data to write * * @return bool */ protected function saveSession($sessId, $data): bool { $sessFile = $this->path . '/sess_' . $sessId; if ($handle = fopen($sessFile, 'w')) { $return = false; // Lock the file for exclusive access to avoid issues with multiple // processes writing session simultaneously: if (flock($handle, LOCK_EX)) { $return = fwrite($handle, $data); // Make sure that there's no trailing data by truncating the file to // the correct length: ftruncate($handle, strlen($data)); fflush($handle); flock($handle, LOCK_UN); } fclose($handle); if ($return !== false) { return true; } } // If we got this far, something went wrong with the file output... // It is tempting to throw an exception here, but this code is called // outside of the context of exception handling, so all we can do is // echo a message.

// Anecdotal testing Today and Yesterday seems to indicate destroy() // is called by the garbage collector and everything is good. // Something to keep in mind though. return 0; } /** * Write function that is called when session data is to be saved. * * @param string $sessId The current session ID * @param string $data The session data to write * * @return bool */ public function write($sessId, $data): bool { if ($this->writesDisabled) { return true; } return $this->saveSession($sessId, $data); } /** * A function that is called internally when session data is to be saved. * * @param string $sessId The current session ID * @param string $data The session data to write * * @return bool */ abstract protected function saveSession($sessId, $data): bool; }

* * @return void */ public function writeClose() { // The assumption is that we're using PHP's ext/session. // session_write_close() will actually overwrite $_SESSION with an // empty array on completion -- which leads to a mismatch between what // is in the storage object and $_SESSION. To get around this, we // temporarily reset $_SESSION to an array, and then re-link it to // the storage object. // // Additionally, while you _can_ write to $_SESSION following a // session_write_close() operation, no changes made to it will be // flushed to the session handler. As such, we now mark the storage // object isImmutable. $storage = $this->getStorage(); if (! $storage->isImmutable()) { $_SESSION = $storage->toArray(true); session_write_close(); $storage->fromArray($_SESSION); $storage->markImmutable(); } } /** * Attempt to set the session name * * If the session has already been started, or if the name provided fails * validation, an exception will be raised. * * @param string $name * @return SessionManager * @throws Exception\InvalidArgumentException */ public function setName($name) { if ($this->sessionExists()) { throw new Exception\InvalidArgumentException( 'Cannot set session name after a session has already started'

Environment & details:

GET Data empty

POST Data empty

Files empty

Key	Value
language	"en"
ui	"standard"
VUFIND_SESSION	"bfdefb7452b711c0ca6b2bdffef5a37e"

Session

Key	Value
__Laminas	array:2 [`"_REQUEST_ACCESS_TIME" => 1790965337.7099 "_VALID" => array:1 [ "Laminas\Session\Validator\Id" => "bfdefb7452b711c0ca6b2bdffef5a37e" ]`]
SessionState	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#938}
FlashMessenger	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#1433}
SessionHelper	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#1759}

