arXiv Machine Learning

X$^3$-OPD: Distilling Reasoning into Large Audio-Language Models via On-Policy Alignment

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 AI
Jul 7

Unified Audio Intelligence Without Regressing on Text Intelligence

arXiv:2607. 05196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio intelligence involves understanding, reasoning about, and generating both audio and speech.

By Zhifeng Kong, Sang-gil Lee, Jaehyeon Kim, Boxin Wang, Zihan Liu, Sungwon Kim, Yang Chen, Arushi Goel, Rajarshi Roy, Wenliang Dai, Zhuolin Yang, Yangyi Chen, Dongfu Jiang, Sreyan Ghosh, Tuomas Rintamaki, Andrew Tao, Jonathan Raiman, Mohammad Shoeybi, Bryan Catanzaro, Wei Ping
arXiv AI
Jun 15

X-OPD: Cross-Modal On-Policy Distillation for Capability Alignment in Speech LLMs

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.

By Di Cao, Dongjie Fu, Hai Yu, Siqi Zheng, Xu Tan, Tao Jin
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 22

Efficient Chain-of-Modality Reasoning via Progressive Compression for Spoken Language Models

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.

arXiv AI
Aug 10

MetaSICL: Globalizing Auditory LLMs for Underserved Speakers and Languages via Meta Speech In-Context Learning

arXiv:2601. 18904v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative AI for speech and audio is increasingly expected to serve users across languages, cultures, and communities, yet current auditory Large Language Models (LLMs) are still largely trained and evaluated on high-resource data.

By Haolong Zheng, Siyin Wang, Zengrui Jin, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 24

From Sounds to Scenes: A Benchmark for Evaluating Context-Aware Auditory Scene Understanding in Large Audio Language Models

Recent Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) have achieved remarkable progress in audio perceptual tasks across individual acoustic layers, including speech, sound, and music. However, existing benchmarks predominantly evaluate these layers in isolation, overlooking the complex contextual relationships that arise when multiple acoustic sources co-occur in real-world auditory scenes.

arXiv AI
Jun 2

MOSS-Audio Technical Report

arXiv:2606. 01802v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: MOSS-Audio is a unified audio-language model for speech, environmental sound, and music understanding, supporting audio captioning, time-aware question answering, timestamped transcription, and audio-grounded reasoning.

By Chen Yang, Chufan Yu, Hanfu Chen, Jie Zhu, Jingqi Chen, Ke Chen, Wenxuan Wang, Yang Wang, Yaozhou Jiang, Yi Jiang, Zhengyuan Lin, Ziqi Chen, Zhaoye Fei, Chenghao Liu, Jun Zhan, Kang Yu, Kexin Huang, Mingshu Chen, Qinyuan Cheng, Ruixiao Li, Shimin Li, Songlin Wang, Yang Gao, Yiyang Zhang, Xipeng Qiu