Routing early CLAP stages to the audio projector and later stages to the LLM yields encoder-free captioning that beats LLM-only distillation by +12.2 CIDEr-D on AudioCaps.
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CARD: Cross-component Audio Representation Distillation for Encoder-Free Audio Captioning
Routing early CLAP stages to the audio projector and later stages to the LLM yields encoder-free captioning that beats LLM-only distillation by +12.2 CIDEr-D on AudioCaps.