arXiv Machine Learning June 16, 2026 By Hyebin Cho, Jaehyuk Jang, Changick Kim, Joon Son Chung

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

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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.

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