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MUUNRiver-Bench: Diagnosing Relation-Dependent Music Retrieval with Multimodal Instructions
Sep 14, 2026Zhancheng Guo, Congren Dai, Shangda Wu +4Audio Reasoning
Beyond Accuracy: ARIA-Rubrics for Evaluating Audio Reasoning in Large Audio Language Models
Sep 9, 2026Yupei Li, Qiyang Sun, Mohamed Mady +4Audio Reasoning Large Audio Language Models
VIBE: Video Instruction-aligned Background music gEneration
Aug 31, 2026Aryan Vijay Bhosale, Vaibhavi Lokegaonkar, Vishnu Raj +5Generative Music Models Vibe Coding
Robust Multi-Tier Infant-Centered Audio Understanding with Whisper via Structured Speaker Conditioning
Aug 12, 2026Xulin Fan, Jialu Li, Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan +4Self-Supervised Audio Representations Audio Reasoning
Listen, See and Track: Spatio-Temporal Audio-Visual Sound Event Reasoning for Omni-Modal Language Models
Aug 10, 2026Zhi Zeng, Cheng Zhang, Zesheng Yang +9Audio-Visual Reasoning First-Order Ambisonics
RAG-Audio: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Faithful Brain-to-Audio Reconstruction
Aug 10, 2026Ambuj Mehrish, Sebastiano VasconAudio Reasoning Audio Generation and Processing
From Inaudible Inputs to Model Failures: Low-Frequency Safety Risks in LALMs
Aug 10, 2026Yuanhe Zhang, Weiliu Wang, Jie Ren +7Large Audio Language Models Large Language Model Safety
VoxZip: Semantic-Anchored Temporal KV Cache Compression for Long-Context Audio Inference
Aug 9, 2026Wenxu Jia, Dongjie Fu, Xize Cheng +6Audio Tokens Key-Value Cache Compression
Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Rubrics as Rewards for Audio Reasoning
Aug 3, 2026Fangxu Yu, Tao Feng, Dehai Min +6Audio Reasoning Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning
Interpretable MEG Decoding of Perceived Speech: Cortical Sources and the Stimulus Features That Drive Retrieval
Aug 2, 2026Ilia Semenkov, Daria Kleeva, Ivan Dakhtin +2Wav2Vec Speaker Identity
MMAC: A Massive Multi-dimensional Benchmark for Audio Captioning
Jul 29, 2026Weijie Wu, Junbo Li, Lin Li +2Audio Reasoning Large Audio Language Models
Phylogenetic signal in marine mammal and bird vocalizations captured by audio foundation models: the limited benefit of domain-specific pretraining
Jul 24, 2026Víctor Rincón YepesAudio Reasoning Audio Generation and Processing
Audio-Zero: Label-Free Self-Evolution for Fine-Grained Audio Reasoning
Jul 22, 2026Siqian Tong, Xuan Li, Chaozhuo Li +5Audio Reasoning Audio Generation and Processing
Fusion Embedding: A Unified Embedding Space for Text, Image, Video, and Audio
Jul 21, 2026Abdul Basit Tonmoy, Kazi Fardinul Hoque, Md. Shahrier Islam Arham +1Audio Reasoning Audio Generation and Processing
Semantic Audio-driven Understanding for Dynamic Humanoid Whole Body Control
Jul 15, 2026J. M. A. Marcelo, M. Brienza, E. Bugli +4Long-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body Control Whole-Body Motion
AVSCap: Orchestrating Audio-Visual Synergy for Omni-modal Video Captioning
Jul 14, 2026Yanghai Wang, Jiahao Wang, Jiafu Tang +9Audio-Visual Consistency Video Captioning
Empowering Long-form Omni-modal Understanding with Robust Audio Perception
Jul 11, 2026Kaiying Yan, Luoyi Sun, Xiao Zhou +1Audio-Visual Reasoning Video Captioning
Dual-BEATs: Unlocking Zero-Shot Stereo Audio Perception in Audio Large Language Models via Dithering
Jul 9, 2026Shuo-Chun Lin, Hen-Hsen HuangFirst-Order Ambisonics Large Audio Language Models
Music I Care About: Automated Multimodal Benchmarking of LLM Music Perception Skills on (Almost) Any Music
Jul 7, 2026Tomáš Sourada, Katia Vendrame, Jan HajičMusic Understanding Multimodal Benchmarks
Q-TriM: Question-Guided Tri-Modal Attention for Audio-Visual Question Answering
Jul 4, 2026SungHun Kim, SeungJun BaekAudio-Visual Reasoning Cross-Modal Attention
Taste-aware music retrieval from audio embeddings
Jul 3, 2026Matteo Spanio, Antonio RodàMusic Understanding Audio Reasoning
