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  1. 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.

  2. AuditoryHuM: Auditory Scene Label Generation and Clustering using Human-MLLM Collaboration

    Feb 23, 2026Henry Zhong, Jörg M. Buchholz, Julian Maclaren +2ClusteringLLM-Assisted Annotation

    Australian Hearing Hub, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia · Google Research Australia, Sydney, Australia

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. SONIC-O1: A Real-World Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models on Audio-Video Understanding

    Jan 29, 2026Ahmed Y. Radwan, Christos Emmanouilidis, Hina Tabassum +2Audio-Language Model EvaluationMultimodal Grounding

    Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, MaRS Centre, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada · University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands · York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada

  8. AVMeme Exam: A Multimodal Multilingual Multicultural Benchmark for LLMs' Contextual and Cultural Knowledge and Thinking

    Jan 25, 2026Xilin Jiang, Qiaolin Wang, Junkai Wu +30Audio-Visual UnderstandingMultimodal Large Language Models

    Columbia University · University of Washington · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign +5

  9. 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

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

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

  11. TagSpeech: End-to-End Multi-Speaker ASR and Diarization with Fine-Grained Temporal Grounding

    Jan 11, 2026Mingyue Huo, Yiwen Shao, Yuheng ZhangAudio UnderstandingAutomatic Speech Recognition

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Johns Hopkins University

  12. FastSLM: Hierarchical Temporal Abstraction for Efficient Long-Form Speech Adaptation

    Jan 8, 2026Junseok Lee, Chang-Jae ChunMultimodal Large Language ModelsSpeech Processing

    OKESTRO · Sejong University

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Do Modern Video-LLMs Need to Listen? A Benchmark Audit and Scalable Remedy

    Sep 22, 2025Geewook Kim, Minjoon SeoVLM EvaluationAudio-Visual Understanding

    NAVER Cloud AI, South Korea · KAIST AI, South Korea

  17. BabyHuBERT: Multilingual Self-Supervised Learning for Segmenting Speakers in Child-Centered Long-Form Recordings

    Sep 18, 2025Théo Charlot, Tarek Kunze, Maxime Poli +3Speech Foundation ModelsSpeech Processing

    LSCP, DEC, ENS, EHESS, CNRS, PSL University, France · Laboratoire d’Informatique et Syst`emes, Universit´e Aix-Marseille, CNRS, France

  18. OpenBEATs: A Fully Open-Source General-Purpose Audio Encoder

    Jul 18, 2025Shikhar Bharadwaj, Samuele Cornell, Kwanghee Choi +4Audio Representation LearningAudio QA

    Carnegie Mellon University, USA · National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

  19. Audio-Language Models for Audio-Centric Tasks: A Systematic Survey

    Jan 25, 2025Yi Su, Jisheng Bai, Qisheng Xu +2Audio Representation LearningAudio Understanding

    College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China · School of Communications and Information Engineering, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi’an, China