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DiSTAR: Diffusion over a Scalable Token Autoregressive Representation for Speech Generation Open

Song Yao, Xiaobin Zhuang, Jiawei Chen, Zhikang Niu, Guanrou Yang , et al. · 2025

Recent attempts to interleave autoregressive (AR) sketchers with diffusion-based refiners over continuous speech representations have shown promise, but they remain brittle under distribution shift and offer limited levers for controllabil…

Examination Culture and Music Education Practices: A Review of Children's Instrument Learning Open

Song Yao · 2025

This review examines the impact of examination-oriented music education on children's instrument learning, with a focus on motivation, expressive skills, empathy, and creativity. Case analyses illustrate how intrinsic interest, supportive …

The Shenzhen Exception: Selective Empowerment and Institutional Innovation in China's Sub-Provincial Governance Under Xi Jinping Open

Song Yao, Xiao Tan · 2025

This article examines how and why the Chinese central government has intensified its engagement with Shenzhen under Xi Jinping. It highlights new institutional mechanisms – comprehensive authorisation packages, inter-ministerial conference…

MagiCodec: Simple Masked Gaussian-Injected Codec for High-Fidelity Reconstruction and Generation Open

Song Yao, Jiawei Chen, Xiaoying Zhuang, Chenpeng Du, Ziyang Ma , et al. · 2025

Neural audio codecs have made significant strides in efficiently mapping raw audio waveforms into discrete token representations, which are foundational for contemporary audio generative models. However, most existing codecs are optimized …

Towards Reliable Large Audio Language Model Open

Ziyang Ma, Xiquan Li, Song Yao, Wenxi Chen, Chenpeng Du , et al. · 2025

Recent advancements in large audio language models (LALMs) have demonstrated impressive results and promising prospects in universal understanding and reasoning across speech, music, and general sound. However, these models still lack the …

Language Model Can Listen While Speaking Open

Ziyang Ma, Song Yao, Chenpeng Du, Jian Cong, Zhuo Chen , et al. · 2025

Dialogue serves as the most natural manner of human-computer interaction (HCI). Recent advancements in speech language models (SLM), have significantly enhanced speech-based conversational AI. However, these models are limited to turn-base…

Language Model Can Listen While Speaking Open

Ziyang Ma, Song Yao, Chenpeng Du, Jian Cong, Zhuo Chen , et al. · 2024

Dialogue serves as the most natural manner of human-computer interaction (HCI). Recent advancements in speech language models (SLM) have significantly enhanced speech-based conversational AI. However, these models are limited to turn-based…

The Design and Targeting of Compliance Promotions Open

Øystein Daljord, Carl F. Mela, Jason M.T. Roos, Jim Sprigg, Song Yao · 2023

This paper addresses how and when to extrapolate experimental results for normative policy analysis, particularly in the context of compliance promotions in which consumers can self-select into treatment.

Using Field Experiments to Infer Cross-Side Network Effects in the Ride-Sharing Market: How Does Driver Supply Impact Rider Orders, Cancellations, and Customer Lifetime Value? Open

Chong Wang, Qiyuan Wang, Tat Chan, Song Yao · 2023

The Role of the Classical Chinese Language in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language Open

Song Yao · 2023

The practical task of a Chinese language teacher is to teach students to communicate on everyday and social topics, to read youth magazines and political publications (naturally, with the help of a dictionary), to teach the ethics of compu…

Search Frictions, Sorting, and Matching in Two-Sided Markets Open

Hyesung Yoo, Song Yao, Ravi Bapna, Jui Ramaprasad · 2023

Spillover Effects of Online Reviews: Evidence from the Hotel Industry Open

Hülya Karaman, Cheolho Song, Tat Y. Chan, Song Yao · 2023

“Ten virtues of incense” in Buddhist Tradition of China and Japan Open

Elena E. Voytishek, A.V. Zinchenko, Song Yao · 2023

This article is based on the text known as “Ten Virtues of Incense” (香十德 Xiang shí de) written during the Song dynasty (960–1279). In this text, the fundamental functions of incense, manifesting in everyday life and Buddhist ceremonies, ar…

