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  1. Omni-Embed-Audio: Leveraging Multimodal LLMs for Robust Audio-Text Retrieval

    Apr 20, 2026HaeJun Yoo, Yongseop Shin, Insung Lee +2Audio-Language Model EvaluationMultimodal IR

    Sogang University

  2. Audio-DeepThinker: Progressive Reasoning-Aware Reinforcement Learning for High-Quality Chain-of-Thought Emergence in Audio Language Models

    Apr 20, 2026Xiang He, Chenxing Li, Jinting Wang +5RL for Language Model ReasoningAudio Reasoning

    Tencent AI Lab, Beijing, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China

  3. Putting HUMANS first: Efficient LAM Evaluation with Human Preference Alignment

    Apr 20, 2026Woody Haosheng Gan, William Held, Diyi YangAudio-Language Model EvaluationHuman Preference Modeling

    University of Southern California · Stanford University · OpenAthena

  4. VIBE: Voice-Induced open-ended Bias Evaluation for Large Audio-Language Models via Real-World Speech

    Apr 19, 2026Yi-Cheng Lin, Yusuke Hirota, Sung-Feng Huang +1Audio-Language Model EvaluationGender Bias in Language Models

    Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan · NVIDIA Research NVIDIA Taipei, Taiwan · AI Center of Research Excellence National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan

  5. Benign Fine-Tuning Breaks Safety Alignment in Audio LLMs

    Apr 17, 2026Jaechul Roh, Virat Shejwalkar, Amir HoumansadrLanguage Model Safety EvaluationLLM Fine-Tuning

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  6. NaijaS2ST: A Multi-Accent Benchmark for Speech-to-Speech Translation in Low-Resource Nigerian Languages

    Apr 17, 2026Marie Maltais, Yejin Jeon, Min Ma +7Speech TranslationAudio-Language Models

    Mila - Quebec AI Institute · McGill University · Google DeepMind +6

  7. Joint-Centric Dual Contrastive Alignment with Structure-Preserving and Information-Balanced Regularization

    Apr 17, 2026Habibeh Naderi, Behrouz Haji Soleimani, Stan MatwinCross-Modal LearningModality Imbalance

    Dalhousie University, Halifax NS, Canada

  8. TinyMU: A Compact Audio-Language Model for Music Understanding

    Apr 17, 2026Xiquan Li, Aurian Quelennec, Slim EssidSmall Language ModelsAudio Understanding

    LTCI, T´el´ecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  9. Listen, Pause, and Reason: Toward Perception-Grounded Hybrid Reasoning for Audio Understanding

    Apr 16, 2026Jieyi Wang, Yazhe Niu, Dexuan Xu +1Audio QAAudio Reasoning

    Shanghai AI Laboratory · Peking University · CUHK MMLab +1

  10. Hijacking Large Audio-Language Models via Context-Agnostic and Imperceptible Auditory Prompt Injection

    Apr 16, 2026Meng Chen, Kun Wang, Li Lu +2Audio-Language ModelsLLM Security

    The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University · Hangzhou High-Tech Zone (Binjiang) Institute of Blockchain and Data Security · National University of Singapore +1

  11. Temporal Contrastive Decoding: A Training-Free Method for Large Audio-Language Models

    Apr 16, 2026Yanda Li, Yuhan Liu, Zirui Song +3Audio UnderstandingAudio-Language Models

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE · Beijing Jiaotong University, China

  12. KoALa-Bench: Evaluating Large Audio Language Models on Korean Speech Understanding and Faithfulness

    Mar 30, 2026Jinyoung Kim, Hyeongsoo Lim, Eunseo Seo +4Audio-Language Model EvaluationSpeech Processing

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Chung-Ang University · Upstage AI

  13. When Demonstrations Fail: Diagnosing the Limits of In-Context Learning in Large Audio-Language Models with Progressive Cue Removal

    Mar 20, 2026Yen-Ting Piao, Jay Chiehen Liao, Wei-Tang Chien +5Audio-Language Model EvaluationLLM Evaluation

    National Taiwan University, Taiwan

  14. PARSA-Bench: A Comprehensive Persian Audio-Language Model Benchmark

    Mar 15, 2026Mohammad Javad Ranjbar Kalahroodi, Mohammad Amini, Parmis Bathayan +2Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Reasoning

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran · Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran

  15. Causal Tracing of Audio-Text Fusion in Large Audio Language Models

    Mar 14, 2026Wei-Chih Chen, Chien-yu Huang, Hung-yi LeeLLM InterpretabilityAudio Understanding

