arXiv:2607. 21550v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While large audio-language models have achieved remarkable progress in auditory perception, they still lag behind text-based large language models in deep logical reasoning, primarily due to the scarcity of high-quality audio reasoning data.
arXiv:2606. 14591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have shown strong performance on a wide range of audio understanding tasks, yet they still struggle with complex audio reasoning.
arXiv:2609.23589v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large audio-language models (LALMs) are increasingly used for a broader range of audio reasoning tasks. These models typically incorporate audio repr...
arXiv:2607. 05196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio intelligence involves understanding, reasoning about, and generating both audio and speech.
arXiv:2603. 24596v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While the shift from cascaded dialogue systems to end-to-end (E2E) speech Large Language Models (LLMs) improves latency and paralinguistic modeling, E2E models often exhibit a significant performance degradation compared to their text-based counterparts.
The paper introduces Echo-GRPO, a method that rewrites privileged reasoning traces into a model’s own idiolect to align off‑policy supervision with the student policy’s vocabulary. By preserving semantics through Dual‑Reference Decoding, Echo‑GRPO mitigates gradient clipping on critical reasoning tokens and improves reasoning distillation. The approach is instantiated as VideoEcho‑R1 for video reasoning, yielding consistent gains across multiple multimodal LLM backbones and benchmarks, and it can be applied as a plug‑in to both RL and supervised fine‑tuning frameworks.
arXiv:2609.37818v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Empathetic spoken dialogue requires models to use both what is said and how it is said to decide how to respond. Explicit CoT can improve paralinguis...
Audio intelligence involves understanding, reasoning about, and generating both audio and speech. In this work, we introduce Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B (Audex), a unified audio-text LLM built on Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B, a strong text-only MoE LLM.
arXiv:2603.02266v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Test-Time Scaling has shown notable efficacy in addressing complex problems through scaling inference compute. However, within Large Audio-La...
arXiv:2610.02181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present OmniSeek, an agentic framework that transforms an Omni Large Language Model (Omni-LLM) into an active, multi-turn reasoning agent with nativ...
Spoken language models (SLMs) enable natural human-computer interaction, but their reasoning ability still lags behind that of text-based large language models, especially on spoken mathematical question answering tasks. One important reason is that SLMs reason over purely verbalized mathematical expressions, which are harder to interpret than symbolic text.
The paper introduces Reward‑Tilted On‑Policy Distillation (RT‑OPD), a method that enhances acoustic grounding in audio‑language models by using a frozen teacher to generate a reward based on the contrast between token predictions with and without audio. This reward reshapes the teacher distribution for reverse‑KL distillation, encouraging students to rely more on acoustic evidence. Experiments on two compact students across three benchmarks show that RT‑OPD consistently outperforms vanilla OPD, and a 3B model trained with RT‑OPD achieves 72.72% accuracy on the MMAU benchmark, surpassing other 3B models and rivaling larger 7B and 8B models.
OP-CAD introduces a curriculum-based, on-policy clean-audio distillation framework that enhances audio-visual reasoning under environmental noise and competing speech. The method trains a student model from mild to severe noise, using a frozen teacher that provides token-level supervision based on clean audio and verified answers, while selectively weighting positions sensitive to acoustic interference. Experiments show OP‑CAD outperforms existing methods across all noise conditions, preserving clean‑correct answers without sacrificing overall accuracy.