Becoming a normative power? China's Mekong agenda in the era of Xi Jinping Open

Song Yao, Guangyu Qiao-Franco, Tianyang Liu · 2021

Maintaining robust diplomatic relationships with neighbouring countries in the Mekong region has become strategically critical to China. Since President Xi Jinping took office, China has been renovating normative power in the Mekong region…

Resilience, vulnerability and adaptability: A qualitative study of COVID-19 lockdown experiences in two Henan villages, China Open

Xiao Tan, Song Yao, Tianyang Liu · 2021

Background The Chinese government’s early handling of COVID-19 has been perceived as aggressive and oppressive. Many of the most radical measures were adopted in Henan province, immediately north of Hubei, the pandemic’s epicentre in China…

Analysis of Photographic Image from the Perspective of Chinese Traditional Aesthetics Open

Song Yao, Yansong Zhang · 2021

In recent years, traditional Chinese culture has received wide attentions from the public and has become a symbol with Chinese characteristics.And Chinese cultural elements have been widely used in photography creation.When the photographe…

The Image of the Russians in Chinese and Japanese Linguistic Cultures (On the Base of Zoomorphic Metaphor) Open

Natalia V. Kutafeva, Song Yao · 2021

In this article, authors analyze zoomorphic metaphor that the Chinese and the Japanese used when they characterize the Russians. On the first stage of study we did associative experiment with questionnaire. 100 of Chinese students and 100 …

The Linguistic And Instructive Heritage Of Theophan The Recluse As A Phenomenon In Church Slavonic Literature Open

Song Yao · 2021

The Design and Targeting of Compliance Promotions Open

Øystein Daljord, Carl F. Mela, Jason M.T. Roos, Jim Sprigg, Song Yao · 2021

Forecasting the spread of COVID-19 under different reopening strategies Open

Meng Liu, Raphael Thomadsen, Song Yao · 2020

The Impact of Soda Taxes: Pass-Through, Tax Avoidance, and Nutritional Effects Open

Stephan Seiler, Anna Tuchman, Song Yao · 2020

The authors analyze the impact of a tax on sweetened beverages using a unique data set of prices, quantities sold, and nutritional information across several thousand taxed and untaxed beverages for a large set of stores in Philadelphia an…

Forecasting the Spread of COVID-19 under Different Reopening Strategies Open

Meng Liu, Raphael Thomadsen, Song Yao · 2020

We combine COVID-19 case data with mobility data to estimate a modified susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model in the United States. In contrast to a standard SIR model, we find that the incidence of COVID-19 spread is concave in the n…

Fortune Telling Rituals Using Incense in Modern Chinese Religious Practices Open

Elena E. Voytishek, Song Yao, Alexandra V. Gorshkova · 2020

Based on Chinese written sources and the authors' research field materials, the paper analyzes features of Taoist Buddhist practices using incense, as well as the purport of the 24 combinations that arise during fortune telling using three…

The Impact of Social Distancing and Masking on COVID-19 Spread and Consumer Spending Open

Nan Zhao, Song Yao, Raphael Thomadsen, C. Wang · 2020

Chinese Paradiplomacy: A Theoretical Review Open

Tianyang Liu, Song Yao · 2020

This article presents a review of the theoretical and empirical studies of paradiplomacy produced to date, focusing on the literature on subnational diplomacy in China, specifically. It argues that the analytical frameworks of previous par…

Forecasting the Spread of COVID-19 under Different Reopening Strategies Open

Meng Liu, Raphael Thomadsen, Song Yao · 2020

Brief Study on Countermeasures in Chinese-English Translation of Public Signs: from an Aesthetical Perspective Open

Song Yao · 2019

Public signs are a critical part of social terms, with the increasingly-deepening Reform and Opening Up and frequent bilateral exchanges between China and foreign countries, China plays a very important role in the international societies,…

Using Machine Learning to Address Customer Privacy Concerns: An Application with Click-stream Data Open

H R Yoo, Song Yao, Luping Sun, Xiaomeng Du · 2019

An Efficiency Paradox of Uberization Open

Kenan Zhang, Hongyu Chen, Song Yao, Linli Xu, Jiaoju Ge , et al. · 2019

The Impact of Soda Taxes: Pass-through, Tax Avoidance, and Nutritional Effects Open

Stephan Seiler, Anna Tuchman, Song Yao · 2018

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