Zheqi Yuan | Searcharxiv

arXiv2026

Multiplexing Neural Audio Watermarks

Audio watermarking is essential for verifying speech authenticity, yet single-watermark schemes often struggle against sophisticated distortions such as neural reconstruction and adversarial attacks. To address this limitation, we introduce a multiplexing paradigm that combines multiple watermarking techniques to leverage their inherent complementarities. We explore both parallel and sequential multiplexing strategies and propose perceptual-adaptive time-frequency multiplexing (PA-TFM), a robust training-free approach. To further enhance performance, we introduce MaskNet, a novel model-based framework designed to learn effective time-domain multiplexing. Experimental results on the LibriSpeech and Common Voice datasets under 14 diverse attack types, including high-strength white-box and neural reconstruction attacks, demonstrate that both PA-TFM and MaskNet considerably outperform existing single-watermark baselines, establishing a resilient paradigm for real-world audio protection.

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arXiv2026

SciTS: Scientific Time Series Understanding and Generation with LLMs

The scientific reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) has recently attracted significant attention. Time series, as a fundamental modality in scientific data, presents unique challenges that are often overlooked in current multimodal LLMs, which either encode numerical sequences as text or convert them into images. Such approaches may be insufficient for comprehensive scientific time series understanding and generation. Existing unified time series models typically specialise in either forecasting or analysis, and their effectiveness on non-periodic, heterogeneous scientific signals remains unclear. To address these gaps, we introduce SciTS, a benchmark spanning 12 scientific domains and 43 tasks, with over 50k+ instances, both univariate and multivariate signals ranging from $10^0$ to $10^7$ in length and up to 10~MHz in frequency. We benchmark 17 models, including text-only LLMs, multimodal LLMs, and unified time series models, and find that general-purpose LLMs exhibit stronger generalisability than specialised time series models, while representing time series as text or images limits their performance due to excessively long sequences and loss of numerical precision, respectively. We then introduce TimeOmni, a framework that equips LLMs with the ability to understand and generate time series while remaining compatible with general-purpose LLM training. This work fills a gap in both dedicated benchmarks and modelling frameworks for scientific time series, paving the way for LLMs to understand and generate complex temporal scientific data.

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