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Helen Meng

The Chinese University of Hog Kong

41 papers at tracked venues · 17 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

InterSpeech ×18ACL ×9EMNLP ×3AAAI ×2ICML ×2NAACL ×2NeurIPS ×2CHI ×1CIKM ×1SIGMOD ×1

Frequent coauthors

Xixin Wu
×25
Dongchao Yang
×10
Zhiyong Wu
×8
Xueyuan Chen
×5
Lingwei Meng
×5
Tianhua Zhang
×5
Hongyin Luo
×5
Jim Glass
×5
Yuanyuan Wang
×4
Haohan Guo
×4
Shujie Hu
×4
Kun Li
×4

Papers

  1. DualSpeechLM: Towards Unified Speech Understanding and Generation via Dual Speech Token Modeling with Large Language Models
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Yuanyuan Wang
    ,
    Dongchao Yang
    ,
    Yiwen Shao
    ,
    Hangting Chen
    ,
    Jiankun Zhao
    ,
    Zhiyong Wu
    , Helen Meng,
    Xixin Wu
  2. Masked Text-to-Audio Flow-Matching and Reward Feedback Optimization
    ACL 2026 ·
    Rongjie Huang
    ,
    Dongchao Yang
    ,
    Wenxiang Guo
    ,
    Huadai Liu
    ,
    Xize Cheng
    ,
    Zehan Wang
    ,
    Zhou Zhao
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    , Helen M. Meng
  3. UniSRM: A Unified Speech Reward Model for Reasoning-Based Fine-grained Assessment
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yuanyuan Wang
    ,
    Dongchao Yang
    ,
    Yayue Deng
    ,
    Zhiyong Wu
    ,
    Steven Y. Guo
    , Helen M. Meng,
    Xixin Wu
  4. ALMTokenizer: A Low-bitrate and Semantic-rich Audio Codec Tokenizer for Audio Language Modeling
    ICML 2025 ·
    Dongchao Yang
    ,
    Songxiang Liu
    ,
    Haohan Guo
    ,
    Jiankun Zhao
    ,
    Yuanyuan Wang
    ,
    Helin Wang
    ,
    Zeqian Ju
    ,
    Xubo Liu
    ,
    Xueyuan Chen
    ,
    Xu Tan
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    , Helen M. Meng
  5. Autoregressive Speech Synthesis without Vector Quantization
    ACL 2025 ·
    Lingwei Meng
    ,
    Long Zhou
    ,
    Shujie Liu
    ,
    Sanyuan Chen
    ,
    Bing Han
    ,
    Shujie Hu
    ,
    Yanqing Liu
    ,
    Jinyu Li
    ,
    Sheng Zhao
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    , Helen M. Meng,
    Furu Wei
  6. Can Large Language Models Be Query Optimizer for Relational Databases?
    SIGMOD 2025 ·
    Jie Tan
    ,
    Kangfei Zhao
    ,
    Rui Li
    ,
    Jeffrey Xu Yu
    ,
    Chengzhi Piao
    ,
    Hong Cheng
    , Helen Meng,
    Deli Zhao
    ,
    Yu Rong
  7. Decoding on Graphs: Faithful and Sound Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs through Generation of Well-Formed Chains
    ACL 2025 ·
    Kun Li
    ,
    Tianhua Zhang
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    ,
    Hongyin Luo
    ,
    James R. Glass
    , Helen M. Meng
  8. Defending Unauthorized Voice Cloning with Watermark-Aware Codecs
    InterSpeech 2025 ·
    Jiankun Zhao
    ,
    Lingwei Meng
    ,
    Chengxi Deng
    , Helen Meng,
    Xixin Wu
  9. DiffDSR: Dysarthric Speech Reconstruction Using Latent Diffusion Model
    InterSpeech 2025 ·
    Xueyuan Chen
    ,
    Dongchao Yang
    ,
    Wenxuan Wu
    ,
    Minglin Wu
    ,
    Jing Xu
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    ,
    Zhiyong Wu
    , Helen Meng
  10. Disentangling Speaker and Content in Pre-trained Speech Models with Latent Diffusion for Robust Speaker Verification
    InterSpeech 2025 ·
    Zhe Li
    ,
    Man-Wai Mak
    ,
    Jen-Tzung Chien
    ,
    Mert Pilanci
    ,
    Zezhong Jin
    , Helen Meng
  11. Generate, Discriminate, Evolve: Enhancing Context Faithfulness via Fine-Grained Sentence-Level Self-Evolution
    ACL 2025 ·
    Kun Li
    ,
    Tianhua Zhang
    ,
    Yunxiang Li
    ,
    Hongyin Luo
    ,
    Abdalla Mohamed Salama Sayed Moustafa
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    ,
    James R. Glass
    , Helen M. Meng
  12. Incorporating Linguistic Constraints from External Knowledge Source for Audio-Visual Target Speech Extraction
    InterSpeech 2025 ·
    Wenxuan Wu
    ,
    Shuai Wang
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    , Helen Meng,
    Haizhou Li
  13. On the Within-class Variation Issue in Alzheimer's Disease Detection