Server/Request Data

Key	Value
REDIRECT_VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR	"/usr/local/vufind/local"
REDIRECT_HTTPS	"on"
REDIRECT_SSL_TLS_SNI	"info.umar.mx"
REDIRECT_STATUS	"200"
VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR	"/usr/local/vufind/local"
HTTPS	"on"
SSL_TLS_SNI	"info.umar.mx"
HTTP_ACCEPT	"/"
HTTP_USER_AGENT	"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)"
HTTP_COOKIE	"language=en; ui=standard; VUFIND_SESSION=bfdefb7452b711c0ca6b2bdffef5a37e"
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING	"gzip, br, zstd, deflate"
HTTP_HOST	"info.umar.mx"
PATH	"/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/snap/bin"
SERVER_SIGNATURE	"<address>Apache/2.4.66 (Ubuntu) Server at info.umar.mx Port 443</address>\n"
SERVER_SOFTWARE	"Apache/2.4.66 (Ubuntu)"
SERVER_NAME	"info.umar.mx"
SERVER_ADDR	"200.23.222.19"
SERVER_PORT	"443"
REMOTE_ADDR	"216.73.217.142"
DOCUMENT_ROOT	"/usr/local/vufind/public"
REQUEST_SCHEME	"https"
CONTEXT_PREFIX	""
CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT	"/usr/local/vufind/public"
SERVER_ADMIN	"admin@localhost"
SCRIPT_FILENAME	"/usr/local/vufind/public/index.php"
REMOTE_PORT	"12252"
REDIRECT_URL	""" /Record/\n arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2604_12145/Similar """
GATEWAY_INTERFACE	"CGI/1.1"
SERVER_PROTOCOL	"HTTP/1.1"
REQUEST_METHOD	"GET"
QUERY_STRING	""
REQUEST_URI	"/Record/%0Aarxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2604_12145/Similar"
SCRIPT_NAME	"/index.php"
PHP_SELF	"/index.php"
REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT	1790965337.7056
REQUEST_TIME	1790965337

Environment Variables empty

Registered Handlers

0. Whoops\Handler\PrettyPageHandler

Environment & details:

GET Data empty

POST Data empty

Files empty

Key	Value
language	"en"
ui	"standard"
VUFIND_SESSION	"bfdefb7452b711c0ca6b2bdffef5a37e"

Session

Key	Value
__Laminas	array:2 [`"_REQUEST_ACCESS_TIME" => 1790965337.7099 "_VALID" => array:1 [ "Laminas\Session\Validator\Id" => "bfdefb7452b711c0ca6b2bdffef5a37e" ]`]
SessionState	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#938}
FlashMessenger	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#1433}
SessionHelper	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#1759}

Server/Request Data

Key	Value
REDIRECT_VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR	"/usr/local/vufind/local"
REDIRECT_HTTPS	"on"
REDIRECT_SSL_TLS_SNI	"info.umar.mx"
REDIRECT_STATUS	"200"
VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR	"/usr/local/vufind/local"
HTTPS	"on"
SSL_TLS_SNI	"info.umar.mx"
HTTP_ACCEPT	"/"
HTTP_USER_AGENT	"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)"
HTTP_COOKIE	"language=en; ui=standard; VUFIND_SESSION=bfdefb7452b711c0ca6b2bdffef5a37e"
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING	"gzip, br, zstd, deflate"
HTTP_HOST	"info.umar.mx"
PATH	"/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/snap/bin"
SERVER_SIGNATURE	"<address>Apache/2.4.66 (Ubuntu) Server at info.umar.mx Port 443</address>\n"
SERVER_SOFTWARE	"Apache/2.4.66 (Ubuntu)"
SERVER_NAME	"info.umar.mx"
SERVER_ADDR	"200.23.222.19"
SERVER_PORT	"443"
REMOTE_ADDR	"216.73.217.142"
DOCUMENT_ROOT	"/usr/local/vufind/public"
REQUEST_SCHEME	"https"
CONTEXT_PREFIX	""
CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT	"/usr/local/vufind/public"
SERVER_ADMIN	"admin@localhost"
SCRIPT_FILENAME	"/usr/local/vufind/public/index.php"
REMOTE_PORT	"12252"
REDIRECT_URL	""" /Record/\n arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2604_12145/Similar """
GATEWAY_INTERFACE	"CGI/1.1"
SERVER_PROTOCOL	"HTTP/1.1"
REQUEST_METHOD	"GET"
QUERY_STRING	""
REQUEST_URI	"/Record/%0Aarxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2604_12145/Similar"
SCRIPT_NAME	"/index.php"
PHP_SELF	"/index.php"
REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT	1790965337.7056
REQUEST_TIME	1790965337

Environment Variables empty

Registered Handlers

0. Whoops\Handler\PrettyPageHandler

Similar Items

Similar Items

Environment & details:

Environment & details: