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cs.SD2026

Audio Hallucination Attacks: Probing the Reliability of Large Audio Language Models

Ashish Seth, Sonal Kumar, Ramaneswaran Selvakumar +5

Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) achieve strong performance on audio-language tasks; however, their reliability in real-world settings remains underexplored. We introduce Audio…

cs.SD2026

TAC: Timestamped Audio Captioning

Sonal Kumar, Prem Seetharaman, Ke Chen +8

Large Audio Language Models struggle to disentangle overlapping events in complex acoustic scenes, yielding temporally inconsistent captions and frequent hallucinations. We introdu…

cs.AI2025

EGOILLUSION: Benchmarking Hallucinations in Egocentric Video Understanding

Ashish Seth, Utkarsh Tyagi, Ramaneswaran Selvakumar +6

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in complex multimodal tasks. While MLLMs excel at visual perception and reasoning in third-person…

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

Audio Flamingo 3: Advancing Audio Intelligence with Fully Open Large Audio Language Models

Arushi Goel, Sreyan Ghosh, Jaehyeon Kim +8

We present Audio Flamingo 3 (AF3), a fully open state-of-the-art (SOTA) large audio-language model that advances reasoning and understanding across speech, sound, and music. AF3 in…

cs.MM2025

MultiVox: A Benchmark for Evaluating Voice Assistants for Multimodal Interactions

Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, Ashish Seth, Nishit Anand +4

The rapid progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) has empowered omni models to act as voice assistants capable of understanding spoken dialogues. These models can process multimod…

cs.SD2025

Multi-Domain Audio Question Answering Benchmark Toward Acoustic Content Reasoning

Chao-Han Huck Yang, Sreyan Ghosh, Qing Wang +14

We present Task 5 of the DCASE 2025 Challenge: an Audio Question Answering (AQA) benchmark spanning multiple domains of sound understanding. This task defines three QA subsets (Bio…

eess.AS2025

ProSE: Diffusion Priors for Speech Enhancement

Sonal Kumar, Sreyan Ghosh, Utkarsh Tyagi +4

Speech enhancement (SE) is the foundational task of enhancing the clarity and quality of speech in the presence of non-stationary additive noise. While deterministic deep learning…

cs.SD2025

Audio Flamingo 2: An Audio-Language Model with Long-Audio Understanding and Expert Reasoning Abilities

Sreyan Ghosh, Zhifeng Kong, Sonal Kumar +6

Understanding and reasoning over non-speech sounds and music are crucial for both humans and AI agents to interact effectively with their environments. In this paper, we introduce…

cs.SD2024

SILA: Signal-to-Language Augmentation for Enhanced Control in Text-to-Audio Generation

Sonal Kumar, Prem Seetharaman, Justin Salamon +2

The field of text-to-audio generation has seen significant advancements, and yet the ability to finely control the acoustic characteristics of generated audio remains under-explore…

eess.AS2024

MMAU: A Massive Multi-Task Audio Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark

S Sakshi, Utkarsh Tyagi, Sonal Kumar +6

The ability to comprehend audio--which includes speech, non-speech sounds, and music--is crucial for AI agents to interact effectively with the world. We present MMAU, a novel benc…

cs.SD2024

PAT: Parameter-Free Audio-Text Aligner to Boost Zero-Shot Audio Classification

Ashish Seth, Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, Sonal Kumar +2

Audio-Language Models (ALMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in zero-shot audio classification. In this paper, we introduce PAT (Parameter-free Audio-Text aligner), a simp…

cs.SD2024

EH-MAM: Easy-to-Hard Masked Acoustic Modeling for Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning

Ashish Seth, Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, S Sakshi +3

In this paper, we present EH-MAM (Easy-to-Hard adaptive Masked Acoustic Modeling), a novel self-supervised learning approach for speech representation learning. In contrast to the…

cs.SD2024

Do Audio-Language Models Understand Linguistic Variations?

Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, Sonal Kumar, Hemant Kumar Giri +4

Open-vocabulary audio language models (ALMs), like Contrastive Language Audio Pretraining (CLAP), represent a promising new paradigm for audio-text retrieval using natural language…

eess.AS2024

Synthio: Augmenting Small-Scale Audio Classification Datasets with Synthetic Data

Sreyan Ghosh, Sonal Kumar, Zhifeng Kong +3

We present Synthio, a novel approach for augmenting small-scale audio classification datasets with synthetic data. Our goal is to improve audio classification accuracy with limited…

eess.AS2024

ReCLAP: Improving Zero Shot Audio Classification by Describing Sounds

Sreyan Ghosh, Sonal Kumar, Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru +3

Open-vocabulary audio-language models, like CLAP, offer a promising approach for zero-shot audio classification (ZSAC) by enabling classification with any arbitrary set of categori…

cs.SD2024

GAMA: A Large Audio-Language Model with Advanced Audio Understanding and Complex Reasoning Abilities

Sreyan Ghosh, Sonal Kumar, Ashish Seth +6

Perceiving and understanding non-speech sounds and non-verbal speech is essential to making decisions that help us interact with our surroundings. In this paper, we propose GAMA, a…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

LipGER: Visually-Conditioned Generative Error Correction for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition

Sreyan Ghosh, Sonal Kumar, Ashish Seth +4

Visual cues, like lip motion, have been shown to improve the performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems in noisy environments. We propose LipGER (Lip Motion aided Ge…

cs.CL2024

ABEX: Data Augmentation for Low-Resource NLU via Expanding Abstract Descriptions

Sreyan Ghosh, Utkarsh Tyagi, Sonal Kumar +4

We present ABEX, a novel and effective generative data augmentation methodology for low-resource Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks. ABEX is based on ABstract-and-EXpand, a…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Visual Description Grounding Reduces Hallucinations and Boosts Reasoning in LVLMs

Sreyan Ghosh, Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru, Sonal Kumar +4

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) often produce responses that misalign with factual information, a phenomenon known as hallucinations. While hallucinations are well-studied, th…

cs.CV2024

Do Vision-Language Models Understand Compound Nouns?

Sonal Kumar, Sreyan Ghosh, S Sakshi +2

Open-vocabulary vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP, trained using contrastive loss, have emerged as a promising new paradigm for text-to-image retrieval. However, do VLMs unde…

cs.CL2024

CoDa: Constrained Generation based Data Augmentation for Low-Resource NLP

Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru, Sreyan Ghosh, Sonal Kumar +3

We present CoDa (Constrained Generation based Data Augmentation), a controllable, effective, and training-free data augmentation technique for low-resource (data-scarce) NLP. Our a…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

A Closer Look at the Limitations of Instruction Tuning

Sreyan Ghosh, Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru, Sonal Kumar +5

Instruction Tuning (IT), the process of training large language models (LLMs) using instruction-response pairs, has emerged as the predominant method for transforming base pre-trai…

cs.SD2023★ 1 cited

AV-RIR: Audio-Visual Room Impulse Response Estimation

Anton Ratnarajah, Sreyan Ghosh, Sonal Kumar +2

Accurate estimation of Room Impulse Response (RIR), which captures an environment's acoustic properties, is important for speech processing and AR/VR applications. We propose AV-RI…