PairAlign: A Framework for Sequence Tokenization via Self-Alignment with Applications to Audio Tokenization

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Main Authors:	Banerjee, Adhiraj, Arora, Vipul
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Machine Learning Computation and Language Sound
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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