Our #PickOfTheWeek, selected by @mgaido91: "Alignment Is All You Need: Instruction-Free Training for General Audio-Language Models" by Xuanru Zhou, Yiwen Shao, Jiahong Li, and Dong Yu 🎧
Can instruction-free training power the next generation of audio-language models?
Cool to see we are not the only ones working on building SpeechLLMs with instruction-following capabilities without requiring LLM adaptation and instruction-following data that is expensive to collect!
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18132
@fbk_mt
Our #PickOfTheWeek, selected by @BeatriceSavoldi:
"The AI Observatory: A Public Measure of Real-World AI Use" by @ShayneRedford, @AnkaReuel, @zoeykii et al.
A crucial framework tracking how AI models are deployed, adopted, and evaluated beyond lab benchmarks.
Pick of the week @fbk_mt
📚"The AI Observatory: A Public Measure of Real-World AI Use"
A study and taxonomy to explore real conversations across multiple datasets.
https://www.dataprovenance.org/ai_observatory.pdf
Can algorithmic gender prediction ever be valid?
Check out this week's top pick by @lina_conti: "Algorithmic Gender Prediction Is Illegitimate, But Gender Imputation Can Yield Valid Measurements" by @evandongyx & @ang3linawang.
Pick of the week by @evandongyx & @ang3linawang:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13444
Predicting gender from images or names can reveal discrimination. But the practice itself harms trans people. This paper works through when that tradeoff might be justified and how to do it responsibly.
Our pick of the week by
@dhairya_su47605
: "Task-Circuit Quantization: Leveraging Knowledge Localization and Interpretability for Compression" by @hanqi_xiao, @yilin_sung, @EliasEskin and @mohitban47
#Quantization #Interpretibility
#PickoftheWeek @fbk_mt
Super cool paper on leavaraging Interpretability for Compression!
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.07389