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  1. UT-AISTimprt submission for ICME 2026 Grand Challenge on Academic Text-to-Music Generation

    Jul 2, 2026Shunsuke Yoshida, Yu-Hua Chen, Satoru FukayamaMusic GenerationAudio Representation

  2. Evaluating Pretrained Music Embeddings for Cross-Performance Jazz Standard Recognition

    Jul 1, 2026Çağrı EserMusic UnderstandingAudio Latent

  3. Adaptive Perturbation Selection for Contrastive Audio Decoding

    Jun 30, 2026Aaron Isidore Grace, Zhouyuan Huo, Weiran WangLarge Audio Language ModelsContrastive Decoding

  4. ZEBRA: Zero-Shot Entropy-Regularized Prompt Learning for Base-to-Novel Generalization in Audio-Language Models

    Jun 30, 2026Asif Hanif, Mohammad YaqubLarge Audio Language ModelsZero-Shot Inference

  5. Beyond Cross-Reconstruction: Probing-Based Disentanglement Evaluation for Acoustic Teleportation Codecs

    Jun 30, 2026Philipp Grundhuber, Emanuël A. P. HabetsNeural Audio CodecsSpeaker Identity

  6. Beyond Binary Instrument QA: Probing Instrument Grounding in Music Audio-Language Models

    Jun 30, 2026Yujun Lee, Joonhyeok Shin, Hyoeun Kim +1Conversational Music RecommendationInstrument

  7. SwiftAudio: Data-Efficient Caption-Only Distillation for One-Step Text-to-Audio Diffusion-based Generation

    Jun 30, 2026Binh Mai, Tran Quoc Bao Le, Hung Dinh +1Zero-Shot Text-To-SpeechAudio Latent

  8. Preserving Speech-to-Text LLM Capabilities in Speech-to-Speech Generation

    Jun 29, 2026Yuxuan Hu, Heng Lu, Ruchao Fan +8Speech Large Language ModelsZero-Shot Text-To-Speech

  9. SyncCache: Exploiting Asymmetric Dynamics for Fast Audio-Driven Portrait Animation

    Jun 29, 2026Juncheng Ma, Yuxuan Du, Yanan Sun +8Audio LatentObject Articulation

  10. MeloDISinger: Melody-Aware & Duration-Preserving Singing Voice Editing with Audio Infilling

    Jun 29, 2026Yoonjeong Park, Jaekwon Im, Juhan NamSinging Voice ConversionMusic Editing

  11. ENC-ODE: Event-level Neurodegenerative Modeling in Continuous Time with Neural ODEs

    Jun 29, 2026Yujee Song, Seunghun Baek, Guorong Wu +1Neural Ordinary Differential EquationsAlzheimer

  12. From Failure Taxonomy to Intervention: A Diagnostic Methodology for Industry-Scale AVLM in Video and Live-Streaming Platform Moderation

    Jun 29, 2026Shuchang Ye, Jinqiang Yu, Zhujun Xiao +6Content ModerationStreaming Video

  13. BEST-RQ-2: Contextualize-Then-Predict, a Two-Step Approach for Self-Supervised Audio Representations

    Jun 29, 2026Ludovic K. Tuncay, Etienne Labbé, Thomas PellegriniAudio LatentAudio Representation

  14. VIB-AVSR: Variational Information Bottleneck for Noise-Robust LLM-Based Audio-Visual Speech Recognition

    Jun 28, 2026Piyush Arora, Navlika Singh, Umberto Cappellazzo +2Large Audio Language ModelsInformation Bottleneck

  15. Proteus: Automated Adversarial Robustness Testing for Audio Deepfake Detectors

    Jun 28, 2026Nicolas M. Müller, Aditya Tirumala Bukkapatnam, Zohaib AhmedAudio Deepfake DetectionDetection Framework

  16. ALM2Vec: Learning Audio Embeddings for Universal Audio Retrieval with Large Audio-Language Models

    Jun 27, 2026Fengjie Lu, Chenang Jiang, Jiarui Hai +2Audio RepresentationAudio Latent

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

    Jun 26, 2026Peng Zhang, Qingyu Luo, Philip J. B. Jackson +1Audio RepresentationDense Temporal Annotation

  18. Listening Between the Lines: Joint Learning of ASR Embeddings and LLM-Augmented Linguistics for Dementia Detection

    Jun 26, 2026Olivier Jiyoun Jung, Jonghyeon Park, Myungwoo OhAcoustic RepresentationAlzheimer

  19. HybridCodec: Modeling Discrete and Continuous Representations for Efficient Speech Language Models

    Jun 26, 2026Artem Ploujnikov, Francesco Verdini, Samir Sadok +1Audio LatentHybrid Transformer

