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cs.SD2026

OpenBEATs: A Fully Open-Source General-Purpose Audio Encoder

Shikhar Bharadwaj, Samuele Cornell, Kwanghee Choi +4

OpenBEATs is an open-source framework that extends the BEATs audio encoder with multi-domain masked-token pretraining, achieving state-of-the-art results on a wide range of audio t…

cs.SD2026

The CMU-AIST submission for the ICME 2025 Audio Encoder Challenge

Shikhar Bharadwaj, Samuele Cornell, Kwanghee Choi +4

This technical report describes our submission to the ICME 2025 audio encoder challenge. Our submitted system is built on BEATs, a masked speech token prediction based audio encode…

eess.AS2025

AURA Score: A Metric For Holistic Audio Question Answering Evaluation

Satvik Dixit, Soham Deshmukh, Bhiksha Raj

Audio Question Answering (AQA) is a key task for evaluating Audio-Language Models (ALMs), yet assessing open-ended responses remains challenging. Existing metrics used for AQA such…

cs.CL2025

CoLMbo: Speaker Language Model for Descriptive Profiling

Massa Baali, Shuo Han, Syed Abdul Hannan +5

Speaker recognition systems are often limited to classification tasks and struggle to generate detailed speaker characteristics or provide context-rich descriptions. These models p…

eess.AS2025

MMAU-Pro: A Challenging and Comprehensive Benchmark for Holistic Evaluation of Audio General Intelligence

Sonal Kumar, Šimon Sedláček, Vaibhavi Lokegaonkar +31

Audio comprehension-including speech, non-speech sounds, and music-is essential for achieving human-level intelligence. Consequently, AI agents must demonstrate holistic audio unde…

cs.SD2025

Mellow: a small audio language model for reasoning

Soham Deshmukh, Satvik Dixit, Rita Singh +1

Multimodal Audio-Language Models (ALMs) can understand and reason over both audio and text. Typically, reasoning performance correlates with model size, with the best results achie…