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

arXiv:2606. 31587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-Language Models (ALMs) achieve strong zero-shot performance by aligning audio with textual class descriptions.

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

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

arXiv:2606. 15751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-Language Models (ALMs) have shown remarkable success in zero-shot audio classification by aligning audio waveforms with text.

By Hyebin Cho, Jaehyuk Jang, Changick Kim, Joon Son Chung

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arXiv AI

Jun 9

Audio-FLAN: An Instruction-Following Dataset for Unified Audio Understanding and Generation of Speech, Music, and Sound

arXiv:2502. 16584v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advancements in audio tokenization have significantly enhanced the integration of audio capabilities into large language models (LLMs).

By Liumeng Xue, Ziya Zhou, Jiahao Pan, Zixuan Li, Shuai Fan, Yinghao Ma, Sitong Cheng, Dongchao Yang, Haohan Guo, Yujia Xiao, Xinsheng Wang, Zixuan Shen, Chuanbo Zhu, Xinshen Zhang, Tianchi Liu, Ruibin Yuan, Zeyue Tian, Haohe Liu, Xingjian Du, Emmanouil Benetos, Ge Zhang, Yike Guo, Wei Xue

llms nlp fine-tuning

arXiv AI

Jun 6

Scaling few-shot spoken word classification with generative meta-continual learning

arXiv:2605. 13075v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Few-shot spoken word classification has largely been developed for applications where a small number of classes is considered, and so the potential of larger-scale few-shot spoken word classification remains untapped.

By Louise Beyers, Batsirayi Mupamhi Ziki, Ruan van der Merwe

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 8

Making the Most of Limited Data: Score-Aware Training for Text-to-Music Generation

arXiv:2606. 07387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State-of-the-art text-to-music generation systems rely on massive proprietary datasets and industrial-scale compute, making it impossible to disentangle architectural contributions from resource advantages.

By Yun-Chen Cheng, Tzu-Hung Huang, Chih-Pin Tan

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arXiv AI

Jul 1

Revisiting Audio-language Pretraining for Learning General-purpose Audio Representation

arXiv:2511. 16757v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Audio-language pretraining (ALP) holds promise for learning general-purpose audio representation, yet remains underexplored.

By Wei-Cheng Tseng, Xuanru Zhou, Mingyue Huo, Yiwen Shao, Hao Zhang, Dong Yu

llms

arXiv AI

Jun 4

SpurAudio: A Benchmark for Studying Shortcut Learning in Few-Shot Audio Classification

arXiv:2605. 13672v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Few-shot classification (FSC) is widely used for learning from limited labeled data, yet most evaluations implicitly assume that target concepts are independent of contextual cues.

By Giries Abu Ayoub, Morad Tukan, Loay Mualem

computer-vision benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jun 9

Few-shot Class-variable Incremental Audio Classification via Prototype Adaptation and Pseudo Class-variable Training

arXiv:2606. 08898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the task of few-shot class-incremental audio classification, the number of classes is assumed to always increase without considering the possibility of decrease.

By Yanxiong Li, Guoqing Chen, Qianqian Li, Sen Huang

arXiv AI

Jun 3

FSA-GRPO: Teaching Auditory LLMs to Use Few-shot Demonstrations

arXiv:2606. 02615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Few-shot prompting provides an effective way to adapt auditory large language models to low-resource tasks such as children's speech recognition.

By Haolong Zheng, Siyin Wang, Xulin Fan, Zengrui Jin, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

llms reinforcement-learning multimodal

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 2

AdaBoosting Text Prompts for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2607. 00684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The classification accuracy of pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) relies on the quality of the text prompts.

By Seokhee Jin, Changhwan Sung, Sunung Mun, Hoyoung Kim, Jungseul Ok

llms multimodal benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 3

Few-Shot Open-Set Audio Classification Using Attention Information-Fused Prototypes

arXiv:2607. 01297v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most existing audio classification methods suppose that each query (testing) sample belongs to a class of support (training) samples, and misrecognize samples of unseen classes as seen classes (cannot reject samples of unseen classes).

By Yanxiong Li, Jiaxin Tan, Qianqian Li, Guoqing Chen, Sen Huang, Tuomas Virtanen

rag

arXiv AI

Jun 26

VoiceTTA: Enhancing Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech via Reinforcement Learning-Based Test-Time Adaptation

arXiv:2606. 26534v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) has enabled high-fidelity and expressive speech synthesis, but it often fails to imitate unseen speaking styles from uncommon scenarios (e.

By Tianxin Xie, Chenxing Li, Dong Yu, Li Liu

diffusion reinforcement-learning fine-tuning multimodal benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jul 14

MUGEN: Evaluating and Improving Multi-audio Understanding of Large Audio-Language Models

arXiv:2603. 09714v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While multi-audio understanding is critical for large audio-language models (LALMs), it remains underexplored.

By Chih-Kai Yang, Yun-Shao Tsai, Yu-Kai Guo, Ping-Le Tsai, Yen-Ting Piao, Hung-Wei Chen, Ting-Lin Hsiao, Yun-Man Hsu, Ke-Han Lu, Hung-yi Lee

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