  20. wav2tok 2.0: Scalable Audio Tokenization Maintaining Explicit Pairwise Token Alignment for Efficient Audio Retrieval

    Jun 25, 2026Adhiraj Banerjee, Vipul AroraAudio TokensDiscrete Speech Representations

  21. WQ-Fusion: Dynamic Gated Attention for Cross-Domain Audio Representation

    Jun 25, 2026Mingda Lin, Lei Ding, Xinyue Zhou +6Audio LatentAudio Encoders

  22. Soroll-IA: A Weakly Labeled Audio Dataset for Real-World Industrial Port Monitoring

    Jun 24, 2026Javier Naranjo-Alcazar, Jordi Grau-Haro, Ruben Ribes-Serrano +2Passive Acoustic MonitoringAudio

  23. Frequency-Aware Self-Supervised Music Representation Learning

    Jun 24, 2026Yicheng Gu, Junan Zhang, Jerry Li +2Mel-Frequency Cepstral CoefficientMusic Understanding

  24. 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 +6Large Audio Language ModelsSonification

  25. ParaPairAudioBench: Paralinguistic Pairwise Audio Benchmark for LALM-as-a-Judge

    Jun 23, 2026Jisu Jeon, Seungyeon Jwa, Joosung Lee +6Paralinguistic CuesLarge Audio Language Models

  26. Real-Time Interactive Music Generation via Data-Free Streaming Consistency Distillation

    Jun 23, 2026Baisen Wang, Chenxi Bao, Qisong HanMusic GenerationInstrument

  27. What Does a Pathological Speech Assessment Model Know about Acoustic Features? A Case Study on Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients

    Jun 23, 2026Tuan Nguyen, Corinne Fredouille, Alain Ghio +2Wav2VecSpeaker Recognition

  28. DTT-BSR+: A Generative-Regression Cascade for Music Source Restoration

    Jun 23, 2026Youran Ni, Shihong Tan, Yuzhu Wang +1Speech SeparationSpectral Reconstruction

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

    Jun 23, 2026Abinay Reddy Naini, Jaeyeon Kim, Chao-Han Huck Yang +2Large Audio Language ModelsEmotion Recognition

  30. The Anatomy of the CTC Oracle Gap: Acoustic Exhaustion and Linguistic Recovery

    Jun 22, 2026Ivan NovosadLibrispeechAcoustic Representation

  31. AudioCALM: Continuous Autoregressive Language Modeling for Universal Audio Generation

    Jun 22, 2026Huadai Liu, Kaicheng Luo, Wen Wang +4Audio LatentAudio

  32. STAR-VAE: Structured Topology-Aware Regularization for Audio Reconstruction and Generation

    Jun 22, 2026Huadai Liu, Wen Wang, Kaicheng Luo +3Variational AutoencoderAudio Latent

  33. Scaling Audio Models Efficiently: Joint Optimization of Scale, Resolution, Adaptation, Precision, and Sparsity

    Jun 22, 2026Vyom Agarwal, Mokshda Gangrade, Siddharth Pal +1Large Audio Language ModelsRepresentation Quality

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

    Jun 20, 2026Hyeonuk NamLarge Audio Language ModelsAudio

  35. How Well Do Self-Supervised Speech Models Encode Age and Gender in Children's Speech? A Layer-Wise Analysis Across Multiple Architectures

    Jun 20, 2026Abhijit Sinha, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Mohit Joshi +3Self-Supervised Speech ModelsWav2Vec

  36. InstructFX2FX: A Multi-Turn Text-to-Effect System for Sequential Audio Effect Refinement

    Jun 20, 2026Song-Ze Yu, Milan Liessens Dujardin, Yuxuan Cai +4Music EditingAudio

  37. ESPnet3: Infrastructure for Scalable Speech and Audio Research in the Foundation Model Era

    Jun 20, 2026Masao Someki, Alexander Polok, Carlos Carvalho +14Speech Large Language ModelsLarge Models

  38. Towards Detecting Neural Audio Codec Synthesized Heart Sounds

    Jun 19, 2026Girish, Orchid Chetia Phukan, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar +3Neural Audio CodecsAcoustic Representation

  39. UnityShots: Memory-Driven Multi-Shot Audio-Video Generation with Boundary-Aware Gating

    Jun 19, 2026Jiehui Huang, Yuechen Zhang, Bin Xia +7Joint Audio-Video GenerationAudio Latent

  40. Synthetic Audio Generation Framework for Air Traffic Control Speech Recognition

    Jun 19, 2026Raphaël Bagat, Zhe Zhang, Junichi Yamagishi +2Accented SpeechSynthetic Training Data

  41. Direct Raw Audio Signal Processing via Reservoir Computing: An Investigation into 'Feature-Free' Architectures

    Jun 19, 2026Rinku Sebastian, Simon O Keefe, Martin A TrefzerReservoir ComputingAudio

