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  1. EvoAudio: Recursive Self-Improvement for Audio Understanding

    Sep 23, 2026Yuxiang Wang, Shengbo Cai, Yingda Shen +6Synthetic Data GenerationAudio Understanding

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Tencent Hunyuan · Tsinghua University +1

  2. Listen, Critique, and Refine: RL-Based Self-Refinement for Instruction-Following Speech Synthesis

    Sep 21, 2026Chee-En Yu, Yi-Cheng Lin, Sung-Feng Huang +4TTS SynthesisAudio Reasoning

    Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan · Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan · NVIDIA Research 4 Artificial Intelligence Center of Research Excellence, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

  3. Listen Then Reason: Perception-Grounded Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for Large Audio-Language Models

    Sep 20, 2026Jiaheng Dong, Xiaofeng Yu, Jean Honorio +3Audio ReasoningAudio-Language Models

    The University of Melbourne, Australia · University of Auckland, New Zealand · ARC OPTIMA, Australia +1

  4. MuLA-Bench: A Multilingual Long-Form Audio Understanding Benchmark via Multi-Tier Auditing

    Sep 20, 2026Zeyu Yang, Xinyu Zhang, Zibo Bi +5Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Understanding

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Alibaba Token Hub, Alibaba Group · Xi’an Jiaotong University

  5. Discrete vs. Continuous: A Comprehensive Study of Unified Audio Understanding in LALMs

    Sep 19, 2026Jing Peng, Zichao Nie, Zhisheng Zhang +2Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Representation Learning

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China

  6. FRAUDSkill: Structured Frozen-Weight Skill Optimization for Audio Anti-Fraud Detection

    Sep 16, 2026Chengxian Hu, Zhiming Ma, Mingjun Pan +9Financial Fraud DetectionAudio-Language Models

    People’s Public Security University of China · JD Technology · Peking University, Shenzhen +3

  7. Correlation-Guided Encoder Selection for Multi-Encoder Large Audio-Language Models

    Sep 16, 2026Pei-Jun Liao, Hung-Shin Lee, Wenze Ren +3Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio-Language Models

    Inst. of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan · Grad. Inst. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan · Grad. Inst. of AI Interdisciplinary Applied Technology, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan +3

  8. Augmenting Large Audio-Language Models with Frame-Level Grounding for Fine-Grained Temporal Perception

    Sep 14, 2026Yanfeng Shi, Yan Song, Junhui Li +4Audio UnderstandingAudio-Language Models

    National Engineering Research Center of Speech and Language Information Processing, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China · ICT Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore

  9. ER-EDF: A Psychology-Grounded Emotion Regulation Framework for Speech Empathetic Dialogue Generation in Large Audio-Language Models

    Sep 14, 2026Hongyu Jin, Wenda Zhang, Runqiu Fei +3Spoken Dialogue SystemsAudio-Language Models

  10. What Did the MLLM Hear? Token-Level Spectro-Temporal Grounding for Audio MLLM Explainability

    Sep 14, 2026Lucia Cascone, Valeria Fraenza, Michele Nappi +2Multimodal GroundingAudio-Language Models

    Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno, Italy

  11. Unifying Score and Performance for Fine-Grained Music Understanding in Audio-Language Models

    Sep 9, 2026Milan Liessens Dujardin, Song-Ze Yu, Kevin MiaoAudio UnderstandingAudio-Language Models

  12. Beyond Accuracy: ARIA-Rubrics for Evaluating Audio Reasoning in Large Audio Language Models

    Sep 9, 2026Yupei Li, Qiyang Sun, Mohamed Mady +4Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Reasoning

    Imperial College London, UK · Technische Universität München München, Germany · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence Abu Dhabi, AE +2

  13. TAD: Token-Adaptive Contrastive Decoding with Confidence-Guided Gating for Hallucination Mitigation in Large Audio-Language Models

    Sep 7, 2026Heyu Chang, Nianwen Si, Hao Zhang +2Audio QAAudio-Language Model Hallucination Detection

    Information Engineering University, China

  14. SonicCaps: Large-Scale Diverse and Fine-Grained Captioning for Improved Audio-Retrieval

    Sep 2, 2026Zineb Lahrichi, Marc Ferras, Gaël Richard +1Audio CaptioningAudio-Language Models

    Sony CTC, France · LTCI, Telecom Paris, Institut polytechnique de Paris, France

  15. Heard but Not Heeded: Paralinguistic Information Encoding and Loss in Audio-Language Models

    Sep 1, 2026Bhuvan Koduru, Dareen Safar B Alharthi, Rita Singh +1Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio-Language Models

