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eess.AS2026

The Sound of Absence: Audio-Language Embedding Models Struggle with Negation

Chun-Yi Kuan, Hung-yi Lee

The paper reveals that audio-language embedding models like CLAP cannot distinguish between present and absent sound events, showing they treat negated captions similarly to affirm…

cs.SD2026

Steering Where to Listen: Instruction-Based Activation Steering Redirects Temporal Attention in Large Audio-Language Models

Tsung-En Lin, Hung-Yi Lee

Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) excel at audio understanding but expose little about where in an audio signal they attend. We introduce instruction-based vector steering, which…

eess.AS2026

AQUA-Bench: Beyond Finding Answers to Knowing When There Are None in Audio Question Answering

Chun-Yi Kuan, Hung-yi Lee

Recent advances in audio-aware large language models have shown strong performance on audio question answering. However, existing benchmarks mainly cover answerable questions and o…

cs.CL2026

Speech-FT: Merging Pre-trained And Fine-Tuned Speech Representation Models For Cross-Task Generalization

Tzu-Quan Lin, Wei-Ping Huang, Hao Tang +1

Fine-tuning speech representation models can enhance performance on specific tasks but often compromises their cross-task generalization ability. This degradation is often caused b…

eess.AS2026

AQAScore: Evaluating Semantic Alignment in Text-to-Audio Generation via Audio Question Answering

Chun-Yi Kuan, Kai-Wei Chang, Hung-yi Lee

Although text-to-audio generation has made remarkable progress in realism and diversity, the development of evaluation metrics has not kept pace. Widely-adopted approaches, typical…

eess.AS2026

From Alignment to Advancement: Bootstrapping Audio-Language Alignment with Synthetic Data

Chun-Yi Kuan, Hung-yi Lee

Audio-aware large language models (ALLMs) have recently made great strides in understanding and processing audio inputs. These models are typically adapted from text-based large la…