ReasonAudio is a new benchmark designed to evaluate reasoning capabilities in text‑audio retrieval, addressing the gap left by existing semantic‑matching focused datasets. It tests four logical abilities—negation, temporal order, sound co‑occurrence, and sound duration—across five synthetic subtasks (1,000 queries over 10,000 composite clips) and one natural subtask (100 queries over 1,000 real‑world clips). Evaluation of 11 state‑of‑the‑art systems shows significant limitations, with the best model, OmniEmbed‑7B, scoring only 20.7 overall and 53.8% in a controlled setting, compared to 70.6% for its generative backbone and 95.6% for humans.
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:2602. 14612v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Answering natural-language questions over multi-hour audio requires both event recognition and temporal grounding.
arXiv:2510.11454v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advancements in large multimodal models (LMMs) have shown strong capabilities in audio understanding. However, most systems rely solel...
arXiv:2605.07593v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-world audio-visual understanding requires chaining evidence that is sparse, temporally dispersed, and split across the visual and auditory str...
arXiv:2509. 22363v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) integrate audio encoders with pretrained Large Language Models to perform complex multimodal reasoning tasks.
arXiv:2511. 05550v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large audio language models (LALMs) leverage multimodal representations to generate open-ended answers to natural language queries about audio.
SONIC‑O1 is a new benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal large language models on audio‑video understanding. It contains 60 hours of 231 clips across 13 real‑world conversational domains, with 4,958 human‑verified annotations and demographic metadata. The benchmark tests open‑ended summarization, multiple‑choice question answering, and temporally grounded reasoning, revealing performance gaps between model families and across demographic groups.
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...
arXiv:2606. 30682v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in language--audio retrieval have been largely driven by contrastive dual-encoder architectures that align audio and text in a shared embedding space.
arXiv:2609.22586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern audio-language models are no longer judged only on what words they can transcribe, but on whether they can reason over what they hear: recover...
arXiv:2608. 09435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding dynamic sound sources requires jointly determining what produces a sound, where the source is located, and how it moves over time.
LEAP is a framework for long audio‑video question answering that avoids encoding entire recordings by dividing them into fixed‑duration blocks. It performs a lightweight localization pass on each block to score short candidate windows, then pools the highest‑ranked windows for a single bounded answer pass, keeping the answer input and peak context independent of recording length. The method trains both a localization LoRA and an answer LoRA, supports causal streaming queries, and achieves significant performance gains over baseline models on multiple AVQA benchmarks.