Evaluating Audio Reasoning with Big Bench Audio
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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.
The paper introduces TORUS, a closed‑loop benchmark designed to evaluate unified audio models on their ability to understand the audio they generate or edit. TORUS contains 1,053 questions across 21 tasks and 8 audio domain settings, covering all three audio types. The authors evaluate both unified models and cascades of specialized models, finding that the best unified models answer only about 52.4% of questions about their own outputs, while GPT‑Audio achieves 53.6%.
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