CARD: Cross-component Audio Representation Distillation for Encoder-Free Audio Captioning
Modern automated audio captioning systems pair a frozen audio encoder with a large language model (LLM) via a trainable projector, incurring the encoder's inference cost and bottlenecking the model through its fixed acoustic features. We present CARD, an encoder-free audio captioning model that removes the encoder at i...
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