    InterSpeech 2025 ·
    Jiawen Kang
    ,
    Dongrui Han
    ,
    Lingwei Meng
    ,
    Jingyan Zhou
    ,
    Jinchao Li
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    , Helen Meng
  14. On-the-fly Routing for Zero-shot MoE Speaker Adaptation of Speech Foundation Models for Dysarthric Speech Recognition
    InterSpeech 2025 ·
    Shujie Hu
    ,
    Xurong Xie
    ,
    Mengzhe Geng
    ,
    Jiajun Deng
    ,
    Huimeng Wang
    ,
    Guinan Li
    ,
    Chengxi Deng
    ,
    Tianzi Wang
    ,
    Mingyu Cui
    , Helen Meng,
    Xunying Liu
  15. Optimizing Pause Context in Fine-Tuning Pre-trained Large Language Models for Dementia Detection
    InterSpeech 2025 ·
    Xiaoquan Ke
    ,
    Man-Wai Mak
    , Helen Meng
  16. RAG-Zeval: Enhancing RAG Responses Evaluator through End-to-End Reasoning and Ranking-Based Reinforcement Learning
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Kun Li
    ,
    Yunxiang Li
    ,
    Tianhua Zhang
    ,
    Hongyin Luo
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    ,
    James R. Glass
    , Helen M. Meng
  17. Self-Tuning: Instructing LLMs to Effectively Acquire New Knowledge through Self-Teaching
    ACL 2025 ·
    Xiaoying Zhang
    ,
    Baolin Peng
    ,
    Ye Tian
    ,
    Jingyan Zhou
    ,
    Yipeng Zhang
    ,
    Haitao Mi
    , Helen M. Meng
  18. SocialCC: Interactive Evaluation for Cultural Competence in Language Agents
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jincenzi Wu
    ,
    Jianxun Lian
    ,
    Dingdong Wang
    , Helen M. Meng
  19. Speech Discrete Tokens or Continuous Features? A Comparative Analysis for Spoken Language Understanding in SpeechLLMs
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Dingdong Wang
    ,
    Junan Li
    ,
    Mingyu Cui
    ,
    Dongchao Yang
    ,
    Xueyuan Chen
    , Helen M. Meng
  20. Adaptive Query Rewriting: Aligning Rewriters through Marginal Probability of Conversational Answers
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Tianhua Zhang
    ,
    Kun Li
    ,
    Hongyin Luo
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    ,
    James R. Glass
    , Helen Meng
  21. COKE: A Cognitive Knowledge Graph for Machine Theory of Mind
    ACL 2024 ·
    Jincenzi Wu
    ,
    Zhuang Chen
    ,
    Jiawen Deng
    ,
    Sahand Sabour
    , Helen Meng,
    Minlie Huang
  22. CoLM-DSR: Leveraging Neural Codec Language Modeling for Multi-Modal Dysarthric Speech Reconstruction
    InterSpeech 2024 ·
    Xueyuan Chen
    ,
    Dongchao Yang
    ,
    Dingdong Wang
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    ,
    Zhiyong Wu
    , Helen Meng
  23. Designing Scaffolding Strategies for Conversational Agents in Dialog Task of Neurocognitive Disorders Screening
    CHI 2024 ·
    Jiaxiong Hu
    ,
    Junze Li
    ,
    Yuhang Zeng
    ,
    Dongjie Yang
    ,
    Danxuan Liang
    , Helen Meng,
    Xiaojuan Ma
  24. Empowering Whisper as a Joint Multi-Talker and Target-Talker Speech Recognition System
    InterSpeech 2024 ·
    Lingwei Meng
    ,
    Jiawen Kang
    ,
    Yuejiao Wang
    ,
    Zengrui Jin
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    ,
    Xunying Liu
    , Helen Meng
  25. Joint Speaker Features Learning for Audio-visual Multichannel Speech Separation and Recognition
    InterSpeech 2024 ·
    Guinan Li
    ,
    Jiajun Deng
    ,
    Youjun Chen
    ,
    Mengzhe Geng
    ,
    Shujie Hu
    ,
    Zhe Li
    ,
    Zengrui Jin
    ,
    Tianzi Wang
    ,
    Xurong Xie
    , Helen Meng,
    Xunying Liu
  26. Large Language Model-based FMRI Encoding of Language Functions for Subjects with Neurocognitive Disorder
    InterSpeech 2024 ·
    Yuejiao Wang
    ,
    Xianmin Gong
    ,
    Lingwei Meng
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    , Helen Meng
  27. LoRA-MER: Low-Rank Adaptation of Pre-Trained Speech Models for Multimodal Emotion Recognition Using Mutual Information
    InterSpeech 2024 ·
    Yunrui Cai
    ,
    Zhiyong Wu
    ,
    Jia Jia
    , Helen Meng
  28. Natural Language Embedded Programs for Hybrid Language Symbolic Reasoning