  42. Towards Dys-XAI: Influence-Based Explanations for Dysarthria Severity Assessment

    Jun 19, 2026Xiaoliang Wu, Qiyang Sun, Yupei Li +3ExplainabilityXai

  43. Compiling Differentiable Audio Graphs to Real-Time DSP

    Jun 19, 2026Facundo Franchino, Sebastian J. SchlechtMusic EditingAudio

  44. Bagpiper-Edit: Zero-Shot Open-Ended Audio Editing via Rich-Caption

    Jun 19, 2026Xun Gong, Jinchuan Tian, Haoran Wang +3Music EditingAudio

  45. AOR-Bench: Do Large Audio Language Models Over-Refuse Pseudo-Harmful Queries?

    Jun 19, 2026Jiaxi Yang, Chaewan Chun, Jason Lucas +2Large Audio Language ModelsLarge Language Model Safety

  46. Exploiting Neural Audio Codec Latents for Adversarial Audio Attacks

    Jun 18, 2026Sameek Bhattacharya, Bharath Krishnamurthy, Ajita RattaniNeural Audio CodecsAudio

  47. MixProLAP: Mixture-Induced Uncertainty Modeling for Probabilistic Language-Audio Pretraining

    Jun 18, 2026Yu Nakagome, Jaesong Lee, Soo-Whan ChungLarge Audio Language ModelsCross-Modal Alignment

  48. RFM-Editing 2: Text-Guided Audio Editing with Rectified Flow Matching and Coarse-to-Fine Diffusion Transformers

    Jun 18, 2026Liting Gao, Yonggang Zhu, Yaru Chen +5Music EditingMultimodal Diffusion Transformers

  49. Systematic Study of Dysarthric Speech Recognition: Spectral Features and Acoustic Models

    Jun 18, 2026Paban Sapkota, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Mikko Kurimo +2Dysarthric SpeechAcoustic Representation

  50. IndicContextEval: A Benchmark for Evaluating Context Utilisation in Audio Large Language Models Across 8 Indic Languages

    Jun 17, 2026Sakshi Joshi, Dhruv Subhash Rathi, Sanskar Singh +4Large Audio Language ModelsMultilingual Benchmark

  51. Who Wins the Conflict? Mechanistic Interpretability of Text Bias in Audio LLMs

    Jun 17, 2026Hyebin Cho, Suho Yoo, Jaehyuk Jang +2Large Audio Language ModelsConflict

  52. GRIDEX: Grid-Grounded Forensic Explanations for Deepfake Spectrogram Analysis

    Jun 17, 2026Thi Ngan Ha Do, Tingmin Wu, Alsharif Abuadbba +1Audio Deepfake DetectionDigital Forensics

  53. A Neuromorphic Trigger for Efficient Audio Event Detection

    Jun 16, 2026Benjamin Hatton, Oliver Rhodes, Luca PeresNeuromorphic HardwareSpiking Neural Networks

  54. A Closer Look at Failure Modes in Temporal Understanding of Large Audio-Language Models

    Jun 16, 2026Apoorva Kulkarni, Kaousheik Jayakumar, Sreyan Ghosh +3Large Audio Language ModelsAudio Representation

  55. ELSA: Acoustic Event-Level Semantic Alignment for Fine-Grained Reference-Free Text-to-Audio Evaluation

    Jun 16, 2026Shuntaro Suzuki, Kento Tokura, Daichi Yashima +3Audio RepresentationZero-Shot Text-To-Speech

  56. NarrativeWorldBench: A Frontier-Saturated Benchmark and a Latent World Model for Long-Horizon Co-Creative Audio Drama

    Jun 16, 2026Logan Mann, Abdur Rahman, Mohammad Saifullah +2NarrativesLarge Audio Language Models

  57. Towards Robust Generative Speech Enhancement Using Vector Quantisation-Based Neural Audio Codec

    Jun 15, 2026Haixin Zhao, Nilesh MadhuNeural Audio CodecsSpeech Enhancement

  58. Unified Audio Generation and Editing via Joint Condition Modeling and Progressive Training

    Jun 15, 2026Haocheng Dong, Yuheng Lu, Cheng Gong +3Music EditingWaveforms

  59. Rhythm of the Deep: Two-tier acoustic organization of sperm-whale codas from click waveforms to second-order sequence dependence

    Jun 15, 2026Mudit Sinha, Sanika ChavanAcoustic RepresentationSyntactic Structure

  60. Acoustic Prompting via Stage-wise Modulation for Few-Shot Learning in Audio Language Models

    Jun 14, 2026Hyebin Cho, Jaehyuk Jang, Changick Kim +1Audio EncodersSpeech Separation