Enzhi Wang

Yuhang Jia, Xu Zhang, Yang Chen et al.

Automatic mean opinion score (MOS) prediction serves as a principled alternative to both subjective listening tests and objective metrics, providing scalable and consistent audio evaluation. Inspired by the LLM-as-Judge paradigm, recent multimodal large language models offer strong perceptual modeling and reasoning capabilities, enabling audio quality assessment. In this work, we address the challenging problem of audio editing evaluation and propose the first natural language-based automated evaluation framework built upon Qwen2-Audio. Two caption-based fine-tuning tasks are introduced to enhance multi-audio understanding, together with a designed Chain-of-Thought prompting strategy to encourage structured, step-by-step reasoning. Experiments show that our framework produces interpretable and logically consistent text-based evaluations, aligning closely with human judgments while outperforming existing baselines. The code and demo are available at https://github.com/NKU-HLT/Eval_Reasoning.

Enzhi Wang, Qicheng Li, Zhiyuan Tang et al.

In this work, we present the first systematic evaluation of catastrophic forgetting and modality inequivalence in speech large language models, showing that introducing speech capabilities can degrade knowledge and reasoning even when inputs remain textual, and performance further decreases with spoken queries. To address these challenges, we propose a cross-modal knowledge distillation framework that leverages both text-to-text and speech-to-text channels to transfer knowledge from a text-based teacher model to a speech LLM. Extensive experiments on dialogue and audio understanding tasks validate the effectiveness of our approach in preserving textual knowledge, improving cross-modal alignment, and enhancing reasoning in speech-based interactions.