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Journal articles

Chen M; Zhang Q; Wang M; Zhang X; Liu H; Ambikairaiah E; Chen D, 2025, 'Selective State Space Model for Monaural Speech Enhancement', IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 71, pp. 5414 - 5424, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCE.2024.3523297

Zhang X; Zhang Q; Liu H; Xiao T; Qian X; Ahmed B; Ambikairajah E; Li H; Epps J, 2025, 'Mamba in Speech: Towards an Alternative to Self-Attention', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING, 33, pp. 1933 - 1948, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASLPRO.2025.3566210

Shu H; Liang R; Li Z; Goodridge A; Zhang X; Ding H; Nagururu N; Sahu M; Creighton FX; Taylor RH; Munawar A; Unberath M, 2023, 'Twin-S: a digital twin for skull base surgery', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOLOGY AND SURGERY, 18, pp. 1077 - 1084, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11548-023-02863-9

Conference Papers

Zafar MA; Zhang X; Shahin M; Ahmed B, 2025, 'Multi-Class Dementia Detection Using Acoustic Features - ICASSP-2025 PROCESS Challenge', in ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10889847

Zhang X; Ma J; Shahin M; Ahmed B; Epps J, 2025, 'Rethinking Mamba in Speech Processing by Self-Supervised Models', in ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10889111

Liang R; Zhang X; Li Q; Wei L; Liu H; Kumar A; Leadingham KMK; Punnoose J; Garcia LP; Manbachi A, 2024, 'UNIDIRECTIONAL BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE: ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK ENCODING NATURAL IMAGES TO fMRI RESPONSE IN THE VISUAL CORTEX', in 2024 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, ICASSP 2024, IEEE, SOUTH KOREA, Seoul, pp. 1851 - 1855, presented at 49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), SOUTH KOREA, Seoul, 14 April 2024 - 19 April 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446366

Meng H; Zhang Q; Zhang X; Sethu V; Ambikairajah E, 2024, 'Binaural Selective Attention Model for Target Speaker Extraction', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech, pp. 4323 - 4327, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2024-683

Liu H; Garcia LP; Zhang X; Khong AWH; Khudanpur S, 2024, 'ENHANCING CODE-SWITCHING SPEECH RECOGNITION WITH INTERACTIVE LANGUAGE BIASES', in ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings, pp. 10886 - 10890, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10448335

Zhang X; Liu D; Liu H; Zhang Q; Meng H; Garcia LP; Chng ES; Yao L, 2024, 'Speaking in Wavelet Domain: A Simple and Efficient Approach to Speed up Speech Diffusion Model', in Emnlp 2024 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Proceedings of the Conference, pp. 159 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.9

Joshi A; Renzella J; Bhattacharyya P; Jha S; Zhang X, 2024, 'Striking a Balance between Classical and Deep Learning Approaches in Natural Language Processing Pedagogy', in Teachnlp 2024 6th Workshop on Teaching Nlp Proceedings of the Workshop, pp. 23 - 32

Zhang X; Liu H; Xu K; Zhang Q; Liu D; Ahmed B; Epps J, 2024, 'When LLMs Meet Acoustic Landmarks: An Efficient Approach to Integrate Speech into Large Language Models for Depression Detection', in Emnlp 2024 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Proceedings of the Conference, pp. 146 - 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.8

Chua VYH; Liu H; Perera LPG; Woon FT; Wong J; Zhang X; Khudanpur S; Khong AWH; Dauwels J; Styles SJ, 2023, 'MERLIon CCS Challenge: A English-Mandarin code-switching child-directed speech corpus for language identification and diarization', in INTERSPEECH 2023, ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC, IRELAND, Dublin, pp. 4109 - 4113, presented at Interspeech Conference, IRELAND, Dublin, 20 August 2023 - 24 August 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1446

Xuan Y; Zhang X; Li SS; Shen Z; Xie X; Garcia LP; Togneri R, 2023, 'A New Approach to Extract Fetal Electrocardiogram Using Affine Combination of Adaptive Filters', in ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, pp. 1 - 5, presented at ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 04 June 2023 - 10 June 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icassp49357.2023.10095885

Li SS; Zhang X; Zhou S; Shu H; Liang R; Liu H; Garcia LP, 2023, 'PQLM - Multilingual Decentralized Portable Quantum Language Model', in ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, pp. 1 - 5, presented at ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 04 June 2023 - 10 June 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icassp49357.2023.10095215

Preprints

Zhang X; Fang F; Gao P; Qin B; Ahmed B; Epps J, 2025, Distinctive Feature Codec: Adaptive Segmentation for Efficient Speech Representation, http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18516v1

Zhang X; Ahmed B; Epps J, 2025, Why Pre-trained Models Fail: Feature Entanglement in Multi-modal Depression Detection, http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06620v1

Zhang X; Liu H; Zhang Q; Ahmed B; Epps J, 2025, SpeechT-RAG: Reliable Depression Detection in LLMs with Retrieval-Augmented Generation Using Speech Timing Information, http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10950v2

Zhang X; Liu D; Xiao T; Xiao C; Szalay T; Shahin M; Ahmed B; Epps J, 2024, Auto-Landmark: Acoustic Landmark Dataset and Open-Source Toolkit for Landmark Extraction, http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07969v2

Zhang X; Ma J; Shahin M; Ahmed B; Epps J, 2024, Rethinking Mamba in Speech Processing by Self-Supervised Models, http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07273v1

Zhang X; Zhang Q; Liu H; Xiao T; Qian X; Ahmed B; Ambikairajah E; Li H; Epps J, 2024, Mamba in Speech: Towards an Alternative to Self-Attention, http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12609v6

Joshi A; Renzella J; Bhattacharyya P; Jha S; Zhang X, 2024, Striking a Balance between Classical and Deep Learning Approaches in Natural Language Processing Pedagogy, http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09854v2

Zhang X; Liu H; Xu K; Zhang Q; Liu D; Ahmed B; Epps J, 2024, When LLMs Meets Acoustic Landmarks: An Efficient Approach to Integrate Speech into Large Language Models for Depression Detection, http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13276v2

Zhang X; Liu D; Liu H; Zhang Q; Meng H; Garcia LP; Chng ES; Yao L, 2024, Speaking in Wavelet Domain: A Simple and Efficient Approach to Speed up Speech Diffusion Model, http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10642v2

Li SS; Zhang X; Zhou S; Shu H; Liang R; Liu H; Garcia LP, 2022, PQLM -- Multilingual Decentralized Portable Quantum Language Model for Privacy Protection, http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03221v5

Zhang X; Li SS; He Z; Togneri R; Garcia LP, 2022, End-to-End Lyrics Recognition with Self-supervised Learning, http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.12702v4


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