Zhikang Niu
9 papers · 2025–2026 · 4 venues · across top CS/AI venues
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🌍 Conference Polyglot · Bronze 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge · Silver 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (19) ⭐ Rising Star (9) 👥 Mega-Team · Squad
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Venues
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Research topics
Speech & Audio
(8)
Artificial Intelligence
(7)
Deep Learning
(7)
Core AI
(7)
Synthesis
(6)
Models
(5)
Learning Types
(4)
Machine Learning
(2)
Natural Language Processing
(2)
Analysis
(2)
Generation
(2)
Optimization & Theory · Machine Learning
(2)
Optimization & Theory · Deep Learning
(1)
Processing
(1)
Keywords
flow matching
(4)
speech synthesis
(3)
inference acceleration
(3)
semantic representation
(2)
multimodal learning
(1)
modality alignment
(1)
diffusion model
(1)
end-to-end training
(1)
voice interaction
(1)
zero-shot capability
(1)
training acceleration
(1)
ode solver
(1)
sampling trajectory
(1)
diffusion transformer
(1)
text-to-speech synthesis
(1)
spoken dialogue system
(1)
spoken dialogue
(1)
semantic token
(1)
speech language model
(1)
speech generation
(1)
Papers
Evaluating the Expressive Appropriateness of Speech in Rich Contexts
ACL 2026
MeanAudio: Fast and Faithful Text-to-Audio Generation with Mean Flows
ACL 2026
SAC: Neural Speech Codec with Semantic-Acoustic Dual-Stream Quantization
ACL 2026
WaveEx: Accelerating Flow Matching-based Speech Generation via Wavelet-guided Extrapolation
AAAI 2026
Accelerating Diffusion-based Text-to-Speech Model Trainingwith Dual Modality Alignment
Interspeech 2025
Accelerating Flow-Matching-Based Text-to-Speech via Empirically Pruned Step Sampling
Interspeech 2025
F5-TTS: A Fairytaler that Fakes Fluent and Faithful Speech with Flow Matching
ACL 2025
SLAM-Omni: Timbre-Controllable Voice Interaction System with Single-Stage Training
ACL 2025
URO-Bench: Towards Comprehensive Evaluation for End-to-End Spoken Dialogue Models
EMNLP 2025