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Yiwen Shao

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#artificial intelligence Jun 2026

Spatial-Omni: Spatial Audio Understanding Integration in Multimodal LLMs via FOA Encoding

Spatial-Omni is a lightweight method that implements SO-Encoder to inject First-Order Ambisonics (FOA) spatial audio into existing Omni LLMs as an independent modality, without modifying their original audio encoders.

Zhiyuan Zhu, Yixuan Chen, Yiwen Shao et al. · arXiv.org · 11 citations

Preprint Jul 2026

Alignment Is All You Need: Instruction-Free Training for General Audio-Language Models

The results suggest that competitive MLLM can emerge from alignment alone, reducing multimodal extension to a lightweight projector-training problem that generalizes across modalities and adapts rapidly to each new LLM release.

Xuanru Zhou, Yiwen Shao, Jiahong Li et al. · 1 citation