Audio-Based Understanding of Audiobook Narration Appeal
Jul 2, 2026Shahar Elisha, Mariano Beguerisse-Díaz, Emmanouil BenetosAudio Reasoning Narratives
An Efficient vLLM-Based Inference Pipeline for Unified Audio Understanding and Generation
Jul 2, 2026Haoran Wang, Jinchuan Tian, Siddhant Arora +1Speech Language Models Audio Reasoning
UT-AISTimprt submission for ICME 2026 Grand Challenge on Academic Text-to-Music Generation
Jul 2, 2026Shunsuke Yoshida, Yu-Hua Chen, Satoru FukayamaGenerative Music Models Audio Reasoning
ALM2Vec: Learning Audio Embeddings for Universal Audio Retrieval with Large Audio-Language Models
Jun 27, 2026Fengjie Lu, Chenang Jiang, Jiarui Hai +2Audio Reasoning Self-Supervised Audio Representations
From General-Purpose Audio Tagging to Spatially Grounded Sound Event Localization and Detection
Jun 26, 2026Stefano Giacomelli, Stefano Damiano, Claudia Rinaldi +2Sound Source Localization Target Localization
wav2tok 2.0: Scalable Audio Tokenization Maintaining Explicit Pairwise Token Alignment for Efficient Audio Retrieval
Jun 25, 2026Adhiraj Banerjee, Vipul AroraAudio Tokens Audio Reasoning
STAR-VAE: Structured Topology-Aware Regularization for Audio Reconstruction and Generation
Jun 22, 2026Huadai Liu, Wen Wang, Kaicheng Luo +3Variational Autoencoder Latent Audio Reasoning
EChO-Agent: Evidence Chain Orchestration Agent for Audio Reasoning
Jun 13, 2026Siyuan Zhang, Jian Zong, Junyu Wang +7Audio Reasoning Audio Generation and Processing
OmniVideo-100K: A Dataset for Audio-Visual Reasoning through Structured Scripts and Evidence Chains
Jun 12, 2026Xinyue Cai, Chaoyou Fu, Yi-Fan Zhang +2Audio-Visual Reasoning Video Question Answering
Beyond task performance: Decoding bioacoustic embeddings with speech features
Jun 12, 2026Ines Nolasco, Jules Cauzinille, Marius Miron +8Acoustic Representation Acoustic
Conan-embedding-v3: Fusing Modality-Specific Models for Omni-Modal Embedding
Jun 8, 2026Shiyu Li, Zhiyuan Hu, Yifan Wang +3Omni-Modal Large Language Models Audio-Visual Reasoning
AudioProcessBench: Benchmark for Identifying Process Errors in Audio-Grounded Reasoning
Jun 7, 2026Xiangyu Zhao, Junyu Yan, Yaling Shen +7Audio Reasoning Audio Generation and Processing
TinyGiantALM: A Compact Audio-Language Model for Intent-Aware Reasoning under Resource Constraints
Jun 7, 2026Vinh-Thuan LyLarge Audio Language Models Audio Reasoning
Continuous Audio Thinking for Large Audio Language Models
Jun 5, 2026Gyojin Han, Dong-Jae Lee, Changho Choi +2Large Audio Language Models Audio Reasoning
Quality Audio Prototyping: a prototype system for unified sound retrieval and procedural generation
May 30, 2026Nelly Garcia, Aditya Bhattacharjee, Gabryel Mason-Williams +3Sonification Audio Generation and Processing
DeepFake Forensics AI: A Multi-Modal Detection and Blockchain-Anchored Evidence Management Platform
May 28, 2026Naisha MinnahDeepfake Detection Audio Reasoning
Audio-Mind: An Auditable Agentic Framework for Audio Understanding
May 27, 2026Yucheng Wang, Jing Peng, Hanqi Li +6Audio Reasoning Voice Agents
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 +5Audio Reasoning Cross-Modal
Locality Matters for Training-Free Audio Token Compression in Audio-Language Models
May 24, 2026Jiale Luo, Xiaoyu Liang, Haoji HuAudio Tokens Audio Reasoning
What Are We Actually Decoding? Source Attribution for Non-Invasive Brain-to-Language Retrieval
May 23, 2026Xinyu Zhang, Sichao Liu, Runhao Lu +2Auditory Attention Neural Recordings
Direct content-based retrieval from music scores images
May 21, 2026Noelia Luna-Barahona, Antonio Ríos-Vila, Félix Fuentes-Hurtado +2Music Understanding Composed Image Retrieval
LatentOmni: Rethinking Omni-Modal Understanding via Unified Audio-Visual Latent Reasoning
May 21, 2026Yifan Dai, Zhenhua Wu, Bohan Zeng +18Audio-Visual Reasoning Large Multimodal Models
Heterogeneity-Aware Dataset Scheduling for Efficient Audio Large Language Model Training
May 18, 2026Yanru Wu, Jianning Wang, Chongxin Gan +1Large Audio Language Models Audio Reasoning
