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Oct 21, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Qwen-Audio-Jev: 20x Faster Audio LLM Inference via Jev Decision Heads

Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-Jev integrates Jev decision heads into an audio LLM, enabling direct classification, binary judgment, and scoring without autoregressive decoding, delivering ~20x inference speedup across 18 benchmarks including speaker verification (6.5% EER) and audio quality assessment.