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  1. Leveraging Audio-LLMs to Filter Speech-to-Speech Training Data

    Jun 11, 2026Qixu Chen, Satoshi NakamuraSpeech TranslationAudio-Language Models

    School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China · School of Artificial Intelligence The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

  2. Which Speech Representation Better Matches Text-Native Reasoning? A Study of Speech-Text Alignment on Frame Rate and Representation

    Jun 10, 2026Zhen Ye, Xu Tan, Yiming Li +10Spoken Language UnderstandingAudio Representation Learning

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR · Tencent, China · Independent Researcher +4

  3. Steering Where to Listen: Instruction-Based Activation Steering Redirects Temporal Attention in Large Audio-Language Models

    Jun 9, 2026Tsung-En Lin, Hung-Yi LeeLanguage Model SteeringAudio Understanding

    National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan · NTU Artificial Intelligence Center of Research Excellence (NTU AI-CoRE)

  4. AuRA: Internalizing Audio Understanding into LLMs as LoRA

    Jun 9, 2026Bo Cheng, Lei Shi, Zhanyu Ma +5Spoken Language UnderstandingAudio Understanding

    Meituan · Jilin University

  5. Spatial-Omni: Spatial Audio Understanding Integration in Multimodal LLMs via FOA Encoding

    Jun 9, 2026Zhiyuan Zhu, Yixuan Chen, Yiwen Shao +13Multimodal Large Language ModelsAudio Understanding

    Zhejiang University · Tencent Hunyuan

  6. Enhancing Multilingual LLM-based ASR with Mixture of Experts and Dynamic Downsampling

    Jun 9, 2026Guodong Lin, Ziqi Chen, Yuxiang Fu +2Audio-Language ModelsSpeech Language Models

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science Technology Ltd., China

  7. RAIL: Rethinking Auditory Intelligence in Large Audio-Language Models with a CHC-Grounded Benchmark

    Jun 9, 2026Hongyu Jin, Siyi Wang, Yang Xiao +10Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Understanding

    School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Australia · School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, China · Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Ias,i, Romania +3

  8. RespiraMFM: A Multimodal Foundation Model with Contrastive Audio-Language Alignment for Respiratory Disease Identification

    Jun 8, 2026Shakhrul Iman Siam, Tiantian Feng, Jiankun Zhang +2HealthcareAudio-Language Models

    The Ohio State University · University of Southern California · University of Chicago

  9. AudioProcessBench: Benchmark for Identifying Process Errors in Audio-Grounded Reasoning

    Jun 7, 2026Xiangyu Zhao, Junyu Yan, Yaling Shen +7Audio-Language Model EvaluationReasoning Evaluation

    Monash University · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · Orygen +1

  10. TinyGiantALM: A Compact Audio-Language Model for Intent-Aware Reasoning under Resource Constraints

    Jun 7, 2026Vinh-Thuan LyAudio ReasoningAudio Understanding

    Zalo AI, Vietnam · University of Science, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  11. Acoustic Cue Alignment in Audio Language Models for Speech Emotion Recognition

    Jun 5, 2026Iosif Tsangko, Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Björn W. SchullerAudio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Understanding

    CHI – Chair of Health Informatics, TUM University Hospital, Munich, Germany · MCML – Munich Center for Machine Learning, Munich, Germany · MDSI – Munich Data Science Institute, Munich, Germany +1

  12. Continuous Audio Thinking for Large Audio Language Models

    Jun 5, 2026Gyojin Han, Dong-Jae Lee, Changho Choi +2Audio ReasoningAudio Understanding

    KAIST, South Korea

  13. Beyond Semantic Dominance: Cognitive Affective Reasoning and Empathetic Response Alignment in Audio Language Models

    Jun 5, 2026Zhixian Zhao, Shuiyuan Wang, Wenjie Tian +3CoT ReasoningAudio Understanding

  14. SpectCount: Spectrotemporal Counting via Synthetic Signals Improves Large Audio Language Models

    Jun 5, 2026Seonuk Kim, Yonghyeon Jun, Ju Yeon Kang +3LLM Fine-TuningAudio Understanding

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and INMC, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

