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  1. An Evaluation Framework for Structured Audio Captions Validated by Controlled Perturbations

    Jul 23, 2026Liang-Yuan Wu, Sripathi Sridhar, Mark Cartwright +1Audio UnderstandingAutomated Evaluation

    New York University, New York, USA · New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA

  2. Encoder-Side Neuron Identification and Amplification for Acoustic Perception in Large Audio-Language Models

    Jul 13, 2026Yu-Han Huang, Chih-Kai Yang, Ke-Han Lu +2Audio UnderstandingAudio-Language Models

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

  3. GigaChat Audio: Time-aware Large Audio Language Model

    Jul 11, 2026Aleksandr Kutsakov, Mariia Sadovina, Georgii Gospodinov +4Audio QAAudio Understanding

    SaluteDevices, Russia

  4. TriA Pipeline: A Large-Scale Automatic Audio Annotation Pipeline For Audio Classification In Specific Scenarios

    Jul 7, 2026Hong Lyu, Mingru Yang, Qianhua He +3Training Data CurationAudio Understanding

    School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

  5. Unified Audio Intelligence Without Regressing on Text Intelligence

    Jul 6, 2026Zhifeng Kong, Sang-gil Lee, Jaehyeon Kim +17TTS SynthesisUnified Multimodal Models

    NVIDIA

  6. Auto-AEG: Scalable Data Construction for Open-Vocabulary Audio Event Grounding

    Jul 5, 2026Zihan Zhang, Xize Cheng, Wenhao Yan +5Audio UnderstandingAudio-Language Models

    Zhejiang University · Tsinghua University

  7. Probing Low-Level Acoustic Attribute Encoding in CLAP Audio Embeddings

    Jul 4, 2026Héctor Martel, Joe Hennessy-Priest, Taemin ChoRepresentation GeometryAudio Representation Learning

    BandLab Technologies, Singapore

  8. An Efficient vLLM-Based Inference Pipeline for Unified Audio Understanding and Generation

    Jul 2, 2026Haoran Wang, Jinchuan Tian, Siddhant Arora +1Audio UnderstandingSpeech Language Models

    Carnegie Mellon University

  9. Grammar-Guided Hierarchical Parsing for Long-form Audio Activity Recognition

    Jun 26, 2026Peng Zhang, Qingyu Luo, Philip J. B. Jackson +1Temporal Action SegmentationHuman Activity Recognition

    Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, U.K.

  10. From Sounds to Scenes: A Benchmark for Evaluating Context-Aware Auditory Scene Understanding in Large Audio Language Models

    Jun 24, 2026Pengfei Zhang, Hoang H Nguyen, Kazi Shaharair Sharif +6Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Understanding

    University of California Irvine · University of Illinois Chicago · Kennesaw State University

  11. Beyond Classification: A Cough Regression Benchmark for Respiratory Acoustic Foundation Models

    Jun 13, 2026Mayur Sanap, Prasanna Desikan, Edgar LobatonAudio UnderstandingClinical Prediction

    Centific Global Solutions Inc. · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.

  12. 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

  13. Decoding Insect Song: A Multitask Semisupervised Orthoptera Bioacoustic Classifier

    Jun 11, 2026Olga Isupova, Danil Kuzin, Ella Browning +2Audio Representation LearningAudio Understanding

    Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  14. From Physics to Representation: Audio Learning with Synthetic Pre-training via Procedural Generation

    Jun 11, 2026Fengrui Liu, Ruiyang Huang, Qijian Zheng +2Synthetic Data PretrainingAudio Representation Learning

    East China Normal University · Southeast University · Fudan University +1

  15. Dolph2Vec: Self-Supervised Representations of Dolphin Vocalizations

    Jun 10, 2026Chiara Semenzin, Faadil Mustun, Roberto Dessi +5Audio Representation LearningAudio Understanding

    École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France · Not Diamond, San Francisco, USA · Institut du Cerveau, Paris, France +1

  16. 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

  17. Lung-SRAD: Spectral-Aware Regularized Audio DASS with Dual-Axis Patch-Mix Contrastive Learning for Respiratory Sound Classification

    Jun 10, 2026Hemansh Shridhar, Miika Toikkanen, June-Woo KimContrastive LearningSpectral Regularization

    RSC LAB, MODULABS, Republic of Korea · Department of Electronic Engineering, Wonkwang University, Republic of Korea · AI Convergence Research Institute, Wonkwang University, Republic of Korea

  18. Context-Aware Multimodal Claim Verification in Spoken Dialogues

    Jun 9, 2026Chaewan Chun, Delvin Ce Zhang, Dongwon LeeClaim VerificationAudio Understanding

    The Pennsylvania State University, USA · University of Sheffield, UK

  19. 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)

  20. AuRA: Internalizing Audio Understanding into LLMs as LoRA

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

    Meituan · Jilin University

  21. 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

  22. ViP-VL: Vietnamese Self-supervised Speech Pretraining Model with Vector-Quantization Learning

    Jun 9, 2026Khanh Le, Kiet Anh Hoang, Bao Nguyen +5Audio Representation LearningSpeech Processing

    VinUniversity, Vietnam · UNEY, Switzerland

  23. 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

  24. LLM can Read Spectrogram: Encoder-free Speech-Language Modeling

    Jun 8, 2026Ruchao Fan, Yiming Wang, Yuxuan Hu +6Spoken Language UnderstandingAudio Understanding

    Microsoft, USA

  25. Is Text All You Need? Text as a Universal Information Bottleneck for Speech LLMs

    Jun 8, 2026Ming-Hao Hsu, Yuxuan Hu, Shujie Liu +3Audio Representation LearningAudio Understanding

    School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China. · Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA. · Microsoft Research Asia, Hong Kong, China.

  26. 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

  27. Titans-as-a-Layer: Test-Time Memory for Conversational Speech Emotion Recognition

    Jun 7, 2026Daniel Chen, Qicong Hu, Yang Xiao +2Memory-Augmented Language ModelsAudio Understanding

    Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · School of Computer and Information Technology, Melbourne, Australia

  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. AeroSpectra Sentinel: An Auditable LLM Prompt-Chaining Decision-Support Workflow for Acute Asthma Risk Assessment from Respiratory Sounds and Clinical Signals

    Jun 6, 2026Aueaphum AueawatthanaphisutLLM AuditingClinical Decision Support

    School of Information, Computer, and Communication Technology Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University Pathum Thani, Thailand

  30. GlobeAudio: A Multilingual Multicultural Benchmark for Naturalistic Evaluation of Large Audio-Language Models

    Jun 6, 2026Ryner Tan, Wenxuan ZhangAudio-Language Model EvaluationCross-Cultural Language Model Evaluation

    Singapore University of Technology and Design