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  1. Mixed-Precision Information Bottlenecks for On-Device Trait-State Disentanglement in Bipolar Agitation Detection

    May 4, 2026Joydeep ChandraMixed-Precision QuantizationInformation Bottleneck

    Department of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

  2. MedMosaic: A Challenging Large Scale Benchmark of Diverse Medical Audio

    May 1, 2026Harshit Rajgarhia, Shuubham Ojha, Asif Shaik +4Audio QAHealthcare

    Centific Global Solutions Inc. · University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

  3. GaMMA: Towards Joint Global-Temporal Music Understanding in Large Multimodal Models

    May 1, 2026Zuyao You, Zhesong Yu, Mingyu Liu +3Multimodal PretrainingMultimodal Large Language Models

    1Fudan University · 2ByteDance

  4. From Birdsong to Rumbles: Classifying Elephant Calls with Out-of-Species Embeddings

    Apr 30, 2026Christiaan M. Geldenhuys, Thomas R. NieslerAudio Representation LearningAudio Understanding

    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Stellenbosch

  5. Predicting Upcoming Stuttering Events from Three-Second Audio: Stratified Evaluation Reveals Severity-Selective Precursors, and the Model Deploys Fully On-Device

    Apr 30, 2026Nazar KozakSpeech ProcessingAudio Understanding

    Kozak Technologies Inc, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA

  6. ASR-Agnostic Multimodal Spectrotemporal Modeling for Early Dementia Detection

    Apr 29, 2026Chukwuemeka Ugwu, Oluwafemi Richard OyelekeSpeech-Based Dementia DetectionSpeech Processing

  7. Walking Through Uncertainty: An Empirical Study of Uncertainty Estimation for Audio-Aware Large Language Models

    Apr 28, 2026Chun-Yi Kuan, Wei-Ping Huang, Hung-yi LeeSemantic EntropyAudio Understanding

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

  8. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Efficient and Open Multimodal Intelligence

    Apr 27, 2026NVIDIA, :, Amala Sanjay Deshmukh +216Efficient Multimodal InferenceMultimodal Large Language Models

  9. All That Glitters Is Not Audio: Rethinking Text Priors and Audio Reliance in Audio-Language Evaluation

    Apr 27, 2026Leonardo Haw-Yang Foo, Chih-Kai Yang, Chen-An Li +2Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio QA

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

  10. Exploring Audio Hallucination in Egocentric Video Understanding

    Apr 26, 2026Ashish Seth, Xinhao Mei, Changsheng Zhao +9Audio-Visual UnderstandingHallucination in Language Models

    Meta · University Of Maryland, College Park

  11. HeadRouter: Dynamic Head-Weight Routing for Task-Adaptive Audio Token Pruning in Large Audio Language Models

    Apr 26, 2026Peize He, Yaodi Luo, Xiaoqian Liu +7Audio Token CompressionSelf-Attention

    1EPIC Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2DAIL Tech · 3Northeastern University +2

  12. Au-M-ol: A Unified Model for Medical Audio and Language Understanding

    Apr 25, 2026Meizhu Liu, Nistha Mitra, Paul Li +3Speech ProcessingAudio Understanding

    Oracle AI Science · Neuramill

  13. AUDITA: A New Dataset to Audit Humans vs. AI Skill at Audio QA

    Apr 23, 2026Tasnim Kabir, Dmytro Kurdydyk, Aadi Palnitkar +3Audio QAAudio Reasoning

    University of Maryland · Davidson College · Columbia University +1

  14. HalluAudio: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Hallucination Detection in Large Audio-Language Models

    Apr 21, 2026Feiyu Zhao, Yiming Chen, Wenhuan Lu +3Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio-Language Model Hallucination Detection

    College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, China · ASUS Intelligent Cloud Services, Singapore

  15. UAF: A Unified Audio Front-end LLM for Full-Duplex Speech Interaction

    Apr 21, 2026Yadong Li, Guoxin Wu, Haiping Hou +1Speech ProcessingAudio Understanding

    Alibaba Inc.

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Still Between Us? Evaluating and Improving Voice Assistant Robustness to Third-Party Interruptions

    Apr 19, 2026Dongwook Lee, Eunwoo Song, Che Hyun Lee +2Spoken Dialogue SystemsAudio Understanding

    1Interdisciplinary Program in Artificial Intelligence, Seoul National University (SNU) · Department of EE, Yonsei University · Department of ECE, SNU +2

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. VoxSafeBench: Not Just What Is Said, but Who, How, and Where

    Apr 16, 2026Yuxiang Wang, Hongyu Liu, Yijiang Xu +9Language Model Safety EvaluationPrivacy Leakage in Language Models

    1The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · 2Shenzhen Loop Area Institute · 3Amphion Technology Co., Ltd.

  24. FastTurn: Unifying Acoustic and Streaming Semantic Cues for Low-Latency and Robust Turn Detection

    Apr 2, 2026Chengyou Wang, Hongfei Xue, Mingchen Shao +9Spoken Dialogue SystemsAudio Understanding

    Shengwang · QualiaLabs

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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