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Tianhua Zhang
    ,
    Jiaxin Ge
    ,
    Hongyin Luo
    ,
    Yung-Sung Chuang
    ,
    Mingye Gao
    ,
    Yuan Gong
    ,
    Yoon Kim
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    , Helen Meng,
    Jim Glass
  29. Natural Language-Assisted Multi-modal Medication Recommendation
    CIKM 2024 ·
    Jie Tan
    ,
    Yu Rong
    ,
    Kangfei Zhao
    ,
    Tian Bian
    ,
    Tingyang Xu
    ,
    Junzhou Huang
    ,
    Hong Cheng
    , Helen Meng
  30. Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning of Speaker-Aware Dynamic Prompts for Speaker Verification
    InterSpeech 2024 ·
    Zhe Li
    ,
    Man-Wai Mak
    ,
    Hung-yi Lee
    , Helen Meng
  31. Prompting Large Language Models with Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis Abilities
    InterSpeech 2024 ·
    Minglin Wu
    ,
    Jing Xu
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    , Helen Meng
  32. Rethinking Machine Ethics - Can LLMs Perform Moral Reasoning through the Lens of Moral Theories?
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Jingyan Zhou
    ,
    Minda Hu
    ,
    Junan Li
    ,
    Xiaoying Zhang
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    ,
    Irwin King
    , Helen Meng
  33. Seamless Language Expansion: Enhancing Multilingual Mastery in Self-Supervised Models
    InterSpeech 2024 ·
    Jing Xu
    ,
    Minglin Wu
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    , Helen Meng
  34. Self-Alignment for Factuality: Mitigating Hallucinations in LLMs via Self-Evaluation
    ACL 2024 ·
    Xiaoying Zhang
    ,
    Baolin Peng
    ,
    Ye Tian
    ,
    Jingyan Zhou
    ,
    Lifeng Jin
    ,
    Linfeng Song
    ,
    Haitao Mi
    , Helen Meng
  35. SimCalib: Graph Neural Network Calibration Based on Similarity between Nodes
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Boshi Tang
    ,
    Zhiyong Wu
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    ,
    Qiaochu Huang
    ,
    Jun Chen
    ,
    Shun Lei
    , Helen Meng
  36. SimpleSpeech: Towards Simple and Efficient Text-to-Speech with Scalar Latent Transformer Diffusion Models
    InterSpeech 2024 ·
    Dongchao Yang
    ,
    Dingdong Wang
    ,
    Haohan Guo
    ,
    Xueyuan Chen
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    , Helen Meng
  37. SongCreator: Lyrics-based Universal Song Generation
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Shun Lei
    ,
    Yixuan Zhou
    ,
    Boshi Tang
    ,
    Max W. Y. Lam
    ,
    Feng Liu
    ,
    Hangyu Liu
    ,
    Jingcheng Wu
    ,
    Shiyin Kang
    ,
    Zhiyong Wu
    , Helen Meng
  38. Spontaneous Style Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Controllable Spontaneous Behaviors Based on Language Models
    InterSpeech 2024 ·
    Weiqin Li
    ,
    Peiji Yang
    ,
    Yicheng Zhong
    ,
    Yixuan Zhou
    ,
    Zhisheng Wang
    ,
    Zhiyong Wu
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    , Helen Meng
  39. Towards Effective and Efficient Non-autoregressive Decoding Using Block-based Attention Mask
    InterSpeech 2024 ·
    Tianzi Wang
    ,
    Xurong Xie
    ,
    Zhaoqing Li
    ,
    Shoukang Hu
    ,
    Zengrui Jin
    ,
    Jiajun Deng
    ,
    Mingyu Cui
    ,
    Shujie Hu
    ,
    Mengzhe Geng
    ,
    Guinan Li
    , Helen Meng,
    Xunying Liu
  40. UniAudio 1.5: Large Language Model-Driven Audio Codec is A Few-Shot Audio Task Learner
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Dongchao Yang
    ,
    Haohan Guo
    ,
    Yuanyuan Wang
    ,
    Rongjie Huang
    ,
    Xiang Li
    ,
    Xu Tan
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    , Helen Meng
  41. UniAudio: Towards Universal Audio Generation with Large Language Models
    ICML 2024 ·
    Dongchao Yang
    ,
    Jinchuan Tian
    ,
    Xu Tan
    ,
    Rongjie Huang
    ,
    Songxiang Liu
    ,
    Haohan Guo
    ,
    Xuankai Chang
    ,
    Jiatong Shi
    ,
    Sheng Zhao
    ,
    Jiang Bian
    ,
    Zhou Zhao
    ,
    Xixin Wu
    , Helen M. Meng