arXiv Machine Learning By Pooneh Mousavi, Lovenya Jain, Mirco Ravanelli, Cem Subakan

Investigating Faithfulness in Large Audio Language Models

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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.

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