    Language Technologies Institute Carnegie Mellon University

  16. Closing the Verification Loop: Self-Check Captioning for Long-Paragraph Detailed Audio Captioning

    Aug 31, 2026Fengji Ma, Yan Rong, Xu Li +3Audio-Language ModelsAudio Captioning

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Kling Team, Kuaishou Technology

  17. Textual Acoustic Grounding for Generalizable LLM-Based Deepfake Voice Detection

    Aug 31, 2026Yassine El Kheir, Xin Wang, Wanqing Ge +3Audio Deepfake DetectionOOD Generalization

    German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin, Germany · Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany · National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

  18. SPHERE: Automatic Music Upmixing via Audio Language Model Post-Training with Spatial Heuristic Rewards

    Aug 31, 2026Zixun Guo, Calvin Murdock, Sanjeel Parekh +4Audio-Language ModelsSpatial Audio

    1Meta Reality Labs, USA 2Queen Mary University of London, UK

  19. TEMPO: Temporally-grounded Multi-task Post-training for Large Audio-Language Models

    Aug 30, 2026Apoorva Kulkarni, Kaousheik Jayakumar, Sreyan Ghosh +3Audio UnderstandingAudio-Language Models

    University of Maryland, College Park, USA · CNH Industrial India

  20. From Inaudible Inputs to Model Failures: Low-Frequency Safety Risks in LALMs

    Aug 10, 2026Yuanhe Zhang, Weiliu Wang, Jie Ren +7Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio-Language Models

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Nanyang Technological University +3

  21. Multilingual Emotion Neurons in Large Audio-Language Models

    Aug 9, 2026Xiutian Zhao, Philipp Koehn, Björn Schuller +1Cross-Lingual Representation AlignmentAudio-Language Models

    Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP), Johns Hopkins University, USA · Group on Language, Audio & Music (GLAM), Imperial College London, UK

  22. Spoken Function Calling: A New Perspective on Spoken Language Understanding for Large Audio Language Models

    Aug 5, 2026Yuezhang Peng, Yuxin Liu, Changfeng Gao +4Audio-Language Model EvaluationSpoken Language Understanding

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China · Token Foundry, Alibaba Group Hangzhou, China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Innovation Institute Shanghai, China

  23. HyPASE: Hyperbolic Geometry for Parameter-Efficient Speech Emotion Fine-Tuning Framework for Large Audio-Language Models

    Aug 5, 2026Tian Jin, Ruikang Zhang, Zefeng Zhao +2Audio-Language ModelsMultimodal Emotion Recognition

    Tongji University Shanghai, China · Peking University Beijing, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Shenzhen, China

  24. Can Foundation Models Hear What Made That Sound? A Tiered Benchmark of Audio-Language Models and Traditional Classifiers for Closed-Set Sound Source Identification

    Aug 3, 2026Sajjad Abdoli, Ghassan Al-Sumaidaee, Ahmad ElShiekh +1Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio-Language Models

    Perle

  25. ThinkOmni: A Reasoning-Driven Omni-Modal LLM Framework for Audio Forgery Detection and Localization

    Jul 29, 2026Yuxiong Xu, Kaiqing Lin, Bin Li +2Audio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

    Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Media Security, Shenzhen University · Afirstsoft Technology Group Co., Ltd.

  26. From Semantics to Readout: Mechanistic Understanding of Audio Tokens after Fine-Tuning for Temporal Audio Grounding

    Jul 28, 2026Yujian Ma, Jinqiu Sang, Ruizhe Li +2LLM GroundingLLM Fine-Tuning

    1Shanghai Institute of Artificial Intelligence for Education, East China Normal University, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, China · School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK +1

  27. X3^3-OPD: Distilling Reasoning into Large Audio-Language Models via On-Policy Alignment

    Jul 23, 2026Dongjie Fu, Di Cao, Xize Cheng +6Cross-Modal Knowledge DistillationAudio Reasoning

    1Tencent Hunyuan · 2Zhejiang University

  28. Audio-Zero: Label-Free Self-Evolution for Fine-Grained Audio Reasoning

    Jul 22, 2026Siqian Tong, Xuan Li, Chaozhuo Li +5Audio ReasoningAudio-Language Models

    Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · 3Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence +3

  29. Auditing Protocol-Level Shortcuts in Large Audio Language Model Judges for Speech Evaluation

    Jul 15, 2026Joonyong Park, David M. Chan, Yuki Saito +1Audio-Language Model EvaluationLLM Auditing

    Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · Berkeley AI Research (BAIR), University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

  30. The Sound of Absence: Audio-Language Embedding Models Struggle with Negation

    Jul 14, 2026Chun-Yi Kuan, Hung-yi LeeAudio-Language Model EvaluationAudio-Language Models

    ♡Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan · ♣Artificial Intelligence Center of Research Excellence (AI-CoRE), National Taiwan University, Taiwan