Ke-Han Lu

@article{lu2026compress,
  title={Compress the Cache, Not the Speech Embedding: KV Compression for Efficient Speech LLMs},
  author={Lu, Ke-Han and Deng, Keqi and Fan, Ruchao and Zhao, Rui and Li, Jinyu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.06827},
  year={2026}
}

@article{lu2026how,
  title={How Auditory Knowledge in LLM Backbones Shapes Audio Language Models: A Holistic Evaluation},
  author={Lu, Ke-Han and Fu, Szu-Wei and Yang, Chao-Han Huck and Chen, Zhehuai and Huang, Sung-Feng and Yang, Chih-Kai and Lin, Yi-Cheng and Hsiao, Chi-Yuan and Ren, Wenze and Hu, En-Pei and Huang, Yu-Han and Cheng, An-Yu and Chiang, Cheng-Han and Tsao, Yu and Wang, Yu-Chiang Frank and Lee, Hung-yi},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.19195},
  year={2026}
}

@ARTICLE{lu2026desta25audio,
author={Lu, Ke-Han and Chen, Zhehuai and Fu, Szu-Wei and Yang, Chao-Han Huck and Huang, Sung-Feng and Yang, Chih-Kai and Yu, Chee-En and Chen, Chun-Wei and Chen, Wei-Chih and Huang, Chien-yu and Lin, Yi-Cheng and Lin, Yu-Xiang and Fu, Chi-An and Kuan, Chun-Yi and Ren, Wenze and Chen, Xuanjun and Huang, Wei-Ping and Hu, En-Pei and Lin, Tzu-Quan and Wu, Yuan-Kuei and Huang, Kuan-Po and Huang, Hsiao-Ying and Chou, Huang-Cheng and Chang, Kai-Wei and Chiang, Cheng-Han and Ginsburg, Boris and Wang, Yu-Chiang Frank and Lee, Hung-yi},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing}, 
title={DeSTA2.5-Audio: Toward General-Purpose Large Audio Language Model with Self-Generated Cross-Modal Alignment}, 
year={2026},
volume={},
number={},
pages={1-16},
keywords={Training;Adaptation models;Metadata;Training data;Speech processing;Music;Keyboards;Buildings;Pipelines;Benchmark testing;Cross-modal alignment;dataset construction;instruction-tuning;large audio language model},
doi={10.1109/TASLPRO.2026.3675792}}

@inproceedings{lu2025speechifeval,
  title={{Speech-IFEval}: Evaluating instruction-following and quantifying catastrophic forgetting in speech-aware language models},
  author={Lu, Ke-Han and Kuan, Chun-Yi and Lee, Hung-yi},
  booktitle={Interspeech 2025},
  year={2025}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Lu2025Developing,
  author={Lu, Ke-Han and Chen, Zhehuai and Fu, Szu-Wei and Yang, Chao-Han Huck and Balam, Jagadeesh and Ginsburg, Boris and Wang, Yu-Chiang Frank and Lee, Hung-Yi},
  booktitle={ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, 
  title={Developing Instruction-Following Speech Language Model Without Speech Instruction-Tuning Data}, 
  year={2025},
  pages={1-5},
  doi={10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10889444}
}

@inproceedings{lu24c_interspeech,
  title     = {DeSTA: Enhancing Speech Language Models through Descriptive Speech-Text Alignment},
  author    = {Ke-Han Lu and Zhehuai Chen and Szu-Wei Fu and He Huang and Boris Ginsburg and Yu-Chiang Frank Wang and Hung-yi Lee},
  year      = {2024},
  booktitle = {Interspeech 2024},
  pages     = {4159--4163},
  doi       = {10.21437/Interspeech.2024-457}
}

@inproceedings{huang2024dynamic,
  title={Dynamic-superb: Towards a dynamic, collaborative, and comprehensive instruction-tuning benchmark for speech},
  author={Huang, Chien-yu and Lu, Ke-Han and Wang, Shih-Heng and Hsiao, Chi-Yuan and Kuan, Chun-Yi and Wu, Haibin and Arora, Siddhant and Chang, Kai-Wei and Shi, Jiatong and Peng, Yifan and others},
  booktitle={ICASSP 2024-2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  pages={12136--12140},
  year={2024},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{lu2023context,
  title={A context-aware knowledge transferring strategy for CTC-based ASR},
  author={Lu, Ke-Han and Chen, Kuan-Yu},
  booktitle={2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)},
  pages={60--67},
  year={2023},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@article{yu2022non,
  title={Non-autoregressive asr modeling using pre-trained language models for chinese speech recognition},
  author={Yu, Fu-Hao and Chen, Kuan-Yu and Lu, Ke-Han},
  journal={IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing},
  volume={30},
  pages={1474--1482},
  year={2022},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

@article{lu2021transformer,
  title={A transformer-based cross-modal fusion model with adversarial training for VQA challenge 2021},
  author={Lu, Ke-Han and Fang, Bo-Han and Chen, Kuan-Yu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.13033},
  year={2021}
}