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arxiv: 2606.02739 · v1 · pith:EZ3TC3HHnew · submitted 2026-06-01 · 💻 cs.SD · cs.AI· eess.AS

EntangleCodec: A Unified Discrete Audio Tokenizer via Semantic-Acoustic Entanglement

Hui Li , Yangfan Gao , Junlin Shang , Changhao Jiang , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang This is my paper

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keywords audio tokenizerdiscrete tokenssemantic-acoustic entanglementaudio language modelscaption alignmentunified token streamflow-matching decoder
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EntangleCodec creates one discrete audio token stream by aligning sound with rich captions, letting 0.6B models beat much larger continuous ones on understanding tasks.

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The paper introduces EntangleCodec to solve the split between reconstruction-focused codecs that miss semantics and semantic tokenizers that need separate streams. It aligns audio directly with detailed captions before quantization so that one compact token sequence carries linguistic content, speaker identity, emotion, prosody, and scene information together. A flow-matching decoder then reconstructs the original audio at high quality across speech, music, and general sounds. Audio language models built on these tokens show clear scaling benefits, with the smallest version already surpassing much larger continuous-representation systems.

Core claim

EntangleCodec learns caption-aligned semantic-acoustic representations before quantization to produce a unified discrete token stream that preserves both acoustic fidelity and rich semantic information including linguistic content, speaker identity, emotion, prosody, and acoustic scenes. This single stream supports reconstruction competitive with specialized codecs, improves audio understanding by up to 7.4 percent on MMAR over codec baselines, and enables both TTS and TTA generation. Models using the tokens exhibit strong scaling: a 0.6B parameter ALM surpasses specialized continuous-representation LLMs with over 13B parameters across three benchmarks using 22 times fewer parameters, and sc

What carries the argument

Caption-aligned semantic-acoustic entanglement before quantization, which packs linguistic, speaker, emotion, prosody, and scene information into one compact token stream while a flow-matching diffusion decoder handles reconstruction.

If this is right

  • Reconstruction quality remains competitive with specialized codecs across speech, music, and general audio.
  • Audio understanding improves by up to 7.4 percent on MMAR relative to other codec-based baselines.
  • A 0.6B parameter audio language model using the tokens surpasses 13B parameter continuous-representation LLMs on three benchmarks.
  • Scaling the same architecture to 8B parameters produces new state-of-the-art results on MMAR.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Representation quality can reduce the parameter count needed for strong audio modeling performance.
  • A single entangled stream may simplify audio language model design by removing the need for parallel semantic and acoustic paths.
  • Caption-based alignment could be tested on other modalities where detailed natural-language descriptions are available.
  • Further scaling experiments would show whether the observed efficiency gains persist at even larger model sizes.

Load-bearing premise

Aligning audio with rich captions rather than ASR transcripts will produce a single token stream that preserves both acoustic fidelity and semantic details without misalignment or information loss.