    National Taiwan University, Taiwan · Carnegie Mellon University, United States

  16. MUGEN: Evaluating and Improving Multi-audio Understanding of Large Audio-Language Models

    Mar 10, 2026Chih-Kai Yang, Yun-Shao Tsai, Yu-Kai Guo +7Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Understanding

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

  17. Focus Then Listen: An Empirical Study of Plug-and-Play Audio Enhancer for Noise-Robust Large Audio Language Models

    Mar 5, 2026Han Yin, Yang Xiao, Younghoo Kwon +2Audio UnderstandingAudio-Language Models

    School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea · University of Melbourne, Australia

  18. When Scaling Fails: Mitigating Audio Perception Decay of LALMs via Multi-Step Perception-Aware Reasoning

    Feb 28, 2026Ruixiang Mao, Xiangnan Ma, Dan Chen +12Audio ReasoningAudio Understanding

    Northeastern University,China · NiuTrans Research.

  19. Re-purposing Multimodal Large Language Models for Audio-Text Retrieval

    Feb 20, 2026Jilan Xu, Carl Thomé, Danijela Horak +2Multimodal Large Language ModelsAudio Understanding

    Visual Geometry Group, University of Oxford · Epidemic Sound · School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  20. Event-Grounded Question Answering over Long Audio via Structured Retrieval

    Feb 16, 2026Kartik Hegde, Arvind Krishna Sridhar, Naveen Vakada +2Multimodal RAGAudio QA

    Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., India · Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA

  21. Bagpiper: Solving Open-Ended Audio Tasks via Rich Captions

    Feb 5, 2026Jinchuan Tian, Haoran Wang, Bo-Hao Su +14Audio UnderstandingAudio-Language Models

    1Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University · 2LY Corporation · 3NVIDIA Research

  22. RA-QA: A Benchmarking System for Respiratory Audio Question Answering Under Real-World Heterogeneity

    Feb 4, 2026Gaia A. Bertolino, Yuwei Zhang, Tong Xia +2Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio QA

    University of Cambridge · Cambridge, United Kingdom · Tsinghua University +3

  23. Multi-Task Instruction Tuning via Data Scheduling for Low-Resource Arabic SpeechLLMs

    Jan 18, 2026Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar ChowdhurySpoken Language UnderstandingSpeech Processing

    Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar

  24. HeartMuLa: A Family of Open Sourced Music Foundation Models

    Jan 15, 2026Dongchao Yang, Yuxin Xie, Yuguo Yin +26Text-to-Music GenerationNeural Audio Codecs

  25. ORCA: Open-ended Response Correctness Assessment for Audio Question Answering

    Nov 28, 2025Šimon Sedláček, Sara Barahona, Bolaji Yusuf +9Audio-Language Model EvaluationLLM Evaluation

    AUDIAS, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain · University of Buenos Aires, Argentina · Tufts University, USA +1

  26. Revisiting Audio-language Pretraining for Learning General-purpose Audio Representation

    Nov 20, 2025Wei-Cheng Tseng, Xuanru Zhou, Mingyue Huo +3Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Representation Learning

    University of Texas at Austin · Tencent AI Lab Seattle · Zhejiang University +1

  27. Silence is Golden: Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Audio-Language Models via Layer-Weighted Vector Steering

    Oct 14, 2025Tsung-En Lin, Kuan-Yi Lee, Hung-Yi LeeAudio QAHallucination in Language Models

    National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan · ASUS Open Cloud Infrastructure Software Center, Taipei, Taiwan

  28. VCB Bench: An Evaluation Benchmark for Audio-Grounded Large Language Model Conversational Agents

    Oct 13, 2025Jiliang Hu, Wenfu Wang, Zuchao Li +6Audio-Language Model EvaluationVoice Agent Evaluation

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China · Tencent AI Lab, Beijing, China

  29. Robustness assessment of large audio language models in multiple-choice evaluation

    Oct 6, 2025Fernando López, Santosh Kesiraju, Jordi LuqueAudio-Language Model EvaluationAudio QA

    Scientific Research, Telef´onica Innovaci´on Digital, Spain · Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

  30. Hearing the Order: Investigating Position Bias in Large Audio-Language Models

    Oct 1, 2025Yu-Xiang Lin, Chen-An Li, Sheng-Lun Wei +3Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio-Language Models

    National Taiwan University