A Survey of Large Audio Language Models: Generalization, Trustworthiness, and Outlook
May 18, 2026Kaiwen Luo, Zhenhong Zhou, Leo Wang +31Large Audio Language Models Large Language Model Safety
Bypassing Direct Reconstruction: Speech Detection from MEG via Large-Scale Audio Retrieval
May 13, 2026Boda Xiao, Bo Wang, Heping ChengAudio Reasoning Speaker Identity
When Vision Speaks for Sound
May 13, 2026Xiaofei Wen, Wenjie Jacky Mo, Xingyu Fu +6Audio-Visual Reasoning Audio Reasoning
Afrispeech Semantics: Evaluating Audio Semantic Reasoning in Spoken Language Models Across Domains and Accents
May 11, 2026Chibuzor Okocha, Christan GrantAudio Reasoning Paralinguistic Cues
EchoDistill:Alignment Noisy-to-Clean Self-Distillation for Robust Audio LLMs
May 11, 2026Liang Lin, Chunxi Luo, Kaiwen Luo +9Large Audio Language Models Audio Reasoning
Separate First, Fuse Later: Mitigating Cross-Modal Interference in Audio-Visual LLMs Reasoning with Modality-Specific Chain-of-Thought
May 11, 2026Xuanchen Li, Yuheng Lu, Chenrui Cui +6Audio-Visual Reasoning Audio Reasoning
Omni-DeepSearch: A Benchmark for Audio-Driven Omni-Modal Deep Search
May 9, 2026Tao Yu, yiming ding, Shenghua Chai +16Omni-Modal Large Language Models Multimodal Search Agents
TraceAV-Bench: Benchmarking Multi-Hop Trajectory Reasoning over Long Audio-Visual Videos
May 8, 2026Hengyi Feng, Hao Liang, Mingrui Chen +6Audio-Visual Reasoning Audio Reasoning
Do Joint Audio-Video Generation Models Understand Physics?
May 8, 2026Zijun Cui, Xiulong Liu, Hao Fang +8Joint Audio-Video Generation Audio-Visual Consistency
ReasonAudio: A Benchmark for Evaluating Reasoning Beyond Matching in Text-Audio Retrieval
May 5, 2026Honglei Zhang, Yuting Chen, Chenpeng Hu +2Audio Reasoning Text-To-Audio
Hearing the Room Through the Shape of the Drum: Modal-Guided Sound Recovery from Multi-Point Surface Vibrations
Apr 29, 2026Shai Bagon, Matan Kichler, Mark SheininVibration Acoustic
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 Reasoning Large Audio Language Models
Robust Audio-Text Retrieval via Cross-Modal Attention and Hybrid Loss
Apr 25, 2026Meizhu Liu, Matthew Rowe, Amit Agarwal +8Audio Reasoning Cross-Modal Attention
AUDITA: A New Dataset to Audit Humans vs. AI Skill at Audio QA
Apr 23, 2026Tasnim Kabir, Dmytro Kurdydyk, Aadi Palnitkar +3Audio Reasoning Text-To-Audio
ATIR: Towards Audio-Text Interleaved Contextual Retrieval
Apr 22, 2026Tong Zhao, Chenghao Zhang, Yutao Zhu +1Audio Reasoning Multimodal Retrieval
Omni-Embed-Audio: Leveraging Multimodal LLMs for Robust Audio-Text Retrieval
Apr 20, 2026HaeJun Yoo, Yongseop Shin, Insung Lee +2Audio Reasoning Speech-To-Text Alignment

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MUUNRiver-Bench: Diagnosing Relation-Dependent Music Retrieval with Multimodal Instructions

Zhancheng Guo, Congren Dai, Shangda Wu, Jianhuai Hu+3

Music retrieval is relation-dependent: given a reference track, a listener may seek its style with a new theme, a cover, or a comparable voice, and these intents demand contradictory rankings. We present MUUNRiver-Bench, a diagnostic benchmark whose reference-audio queries use natural-language instructions to define relevance. A pipeline combining expert genre priors, LLM-generated prompts and lyrics, synthesis, and expert review yields 3,440 tracks spanning 13 genres and 116 sub-genres, and seven tasks: similar-music, style-preserving lyric-rewriting, lyric-preserving style-rewriting, cover, vocal-timbre, isolated-vocal, and segment retrieval. Across six models in eight configurations, task-wise rank reversals reveal complementary biases: acoustic encoders favour local identity, whereas text-aligned encoders favour semantic relations. Frozen encoders diagnose default similarity preferences; instruction-aware and audio-text fusion systems provide exploratory tests of textual conditioning, with neither simple fusion scheme consistently improving its backbone