What would settle it

A head-to-head test in which separate semantic-plus-acoustic token streams achieve higher combined reconstruction-plus-understanding scores than the single entangled stream on the same benchmarks.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.02739 by Changhao Jiang, Hui Li, Junlin Shang, Qi Zhang, Tao Gui, Xuanjing Huang, Yangfan Gao.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Comprehensive tokenizer comparison across [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of EntangleCodec. Compared with single-encoder acoustic codecs and dual-encoder semantic￾acoustic codecs, EntangleCodec learns caption-aligned unified tokens that support both reconstruction and down￾stream audio-language tasks. The right panel shows the two-stage training strategy: joint codec learning with rich captions, followed by decoder refinement. sive audio generation. EntangleCodec instea… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Parameter efficiency across audio understanding benchmarks. EntangleCodec scales consistently from [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Example of a rich speech caption generated by our captioning pipeline. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Example of a rich music caption generated by our captioning pipeline. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Example of a rich sound caption generated by our captioning pipeline. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: MMAR Example 1 — Speech: Behavior Recognition. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: MMAR Example 2 — Music: Humor Reduction. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: MMAR Example — Sound: Fine-grained Audio Discrimination. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: UMAP visualization of EntangleCodec representations. Left: audio and caption embeddings are projected [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_10.png] view at source ↗
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Audio tokenizers serve as the discrete interface between continuous audio and Audio Language Models (ALMs), but existing tokenizers often struggle to support both understanding and generation. Reconstruction-oriented codecs preserve acoustic fidelity but lack rich semantics, while semantic-aware tokenizers typically rely on separate semantic and acoustic streams, introducing redundancy or misalignment. We propose \textbf{EntangleCodec}, a unified discrete audio tokenizer that learns caption-aligned semantic-acoustic representations before quantization. By aligning audio with rich captions rather than ASR transcripts, EntangleCodec captures linguistic content, speaker identity, emotion, prosody, and acoustic scenes within a compact token stream. A flow-matching diffusion decoder further enables high-quality reconstruction across speech, music, and general audio. EntangleCodec achieves reconstruction quality competitive with specialized codecs, outperforms all codec-based baselines on audio understanding by up to \textbf{+7.4\%} on MMAR, and supports both TTS and TTA generation in a unified framework. Furthermore, EntangleCodec-based audio language models demonstrate strong scaling behavior: even at \textit{0.6B} parameters, the model surpasses specialized continuous-representation LLMs with over \textit{13B} parameters across three benchmarks using \textbf{22$\times$} fewer parameters; scaling to \textit{8B} further establishes new state-of-the-art results on MMAR, highlighting that representation quality is as critical as model scale in audio language modeling. Code and model weights are available at https://github.com/luckyerr/EntangleCodec.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes EntangleCodec, a unified discrete audio tokenizer that learns caption-aligned semantic-acoustic representations before quantization to produce a single token stream capturing linguistic content, speaker identity, emotion, prosody, and acoustic scenes. A flow-matching diffusion decoder enables reconstruction across speech, music, and general audio. The tokenizer supports audio understanding and generation; EntangleCodec-based ALMs at 0.6B parameters outperform specialized continuous-representation LLMs exceeding 13B parameters on three benchmarks (22× fewer parameters), with scaling to 8B establishing new SOTA on MMAR.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold, the work would be significant for demonstrating that caption-aligned entanglement can yield compact discrete representations supporting both high-fidelity reconstruction and efficient scaling in audio language modeling, with the public release of code and model weights at https://github.com/luckyerr/EntangleCodec providing a concrete reproducibility asset.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract and experimental claims: the reported +7.4% MMAR gain, 22× parameter reduction, and outperformance of >13B continuous LLMs by a 0.6B discrete model are presented without any description of baselines, dataset splits, error bars, statistical tests, or ablation studies, rendering the central performance claims unevaluable.
  2. [Method] Method description of caption alignment: the claim that aligning audio with rich captions (rather than ASR transcripts) simultaneously encodes linguistic/speaker/emotion/prosody/scene content in one stream without measurable misalignment or acoustic loss lacks any quantitative verification, control experiments, or analysis of token-stream properties.
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  1. The abstract states competitive reconstruction quality and unified TTS/TTA support but provides no quantitative metrics or comparison tables in the visible text.

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We thank the referee for the detailed comments. We address each major point below with clarifications from the manuscript and indicate planned revisions.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract and experimental claims: the reported +7.4% MMAR gain, 22× parameter reduction, and outperformance of >13B continuous LLMs by a 0.6B discrete model are presented without any description of baselines, dataset splits, error bars, statistical tests, or ablation studies, rendering the central performance claims unevaluable.

    Authors: The abstract summarizes key findings concisely per standard practice. Full details on baselines, dataset splits, error bars, statistical tests, and ablation studies appear in Sections 4 (Experimental Setup), 5 (Results on reconstruction and understanding), and 6 (Ablations and scaling). Tables report means with standard deviations and note significance testing. To make claims more self-contained, we will revise the abstract to reference the evaluation protocol and point to these sections. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method] Method description of caption alignment: the claim that aligning audio with rich captions (rather than ASR transcripts) simultaneously encodes linguistic/speaker/emotion/prosody/scene content in one stream without measurable misalignment or acoustic loss lacks any quantitative verification, control experiments, or analysis of token-stream properties.

    Authors: The method section explains the caption-alignment objective and its motivation over ASR transcripts. Effectiveness is shown via competitive reconstruction metrics across domains and +7.4% gains on MMAR understanding, which require preservation of the listed attributes. We agree that dedicated quantitative controls (caption vs. ASR ablation) and token-property analysis (e.g., mutual information or clustering metrics) would strengthen the presentation. These will be added in the revision. revision: yes

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The provided abstract and method summary describe a new tokenizer that aligns audio to captions before quantization and uses a flow-matching decoder. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, self-citations, or uniqueness theorems are present that would reduce any claimed result to its own inputs by construction. Performance numbers (+7.4% MMAR, scaling claims) are presented as empirical outcomes rather than tautological re-statements of training choices. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

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