Audio intelligence involves understanding, reasoning about, and generating both audio and speech. In this work, we introduce Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B (Audex), a unified audio-text LLM built on Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B, a strong text-only MoE LLM.
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
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.
By Hui Geng, Yi Su, Han Yin, Tianjiao Wan, Qisheng Xu, Jiaxin Chen, Zijian Gao, Hengzhu Liu, Xie Chen, Kele Xu
arXiv:2605. 29948v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unified speech foundation models require a holistic tokenization space that is both learnable by language models and decodable into high-quality waveforms.
By Bohan Li, Shi Lian, Hankun Wang, Yiwei Guo, Yu Xi, Zhihan Li, Da Zheng, Colin Zhang, Kai Yu
arXiv:2607. 21550v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While large audio-language models have achieved remarkable progress in auditory perception, they still lag behind text-based large language models in deep logical reasoning, primarily due to the scarcity of high-quality audio reasoning data.
By Dongjie Fu, Di Cao, Xize Cheng, Zihan Zhang, Wenxu Jia, Yifu Chen, Shengpeng Ji, Yu Zhang, Tao Jin
arXiv:2603. 05299v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models show that simple autoregressive training can yield scalable and coherent generation, but extending this paradigm to speech remains challenging due to the entanglement of semantic and acoustic information.
By Luca Della Libera, Cem Subakan, Mirco Ravanelli