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  1. STEMMA: Song-to-Stem Multi-Audio Reasoning for Large Audio Language Models

    Oct 8, 2026Hoyeol Sohn, Wonil Kim, Keunhyoung Kim +7Audio ReasoningAudio-Language Models

    Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea · Neutune, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  2. Listen-to-Reason: Listen with Experts, Retrieve over a Graph, Reason with LLMs

    Oct 7, 2026Pooneh Mousavi, Mirco Ravanelli, Cem SubakanAudio-Language ModelsAudio Reasoning

    Concordia University · Mila – Quebec AI Institute · Laval University

  3. AURAL: Adaptive Latent Reasoning with Joint Chunk for Speech Language Models

    Oct 1, 2026Yuxiang Wang, Kunyu Feng, Yuancheng Wang +12RL for Language Model ReasoningAudio Reasoning

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Tencent Hunyuan · Tsinghua University +2

  4. AudioJev: Direct Audio Decisions with Order-Calibrated Probabilities

    Oct 1, 2026Sihan Lv, Zhen Li, Zhiqi Cao +4Audio QAAudio Reasoning

    Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing, China · Innovation and Management Center of the School of Software (Ningbo), Zhejiang University, Ningbo, China +2

  5. RMS-AQA: A Two-Stage Spatial Audio Question Answering Benchmark for Real-World Domestic Environments

    Oct 1, 2026Peihao Chen, Qing Wang, Lichun Fan +12Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio QA

    University of Science and Technology of China, China · Xiaomi Corporation, China · DataoceanAI, China +2

  6. Thinking in Depth, Speaking Directly: Recurrent Latent Reasoning for Paralinguistically Grounded Spoken Dialogue

    Sep 29, 2026Shengbo Cai, Yuxiang Wang, Jingran Xie +5Audio ReasoningSpeech Language Models

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

  7. Probing Large Audio-Language Models for Compositional Understanding of Sounding Actions

    Sep 28, 2026Michel Olvera, Paraskevas Stamatiadis, Changhong Wang +1Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Reasoning

    S2A, LTCI, IDS · S2A, IDS

  8. Almost Human, Except When It Matters: VoxParity and the Decisions a Voice Should Change

    Sep 28, 2026Bhavik ManglaSpoken Dialogue SystemsAudio Reasoning

    Independent Research

  9. On Temporal Binding in Large Audio Language Models

    Sep 28, 2026Paul Primus, Gerhard WidmerLLM InterpretabilityAudio Reasoning

    Institute of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria · LIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

  10. SAIL: Spatial Audio Intelligence with Large Language Models via Disentangled Acoustic-Spatial Encoding and Dual-Stream Q-Former

    Sep 28, 2026Zhengding Luo, Jinyang Wu, Haozhe Ma +3Audio ReasoningDirection-of-Arrival Estimation

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Singapore Management University · Tencent Hy Frontier Lab, Singapore +2

  11. Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: Towards Reliable Agentic Voice Interaction

    Sep 21, 2026Lujia Bao, Qian Chen, Luyao Cheng +15Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsSpeech Foundation Models

    Alibaba Token Foundry, Alibaba Group

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. ToolDF: Tool-Integrated Reasoning for Mixed-Authenticity Audio Deepfake Detection

    Sep 3, 2026Taewoo Kim, Young Han Lee, Nam In Park +1Audio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

    Multi-Modal Research Center, KETI, South Korea · Digital Analysis Section, National Forensic Service, South Korea · Department of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University, South Korea

  16. VoiceLongMemEval: Do Assistants Remember How You Sounded?

    Sep 1, 2026Ramit Pahwa, Parivesh Priye, Apoorva BeeduAudio-Language Model EvaluationLong-Context Language Model Evaluation

    Rivian VW Tech

  17. LongAudioSpan: Spanning the Duration and Depth of Audio Comprehension

    Aug 26, 2026Wen Huang, Yunfei Chu, Meng Gao +2Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Reasoning

    Qwen Team, Alibaba Group · Tsinghua University · The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  18. MRMAD: A Multi-Round Multi-Audio Benchmark for Evaluating Acoustic Degradation Perception in Large Audio-Language Models

    Aug 23, 2026Yize Li, Ningyuan Yang, Sile Yin +6Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Reasoning

    Northeastern University · Stony Brook University · Bose Corporation

  19. Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Rubrics as Rewards for Audio Reasoning

    Aug 3, 2026Fangxu Yu, Tao Feng, Dehai Min +6Audio ReasoningRubric-Based RL

    University of Maryland, College Park · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · University of Illinois Chicago +2

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. Comparative Reasoning: Making an Audio Language Model Better at Comparing Emotions

    Jun 23, 2026Abinay Reddy Naini, Jaeyeon Kim, Chao-Han Huck Yang +2Audio-Language Model EvaluationPairwise Comparison

    Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, US · NVIDIA

  23. Learning from Audio-Dependency Errors: Data Curation Strategies Based on Model Confusion Patterns in Audio Question Answering

    Jun 20, 2026Hyeonuk NamAudio-Language Model EvaluationAudio QA

    Independent Researcher · Seoul, South Korea

  24. EChO-Agent: Evidence Chain Orchestration Agent for Audio Reasoning

    Jun 13, 2026Siyuan Zhang, Jian Zong, Junyu Wang +7Audio QATool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  25. AudioDER: A Deduplication-Enhanced Reasoning Dataset for Post-Training Large Audio-Language Models

    Jun 12, 2026Hui Geng, Yi Su, Han Yin +7Audio ReasoningAudio-Language Models

    College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology Changsha, Hunan, China · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Korea · Shanghai Jiaotong University Shanghai, China

  26. Spatio-Temporal Audio Language Modeling for Dynamic Sound Sources

    Jun 12, 2026Oh Hyun-Bin, Kazuki Shimada, Yuhta Takida +6Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Representation Learning

    1POSTECH · 2Sony AI · 4Sungkyunkwan University +2

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. Continuous Audio Thinking for Large Audio Language Models

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

    KAIST, South Korea

  30. 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