  15. Beyond Text Following: Repairable Arbitration Reversals in Audio-Language Models

    Jun 3, 2026Yichen Gao, Yiqun Zhang, Zijing Wang +7Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Understanding

    Northeastern University, China · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, China

  16. Audio Interaction Model

    Jun 3, 2026Zhifei Xie, Zihang Liu, Ze An +8Audio UnderstandingAudio-Language Models

    1NTU · 2NUS · 3CUHK

  17. Drift-Augmented Scoring: Text-Derived Noise Robustness for Zero-Shot Audio-Language Classification

    Jun 3, 2026Tu Vo, Sheir Zaheer, Chan Y. ParkFew-Shot Audio ClassificationAudio Understanding

    KC Machine Learning Lab

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

    Jun 1, 2026Hui Li, Yangfan Gao, Junlin Shang +4Audio Representation LearningNeural Audio Codecs

    Fudan University

  19. MOSS-Audio Technical Report

    Jun 1, 2026Chen Yang, Chufan Yu, Hanfu Chen +27Audio UnderstandingAudio-Language Models

  20. Audio Jailbreaks in Large Audio-Language Models: Taxonomy, Attack-Defense Analysis, and Cost-Aware Evaluation

    May 28, 2026Bo-Han Feng, Yu-Hsuan Li Liang, Chien-Feng Liu +2Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio-Language Models

    National Taiwan University

  21. COMET: Concept Space Dissection of the Modality Gap in Audio-Text Multimodal Contrastive Embeddings

    May 28, 2026Yonggang Zhu, Liting Gao, Aidong Men +1Audio UnderstandingAudio-Language Models

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China · Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, GU2 7XH Guildford, U.K.

  22. MusTBench: Benchmarking and Advancing Temporal Grounding in Music LLMs

    May 28, 2026Daeyong Kwon, Qiyu Wu, Shinobu Kuriya +6Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Understanding

    1Seoul National University · 2Sony Group Corporation · 3Sony AI

  23. Audio-Mind: An Auditable Agentic Framework for Audio Understanding

    May 27, 2026Yucheng Wang, Jing Peng, Hanqi Li +6Audio QAAudio Reasoning

    School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China · X-LANCE Lab, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China · School of Automation Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China +1

  24. VoiceGiraffe: A Benchmark for Extreme Long-Context Audio-Language Understanding

    May 27, 2026Jashin Ye, Dongxiao Wang, Yixuan Ye +10Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Understanding

    Future Living Lab, Alibaba

  25. Do Audio LLMs Listen or Read? Analyzing and Mitigating Paralinguistic Failures with VoxParadox

    May 26, 2026Jiacheng Pang, Ashutosh Chaubey, Mohammad SoleymaniAudio-Language Model EvaluationSpeech Processing

    Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  26. Escape the Language Prior: Mitigating Late-Stage Modality Collapse in Audio Reasoning via Modality-Aware Policy Optimization

    May 26, 2026Cihan Xiao, Yiwen Shao, Chenxing Li +5RL for Language Model ReasoningAudio Reasoning

    Johns Hopkins University · Tencent Hunyuan

  27. Learning When to Think While Listening in Large Audio-Language Models

    May 26, 2026Zhiyuan Song, Weici Zhao, Yang Xiao +3Audio QARL for Language Model Reasoning

    University of Pennsylvania

  28. FSA-GRPO: Teaching Auditory LLMs to Use Few-shot Demonstrations

    May 26, 2026Haolong Zheng, Siyin Wang, Xulin Fan +2RL for Language ModelsFew-Shot Domain Adaptation

    University of Illinois Urbana Champaign · Tsinghua University

  29. Why Can't They Remember? Uncovering Representation and Retrieval Bottlenecks in Multi-Turn Acoustic Memory

    May 26, 2026Yang Xiao, Siyi Wang, Han Yin +4Audio-Language Model EvaluationMemorization in Language Models

    1The University of Melbourne · 2KAIST · 3The University of Auckland +1

  30. Thaka at KSAA-2026 Task 2: Regularized Fine-Tuning for Arabic Speech Diacritization

    May 25, 2026Meshal Alamr, Hassan Alqaeri, Abdullah AldahlawiFine-TuningArabic NLP

    Thaka, Advanced AI and Information Technology Riyadh, Saudi Arabia